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Nov 2-6, 1998 / Aban 11-15, 1377
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* Iran press gleeful over D'Amato defeat
* Russia sees catastrophic drop in Caspian sturgeon
* No progress on Afghanistan until Pakistan, Iran cooperate:
UN
* Rafsanjani urges liberal transplant rules in Iran
* Iran's foreign minister leaves for Saudi visit
* Iran appoints new ambassador to Italy
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* Iran's first private
news agency gets licence
* Khodadad Azizi eliminated from national team?
* Iran to sell draft exemptions for $1,700 and up
* U.S. govt rejects Iran oil deal, signals tough stance
* U.N. investigator ``horrified'' by Taleban violations
* Home agenda usurps ``Great Satan'' in Iran
* 2001 to be U.N. Year of Dialogue among civilizations
* Khatami reaches toward Americans
* 19-year-olds on what happened
19 years ago
* Anti-U.S. rally marks hostage crisis
* Iran to award Caspian pipeline tender by end November
* Palestinians, Iran in war of words
* Skoda says Czech-Iran tension to hit sales
* Khamenei rejects U.S. ties
* Iran recalls Prague envoy over U.S. radio launch
* France confirms Khatami visit, date to be set
* Palestinian police say Iran funds Hamas attacks
* Khamenei rejects U.S. ties
* Iran recalls Prague envoy over U.S. radio launch
* France confirms Khatami visit, date to be set
* Palestinian police say Iran funds Hamas attacks
* Iran Islamist students offer olive branch to U.S.
* Khatami to visit France - newspaper
* Iran hits mock enemy to end Afghan border war games
* Iran's Kharrazi to visit Saudi this week - envoy
* Iran says best route for Caspian oil
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Friday
Nov 6, 1998
* Iran press gleeful over D'Amato defeat
TEHRAN, Nov 5 (AFP) -Iran's press gloated on Thursday over the defeat
in US congressional elections of New York senator Alfonso D'Amato, who
is reviled here as the architect of the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act. "Irrational
and pro-Zionist Republican Senator D'Amato faced a humiliating defeat.
He unsuccessfuly tried to isolate Iran through an infamous law," said
the conservative Tehran Times... FULL
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* Russia sees catastrophic drop in Caspian sturgeon
MOSCOW, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Stocks of caviar-producing sturgeon in the
Caspian Sea are falling ``catastrophically,'' victims of over-fishing,
poaching and pollution, Russian officials said on Friday. Russia's quota
for sturgeon catches in the Caspian is expected to fall next year to 700
tonnes from 1,200 tonnes this year, Interfax news agency quoted the state
fisheries committee as saying... FULL
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* No progress on Afghanistan until Pakistan, Iran cooperate: UN
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 (AFP) -No progress can be made in resolving the
Afghan conflict until Afghanistan's neighbours, Iran and Pakistan, decide
to cooperate, the UN special representative said Thursday... FULL TEXT
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* Rafsanjani urges liberal transplant rules in Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
on Friday urged the adoption of more liberal laws on organ transplants
in Iran, saying Islam did not oppose the procedure. ``Parliament's refusal
to pass a law (allowing transplants) a few years ago has caused problems
for some doctors,'' said Rafsanjani, who now heads a top state body, in
a prayer sermon carried by Tehran radio. Rafsanjani did not elaborate,
but physicians say they could face prosecution if they perform some transplants
because of unclear guidelines... FULL
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* Iran's foreign minister leaves for Saudi visit
TEHRAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi left
for Saudi Arabia on Friday for talks expected to include Iran's row with
the Afghan Taleban. Kharrazi, who last visited the Kingdom in June, will
discuss boosting bilateral cooperation and regional and international issues
with his Saudi counterpart and other senior officials during the two-day
visit, IRNA added... FULL
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* Iran appoints new ambassador to Italy
TEHRAN, Nov 3 (AFP) - Iran has appointed its former ambassador to France,
Ali Ahani, as its new envoy to Italy, the foreign ministry announced Tuesday.
Ahani has also been director general for Euro-American, Asia-Pacific and
West European affairs in the foreign ministry, the official IRNA news agency
said. He replaces Homayoun Zadeh.
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Thursday
Nov 5, 1998
* Iran's first private news agency gets licence
TEHRAN, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The Iranian government
has granted a licence for the country's first private news agency, Iranian
television said on Thursday. Fars News Agency, named after a province which
was a cradle of Iranian civilisation, will be launched by next March, the
television quoted the agency's head as saying... FULL
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* Khodadad Azizi eliminated from national team?
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - The man who took Iran to its first World Cup soccer
games in 20 years with a last minute goal against Australia has apparently
been left out of the new national team lineup ... FULL
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* Iran to sell draft exemptions for $1,700 and up
TEHRAN, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Iran has put a price tag on mandatory military
service, allowing young men to buy their way out of a 21-month hitch in
the army for $1,700 and up. Under rules approved by the government, exemption
fees ranged from 11.5 million rials ($3,800 at the official exchange rate)
for those without high school degrees to about three times that for doctorate
holders, the daily Resalat said on Wednesday... FULL
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* U.S. govt rejects Iran oil deal, signals tough stance
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has rejected one of
two requests it was considering from American companies looking for permission
to do oil-swap deals with Iran. The rejection -- together with remarks
earlier this week by President Clinton's advisor on Caspian energy policy
in which he said such oil-swap deals might detour oil from the U.S.'s preferred
trade route via Azerbaijan and Turkey -- suggests the administration's
policy is still firmly against allowing U.S. companies to deal with Iran
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* U.N. investigator ``horrified'' by Taleban violations
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights investigator said
on Thursday he was ``horrified'' by the latest reports from Afghanistan,
where thousands of people were said to have been killed when Taleban forces
captured the areas of Mazar-i-Sharif and Bamiyan. ``The scale of violations
in Afghanistan and suffering of the civilian population warrants the urgent
attention of the world community,'' said Choong-Hyun Paik of South Korea,
a special rapporteur for the U.N. Human Rights Commission ... FULL
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* Home agenda usurps ``Great Satan'' in Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Iranians revelled in anti-U.S. rhetoric this
week but the ritual chants of ``Death to America'' can no longer drown
out the swelling drumbeat of political warfare closer to home. ``The Iranian
nation still considers the arrogant government of America its number one
enemy,'' declared an official rally proclamation. But take a closer look,
say analysts, and what was once an article of faith of the Islamic revolution
has given way to a struggle for the future of the revolution itself...
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Wednesday
Nov 4, 1998
* 2001 to be U.N. Year of Dialogue among civilizations
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The General Assembly decided on Wednesday,
on the initiative of Iran, to designate 2001 as the U.N. Year of Dialogue
among Civilisations. A resolution sponsored by some 50 countries and adopted
by consensus invited governments, the U.N. system and other organisations
to arrange appropriate cultural, educational and social programmes ...
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* Khatami reaches toward Americans
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami Wednesday
used the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy to renew
his message of reconciliation with the American people. But he charged
that U.S. policymakers had failed to heed the call of public opinion backing
a restoration of ties between the two countries. ``What happened in Iran
was not a fight against the American people, but against anti-Iranian policies,''
Khatami, a moderate Shi'ite Muslim cleric, told students at a new girls'
school... FULL
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* 19-year-olds on what happened 19 years ago
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Hamshahri has interviewed
several young students who took part in Monday's relatively mild anti-American
demonstration in front of the U.S. embassy... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Anti-U.S. rally marks hostage crisis
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians gathered Wednesday at the gates
of the former U.S. embassy for an annual rally against the ``arrogant''
policies of the ``Great Satan.'' Schoolchildren bussed in for the official
event swelled the crowd in central Tehran, marking the 19th anniversary
of the embassy takeover by militant Islamic students who held 52 Americans
hostage for more than a year. Some of the young people wore military fatigues
while others sported green-and-red headbands emblazoned with the Moslem
rallying cry of ``Allahu Akbar'' (God is Greatest)... FULL
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* Iran to award Caspian pipeline tender by end November
LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Iran will award its tender to build a new
pipeline from the Caspian Sea to its northern refineries by the end of
November, Deputy Minister for Caspian Oil and Gas Affairs Ali Majedi told
Reuters on Wednesday. ``We have had 13 proposals including submissions
from Chinese, Italian and German companies and we are going to make a decision
this month,'' he said on the fringe of an industry conference ... FULL
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* Palestinians, Iran in war of words
JERUSALEM, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The new U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian
interim peace deal has sparked a war of words between the Palestinian Authority
(PA) and Iran. But analysts said an exchange of insults between Iran and
the Palestinian Authority since the deal was signed has as much to do with
the domestic politics of both sides as with their radically different approaches
to peace moves with Israel... FULL
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* Skoda says Czech-Iran tension to hit sales
PRAGUE, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Troubled Czech engineering group Skoda a.s.
said on Wednesday that diplomatic tension between the Czech Republic and
Iran may cost it a direct sales loss of up to two billion Czech crowns
($68.47 million). Iran recalled its ambassador from the Czech Republic
on Tuesday and has limited trade ties to protest against a new Farsi-language
service of U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to the Islamic republic
from Prague... FULL
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Tuesday
Nov 3, 1998
* Khamenei rejects U.S. ties
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled
out Tuesday any normalization with the United States, saying no ties with
Washington ``benefits the Iranian people 100 percent.'' ``(Western) propaganda
feeds rumors to the effect that the break in relations between Iran and
America's government is detrimental to the Iranian people. No sir, it benefits
the Iranian people 100 percent,'' Khamenei said in a speech marking the
1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran... FULL
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* Iran recalls Prague envoy over U.S. radio launch
TEHRAN, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Iran has recalled its ambassador from the
Czech Republic and reduced trade contacts in protest against U.S.-funded
radio broadcasts to the Islamic republic from Prague, Tehran radio reported
on Tuesday. It quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Mahmoud Mohammadi as saying
the Czech Republic had ``backed hostile action by America'' by hosting
the new Persian-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),
based in Prague... FULL
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* France confirms Khatami visit, date to be set
PARIS, Nov 3 (Reuters) - France on Tuesday confirmed press reports that
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami planned to visit France but said the
date had yet to be set. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret
said Tehran authorities had confirmed Khatami accepted an invitation extended
by French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine when he visited Tehran last August...
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* Palestinian police say Iran funds Hamas attacks
GAZA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Palestinian police chief Ghazi al-Jabali said
on Monday an Iranian-backed wing of the Islamic militant group Hamas was
responsible for a car suicide bombing that narrowly missed a busload of
schoolchildren in Gaza. A leader of the political wing of Hamas has denied
the group had anything to do with the attack... FULL
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Monday
November 2, 1998
* Iran Islamist students offer olive branch to U.S.
TEHRAN, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Iran's biggest student movement, heirs to
the activists who seized the U.S. embassy 19 years ago, marked the takeover
on Monday with an unprecedented show of conciliation towards the ``Great
Satan.'' ``In the heat of revolutionary fervour things happen that cannot
be fully contained,'' read one banner -- tantalisingly close to an apology
to a country still routinely denounced as the Great Satan... FULL
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* Khatami to visit France - newspaper
PARIS, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami plans to
visit France in February, his first visit to a European country since being
elected in 1997, the newspaper Le Monde said on Monday. The daily said
it was told of Khatami's plans by Iran's new ambassador to France Ali Reza
Moayeri, who retains his status as a special presidential adviser despite
his posting abroad. The Iranian embassy was not immediately available for
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* Iran hits mock enemy to end Afghan border war games
TEHRAN, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Some 200,000 Iranian troops staged a final
attack against a mock enemy on Monday at the end of war games near the
tense Afghan border, Iran's state media reported. Iranian television showed
infantry forces and tanks advancing after air force bombers and an artillery
and missile barrage softened up ``enemy'' positions... FULL
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* Kharrazi to visit Saudi this week - envoy
DUBAI, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi is to
visit Saudi Arabia this week, the latest of several visits between the
countries as relations have warmed. Iran's ambassador to Saudi Arabia,
Mohammed Reza Nouri, said on Monday that Kharrazi would arrive in Jeddah
on Thursday from where he would make a pilgrimage before going to Riyadh
two days later to meet King Fahd and other senior officials ... FULL
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* Iran says best route for Caspian oil
CAPE TOWN, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Iran on Saturday renewed its claim to
be the best export route for Caspian oil and gas, saying sanctions were
delaying regional energy development by promoting unviable pipeline routes.
``All sanctions on crude oil swaps, investments and political considerations
on pipelines should be cleared so that the region could realise all its
potentials,'' said Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh ... FULL
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