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* Board rejects moderate candidates -papers
* Restrictions on Montazeri lifted - paper
* Petition: Call for U.S. grain sales to Iran
* UN to open anti-drugs office in Iran
* More intelligence agents arrested
* Speaker opposes ``enemy'' U.S. wheat
* Iran demands U.S. apology over stray missile
* Iran, U.N. sign accord on fighting drugs
* Taleban says ready for talks with Iran
* President calls on police to prevent ``chaos''
* Iran cuts defence spending to under $1 billion
* Iran-Ireland economic commission begins work
* Iran accused of bio-weapons program
* Iran condemns U.S. air attacks on Iraq
* Bahrain's new envoy takes up post in Iran
* "Khordad" bombed
* Rial loses 10 percent of value
* BP Amoco confirms big Iran oil proposal
* Talks about death row businesman
* Stray missile "lands in Abadan"
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Friday
January 29, 1999
* Local elections spark new rift within regime
TEHRAN, Jan 29 (AFP) - Preparations for Iran's first ever municipal
elections next month sparked a new rift Friday between the government of
moderate President Mohammed Khatami and his conservative opponents. Interior
Minister Abdolvahab Mussavi-Lari slammed the conservative- dominated Supervision
Council for rejecting "a significant number of candidates" for
the elections due on February 26 ... FULL
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* U.S., Russia tackle Iran
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Vice President Al Gore urged the Russian
prime minister met privately to discuss arms technology transfers. The
United States has imposed sanctions on three Russian scientific institutions
which, it says, helped Iran develop weapons. The United States says the
question of Russia's ability to control the flow of rocket technology to
Iran could hurt future collaboration in space. Russia, which denies the
accusation and has criticized the U.S. sanctions, also warned that the
sanctions could damage relations ... FULL
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Thursday
January 28, 1999
* Board rejects moderate candidates -papers
TEHRAN, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A conservative screening board has barred
several prominent moderate backers of President Mohammad Khatami from running
in Iran's first nationwide local elections next month, newspapers said
on Wednesday. The daily Salam said Abdollah Nouri, a key Khatami ally and
former interior minister, moderate newspaper editor Saeid Hajjarian and
pro-Khatami student leader Ebrahim Asgharzadeh were among about 50 Tehran
candidates rejected by the board dominated by the president's opponents
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* Restrictions on Montazeri lifted - paper
TEHRAN (Jan. 28) XINHUA - Iranian authorities have decided to lift restrictions
on Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, the disgraced designate successor of
the late Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Musavi Khomeini. An Iranian daily
Tehran Times reported on Thursday that an informed source revealed the
decision to it, but did not give details of and the reasons for the decision
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* Petition: Call for U.S. grain sales to Iran
(Iranians for International Cooperation) - URGENT ACTION: Support Senator
Craig's initiative to persuade the U.S. Treasury Department to permit grain
exports to Iran. Permitting sales of food commodities to Iran is an excellent
way to both relieve hardworking US farmers from depressed earnings and
open up healthy economic ties with our former ally Iran ... FULL TEXT
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* UN to open anti-drugs office in Iran
Jan 28, (BBC) - The United Nations Drugs Control programme UNDP is to
set up an office in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to help fight drug trafficking
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Wednesday
January 27, 1999
* More intelligence agents arrested
TEHRAN, Jan 27 (AFP) - Iran's intelligence ministry said Wednesday it
had arrested several of its agents, accusing them of clandestinely distributing
political leaflets. "Several agents who were involved in distributing
underground letters and counterfeit documents have been arrested and handed
over to the judiciary," an unnamed intelligence official said, quoted
by the official IRNA news agency ... FULL
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* Iran assembly speaker opposes ``enemy'' U.S. wheat
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's conservative parliament speaker Wednesday
opposed any imports of U.S. wheat, saying Tehran should not become dependent
on its arch-enemy. But Iran's Foreign Minister referred to the possible
imports as a sign that U.S. sanctions against Iran had failed. They were
reacting to reports that U.S. officials were considering a sanction waiver
allowing $500 million of U.S. farm goods to be exported to Iran ...
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* Iran demands U.S. apology over stray missile
TEHRAN, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday demanded an apology and
compensation from the United States over a missile which hit an Iranian
city this week after apparently going astray during a U.S.-led strike on
neighbouring Iraq. ``America must apologise to compensate for the violation
of the airspace of the Islamic Republic of Iran,'' said Foreign Minister
Kamal Kharrazi, quoted by Tehran radio. ``Iranian public opinion...will
not allow such violations of Iran's airspace by foreigners, and Iran's
armed forces will surely defend the country against any aggression,'' he
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* Iran, U.N. sign accord on fighting drugs
TEHRAN, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Iran and the United Nations have signed an
accord on fighting drug smuggling, the official Iranian news agency IRNA
reported on Tuesday. It said that under the accord -- signed between Iran
and the U.N. International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) in Tehran --
the United Nations will set up an office in Tehran for the first time for
the drug campaign programme ... FULL
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* Taleban says ready for talks with Iran
KABUL, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban movement said on Wednesday
it was prepared to hold talks with neighbouring Iran to try to end disputes
between the countries ``The foreign ministry of the Islamic Emirate (of
Afghanistan) while welcoming any positive step in improving relations with
the Islamic Republic of Iran, announces its full readiness for holding
talks with Iranian authorities for solving all of the contentious issues,''
a statement from the Taleban's foreign ministry said ... FULL
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Tuesday
January 26, 1999
* President calls on police to prevent ``chaos''
TEHRAN, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday
called on the country's police to curb disorder after a bomb damaged the
offices of an outspoken moderate newspaper. ``We cannot allow social disorder.
We should protect the rights of everyone who works within the framework
of laws,'' the official news agency IRNA quoted the moderate Khatami as
telling a gathering of police officials ... FULL
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* Iran cuts defence spending to under $1 billion
TEHRAN, Jan 26 (AFP) - With plunging oil prices provoking a serious
economic crisis, Iran has slightly cut its defence budgetfor the next fiscal
year beginning March 21, papers here reportedTuesday. Parliament approved
government proposals for a military budget of 2,800 billion rial -- about
933 million dollars at the official3,000 rial to the dollar exchange rate
-- against 2,900 billion (966million dollars) for the current year ...
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* Iran-Ireland economic commission begins work
Tehran, Jan. 26, IRNA - the 3rd session of iran-ireland joint economic
commission began work here tuesday. iranian foreign minister kamal kharrazi
and irish foreign minister david andrews led their respective countries'
delegations to the session ... FULL
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* Iran accused of bio-weapons program
January 26 , WASHINGTON (AP) -- Iran's opposition in exile accused President
Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday of accelerating development of a secret biological
weapons program despite his country's ratification of the biological weapons
treaty. The National Council of Resistance of Iran, the Mujahedeen, described
four government centers it said are involved in biological weapons development
and six biological research centers. It said Russian, Ukrainian and other
former Soviet scientists have been working at some of the facilities ...
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* Iran condemns U.S. air attacks on Iraq
TEHRAN, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday condemned Monday's U.S. air
attack on neighbouring Iraq, saying it had exacerbated tensions in the
region. The official news agency IRNA said a foreign ministry spokesman
``condemned the recent attack by American aircraft on Iraq which killed
a number of civilians and destroyed residential districts.'' He also expressed
concern over ``the heightening of tension in the region which is due to
America's military moves in Iraq.'' ... FULL
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* Bahrain's new envoy takes up post in Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Bahrain's new ambassador to Iran presented
his credentials to the Iranian president on Tuesday, more than two years
after the two countries downgraded ties over an alleged pro-Iranian plot
to topple Bahrain's government. The official Iranian news agency IRNA said
President Mohammad Khatami told the new ambassador that Iran and Bahrain
shared common security concerns ``and this will help promote and strengthen
their links.'' ... FULL
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Monday
January 25, 1999
* Explosion at "Khordad" newspaper office
Jan 25, (BBC) - An Iranian newspaper renowned for its outspoken criticism
of the conservative clergy has been attacked by unidentified assailants.
The official news agency said two men on a motorobike threw a stun grenade
at the newspaper's offices in Tehran, shattering windows and slightly injuring
two reporters ... FULL
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* Rial loses 10 percent of value
TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - The Iranian rial continued to plunge against
major foreign currencies on Monday, losing around 10 percent of its value
in the past two days. The rial which was trading on the illegal open market
at 7,200 to the dollar on Saturday, slumped to 7,500 on Sunday and dropped
further to 7,900 on Monday ... FULL
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* BP Amoco confirms big Iran oil proposal
LONDON, Jan 25 (Reuters) - BP Amoco has confirmed that it has submitted
a technical proposal to the National Iranian Oil Company for one of the
largest fields on offer in an Iranian international tender. ``We have submitted
a technical proposal for the long-term development of the Bangestan reservoir,''
a company spokesman said on Monday ... FULL
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* Germany talks to Iran about death row businesman
BONN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Germany said on Monday it was holding high-level
talks with Iran to try to win the release of a German businessman who faces
the death penalty for having had sexual relations with an Iranian student.
Chancellery Minister Bodo Hombach has been holding talks with Iranian officials
since November about Helmut Hofer and he may visit Tehran in February if
the improvement in bilateral relations continues, the government said ...
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* Stray missile lands in Iranian city - television
TEHRAN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - A stray missile fired in U.S.-led attacks
against Iraq on Monday landed in Iranian territory, Iran's state television
reported. The governor of the city of Abadan in southwestern Iran told
the television that the missile landed inside the oil city but there were
no casualties ... FULL
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