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Nov 23-27, 1998 / Azar 2-6, 1377
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* Norway to send ambassador
back to Iran
* Iranian intellectual dies in suspicious circumstances
* Dissident clergyman released in Iran
* Iran talks about American attack
* Militants back attack on Americans
* Iran's 'Basij' forces in political storm
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* Iran arrests suspects over dissident murders
* Iran says will punish killers of opposition veteran
* Iran vows to bring bus
attackers to justice
* Iran marchers condemn visit by U.S. citizens
* Khatami says freedom is vital to Islamic Iran
* Iran says Afghan Taleban free last Iranian captive
* Khatami orders action on dissident killings
* Murder report
* Russia to hasten work on Iran nuclear plant-radio
* Iranian vice president makes landmark visit to Egypt
* Iran pledges to protect foreign guests
* Iran group says attacked U.S. citizens - paper
* Khamenei slams Mideast deal, hails Hizbollah
* Iran vows to clear up murder of dissidents
* Bani-Sadr says Iran killed opposition leader
* Albright urges Iran's removal from drug list
* U.S. wants dialogue with Iran despite bus attack
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Friday
Nov 20, 1998
* Norway to send ambassador back to Iran
OSLO, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Norway said on Friday
it would reinstate an ambassador in Tehran in the New Year after cutting
ties in 1995 over a shooting connected with the Salman Rushdie affair.
The Norwegian Foreign Ministry said Norway had decided to reestablish
contacts after assurances in September from the Iranian government it would
not assist or reward anyone carrying out the religious fatwa, or decree,
permitting the killing of Rushdie. It said there had been ``other positive
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* Iranian intellectual dies in suspicious circumstances
TEHRAN, Nov 26 (AFP) - Magid Sharif, an Iranian writer, journalist and
translator close to liberal opposition circles, has died here in suspicious
circumstances, it was learned here Thursday from associates and a newspaper.
According to the moderate newspaper Hamshahri, the official organ of Tehran
municipality, the 58-year-old Sharif "apparently died of a heart attack"
on November 19. Sharif had left his home after telling his family that
he was going to the eastern city of Mashhad to attend the funeral of an
Iranian religious figure...
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* Dissident clergyman released in Iran
London, November 26, (BBC) - A religious court in Iran has given a suspended
prison sentence to one of the country's prominent dissident clergymen,
Mohsen Saiedzadeh. He was arrested in June, but charges against him were
never made public... FULL
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* Iran talks about American attack
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The 13 U.S. ``tourists'' attacked by Islamic militants
in Tehran last week were members of a business delegation exploring investment
opportunities, Iran disclosed today. Some of the Americans were injured
when extremists chanting ``Death to America,'' used stones and metal bars
Saturday to smash the windows of their bus... FULL
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* Militants back attack on Americans
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Hundreds of hard-liners in three cities showed their
support Friday for an attack on a bus carrying Americans last week, burning
13 U.S. flags -- one for each person on the bus. The protests were in
defiance of President Mohammad Khatami, who one day earlier had condemned
last Saturday's attack as a national disgrace and ``an insult to the government.''
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* Iran's 'Basij' forces in political storm
TEHRAN, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Iran's paramilitary Basij forces, bolstered
by legal and financial support from the conservative parliament, on Thursday
marked their annual day with mock patrols, roadblocks and the distribution
of sweets. At a Basij machinegun emplacement set up behind sandbags at
a busy Tehran street corner, young volunteers sporting khakis and red headbands
of martyrdom offered candy to passers-by and vowed to support the Islamic
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Thursday
Nov 26, 1998
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Wednesday
Nov 25, 1998
* Iran arrests suspects over dissident murders
TEHRAN, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Iran's police said on Wednesday it had arrested
a number of suspects in the killing of a veteran opposition leader and
his wife, as supporters of the dissidents called for a mass funeral. The
official Iranian news agency IRNA quoted police spokesman Colonel Ali Moqaddam
as saying ``a number of suspects have been arrested in connection with
the slaying'' of Dariush Forouhar and his wife Parvaneh... FULL
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* Iran says will punish killers of opposition veteran
TEHRAN, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Iran has said it will find and punish the
killers of a veteran opposition leader and his wife, the official Iranian
news agency IRNA reported. IRNA quoted Intelligence Minister Qorbanali
Dorri Najafabadi as saying on Tuesday that security forces and the judiciary
were investigating the weekend stabbings of Dariush Forouhar, leader of
the small opposition Iran Nation Party, and his wife Parvaneh... FULL
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* Iran vows to bring bus attackers to justice
TEHRAN, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Iran has vowed to bring
to justice militants who attacked a bus carrying U.S. citizens and other
foreigners in Tehran last weekend, the official news agency IRNA reported.
Intelligence Minister Qorbanali Dorri Najafabadi condemned the ``ugly act
by unidentified assailants,'' the agency said late on Tuesday. ``Those
involved in the incident will be decisively dealt with...We shall decisively
counter such an ugly and disdainful act and follow it up legally,'' Najafabadi
told IRNA... FULL
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* Iran marchers condemn visit by U.S. citizens
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Thousands of students from Iran's main Shi'ite Muslim
seminaries marched Wednesday to condemn a visit last week by a group of
Americans, whose bus was at one point attacked by militants, Iranian media
reported. Students wearing white shrouds, symbolizing their readiness to
die in the struggle against the United States, dragged a U.S. flag on the
ground as they led the march in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran,
the official news agency IRNA said... FULL
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* Khatami says freedom is vital to Islamic Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 25 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday issued
a strong plea for freedom of thought within Iran's Islamic system, warning
the country's newpaper barons that any other course would lead to social
explosion. ``Thought could be blocked for a short while, but it would only
be driven underground and eventually lead to social explosion,'' said Khatami,
a moderate Shi'ite Moslem cleric and himself a former newspaper publisher...
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* Iran says Afghan Taleban free last Iranian captive
TEHRAN, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Afghan Taleban, involved in a bitter
row with neighbouring Iran, released their last Iranian captive on Wednesday,
state-run Tehran radio reported. It quoted Iran's Foreign Ministry as saying
the Iranian, Manouchehr Amiri, was handed over to a ministry representative
in the western Afghan city of Herat for repatriation... FULL
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Tuesday
Nov 24, 1998
* Khatami orders action on dissident killings
TEHRAN, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Tuesday
ordered urgent investigations into the murder of a veteran opposition leader
and his wife, saying the people had to be reassured the government could
uphold the law. ``It is necessary that a special committee be set up to
seriously follow up the case of the crime...so that God willing the perpetrators
would promptly be identified and pay for their crime,'' state television
quoted Khatami as saying in a letter to Interior Minister Abdolvahed Mousavi-Lari...
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* Murder report
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A report on the murder of Dariush Forouhar and
his wife, with unusual details ... FULL
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* Russia to hasten work on Iran nuclear plant-radio
TEHRAN, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Iran and Russia agreed on Tuesday to speed
up construction of a nuclear power plant in the Iranian Gulf port of Bushehr,
a project strongly opposed by the United States. Tehran radio said Gholamreza
Aghazadeh, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, and visiting Russian
Atomic Energy Minister Yevgeni Adamov signed a protocol under which ``the
completion deadline of the Bushehr nuclear power plant's phase one was
cut to 52 months from the contracted 55 months.''... FULL
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* Iranian vice president makes landmark visit to Egypt
CAIRO, Nov 24 (AFP) -Iranian Vice President Massumeh Ebtekar, the highest-ranking
Iranian official to visit Egypt since ties were severed 20 years ago, attended
an international environmental conference here Tuesday. Ebtekar, who also
heads the Iranian environmental protection agency, is attending the 10th
ministerial conference of the Montreal Protocol, an international agreement
aimed at protecting the ozone layer from damage.
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* Iran pledges to protect foreign guests
TEHRAN, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official has condemned a
recent attack on a bus carrying Americans and other foreigners, declaring
that the government had a duty to protect visitors of all nationalities.
Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh was quoted by the daily Iran
News on Tuesday as saying anyone granted a visa to Iran had the right to
personal security and safety... FULL
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* Iran group says attacked U.S. citizens - paper
TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian group naming itself after Islamic extremists
known for political assassinations said it was behind an attack in Tehran
on a bus carrying U.S. citizens and other foreigners, newspapers reported
Tuesday. ``A group called Fadaeeyan-e Eslam (Devotees of Islam)...in a
letter claimed responsibility for the attack on the convoy of... Americans
who had travelled to Tehran,'' Hamshahri newspaper said. Other newspapers
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* Khamenei slams Mideast deal, hails Hizbollah
TEHRAN, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Tuesday slammed the latest Middle East peace accords and hailed the
pro-Iranian Hizbollah's fight against Israel in Lebanon, state televsion
reported. ``There is no logic behind this agreement, except Israeli and
American logic,'' said Khamenei, referring to last month's U.S.-brokered
accords between Israel and the Palestinians... FULL
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Monday
November 23, 1998
* Iran vows to clear up murder of dissidents
TEHRAN, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities vowed on Monday they
would not rest until they had solved the brutal killings of a veteran opposition
leader and his wife in Tehran. ``The judiciary head (Ayatollah Mohammad
Yazdi) expressed regret over the killing of Dariush Forouhar and his wife
and ordered the prompt identification and punishment of the perpetrators,''
the official news agency IRNA reported. Police said an elite task force
had been set up to investigate the stabbing deaths of Forouhar and his
wife Parvaneh, outspoken critics of Iran's Islamic government, whose bodies
were found at their home on Sunday... FULL
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* Bani-Sadr says Iran killed opposition leader
PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Exiled former Iranian President Abolhassan
Bani-Sadr on Monday blamed the Iranian authorities for the brutal killing
of an outspoken opposition leader and his wife in Tehran. ``The Western
governments that unhesitatingly declared that the regime had put an end
to totalitarianism, to violence and to political killings must now explain
to the public why they lied,'' Bani-Sadr said ... FULL
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* Albright urges Iran's removal from drug list
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, in a new
move aimed at improving ties with Tehran, has recommended that President
Clinton remove Iran from the U.S. list of major illicit drug-producing
countries, a senior U.S. official said Monday. This was the latest gesture
by Washington in a hesitant, slow-moving diplomatic dance of improving
relations between the two bitter enemies that began after a new moderate
president, Mohammad Khatami, became Iran's president in 1997 ... FULL
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* U.S. wants dialogue with Iran despite bus attack
WASHINGTON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The United States still wants to encourage
contacts between Iranians and Americans, despite an attack on a bus carrying
13 American tourists in Tehran, the State Department said on Monday. But
travelers to Iran should realise that attacks of this kind are possible,
spokesman James Rubin said. ``We do call upon the government of Iran to
adhere to the rule of law and protect visitors to their country. But of
course, we also continue to support President (Mohammad) Khatami's call
for a dialogue of civilisations and people-to-people exchanges such as
this,'' he added... FULL
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