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* U.S. doubts Iran will
cross Afghan border
* Iran reports border clash with Taleban
* Iran mediates for Turkey and Syria
* IHRWG Condemns Crackdown on the freedom of expression
* Khamenei speaks on press freedom
* The role of youth in Khatami's election
* Iran reformists meet rejection
* Council of Guardians rejects
criticisms
* Names of approved candidates
* Mobil attacks U.S. stance on Iran
* Some 500 Baha'i homes raided in Iran
* Factions face off before key election
* Disqualifications may be reviewed
* Iran tells UN envoy troops stay on Afghan border
* Italian foreign trade minister in Iran
* Khatami confronts election body
* Writers told not to organize, reports say
* Iran warns Taleban its ``patience has limits''
* U.N. experts say Taleban authorise drug smuggling
* U.S. firms attend Iranian trade fair
* British official in Iran trade, investment talks
* Iran Panel: Rushdie Edict in Force
* Death sentence against editor lifted - unconfirmed
* Afghan Taleban accuse Iran of violating air space
* Iran accused of crackdown, arrests of Bahais
* Britain making "fresh start" with Iran
* Pakistan hopes Iran diplomatic staff cut temporary
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Thursday
Oct 8, 1998
* U.S. doubts Iran will cross Afghan border
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - The United States
said on Thursday it doubted the shooting on the border between Iran and
Afghanistan would lead to an Iranian incursion. Karl Inderfurth, Assistant
Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, told a Senate subcommittee
he could not immediately confirm an Iranian report of border clashes. Inderfurth
said: ``Our assessment at this point ... is that no Iranian military attack
is imminent. Indeed it may be unlikely to take place. We believe that the
exercises that have been taking place are over for time being.''...
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* Iran reports border clash with Taleban
Iranian troops on exercise near the Afghan border Iran says its armed
forces have clashed with the Afghan Taleban movement on the border between
the two countries. A Taleban spokesman in Kandahar said the Iranian statement
was a lie, and there had been no firing from the Afghan side of the border...
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* Iran mediates for Turkey and Syria
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The problems between Turkey and Syria can be
solved without violence, Iran's foreign minister said today after meeting
with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Turkish leaders accuse Syria of sheltering
Kurdish rebels, who carry out cross-border attacks into Turkey. Syria denies
the accusation, and Turkey's harsh rhetoric has raised fears of a regional
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* IHRWG Condemns Crackdown on the freedom of expression
Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) - "We remind the authorities
of the Islamic Republic that it is the basic right of all Iranians to criticize
and question both their leaders and their government and to freely express
their opinion on both matters. The freedom of expression becomes meaningful
only when it is accorded to one's opponents as well as one's supporters..."...
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* Khamenei speaks on press freedom
Oct 8, (BBC) - The Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, has said the press is free to criticise the leadership on any
subject, provided it does not try to undermine the government. Speaking
on Iranian radio, he said the state had to confront those who misused freedom
of expression to try and hatch conspiracies against the government... FULL
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* The role of youth in Khatami's election
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Feature on how to respond to the demands of youth
who played a key role in Khatami's victory in the presidential election...
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Wednesday
Oct 7, 1998
* Iran reformists meet rejection
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Most reformists who sought to run for a key assembly
that chooses Iran's spiritual leader -- the country's most powerful position
-- have been rejected by hard-liners. The list of candidates, published
Wednesday, is evidence of the overriding clout of the hard-liners in Iran's
clerical government, where President Mohammad Khatami and a small group
of moderates are struggling to ease social and political restrictions ...
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* Council of Guardians rejects criticisms
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - The Council of Guardians
has detailed its reasons for disqualifying 214 candidates for the Assembly
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* Names of approved candidates
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Names of official candidates
for the Assembly of Experts from various provinces ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Mobil attacks U.S. stance on Iran
ALMATY, Oct 7 (Reuters) - U.S. oil major Mobil
slammed the United States' position on energy investment in Iran on Wednesday,
saying that Washington's reluctance to do business with Tehran was ``doing
more harm than good.'' Carl Burnett, president of Mobil Oil Kazakhstan,
is keen to see U.S.-Iranian relations thaw, because it would help unlock
Central Asia's vast oil and gas wealth by providing an alternative pipeline
route to world markets... FULL
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* Some 500 Baha'i homes raided in Iran
TORONTO, Oct. 7 (UPI) - Iranian authorities are reported to have raided
more than 500 Baha'i homes across the country, seizing television sets,
furniture and other items of private property. Gerald Filson, a spokesman
for the Baha'i Community of Canada, said today the raids were carried out
simultaneously with the arrest of 36 Baha'i academics in 14 Iranian cities
last week... FULL
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Tuesday
Oct 6, 1998
* Factions face off before key election
TEHRAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Rival political factions faced off in the
streets of Tehran on Tuesday in a prelude to an election for a powerful
state body which alone can appoint and dismiss Iran's supreme leader. About
3,000 leftist Islamic students held a rally outside the gates of Tehran
University to protest against the rejection by the conservative-dominated
Guardian Council of some of the moderates who had signed up to run for
the Assembly of Experts... FULL
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* Disqualifications may be reviewed
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) The Council of Guardians has approved the candidacy
of a pro-Khatami cleric in Semnan and may review the candidacy of other
moderates disqualified earlier. The election for the Assembly of Experts
is to be held in less than two weeks... FULL
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* Iran tells UN envoy troops stay on Afghan border
TEHRAN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Iranian forces massed on the border with Afghanistan
will not pull back until Tehran's terms for peace with the Taleban are
met, Iran's defence minister told a visiting U.N. special envoy, diplomats
said on Tuesday. They said Rear-Admiral Ali Shamkhani made the statement
to the U.N. special envoy on Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, in talks in
Tehran on Monday... FULL
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* Italian foreign trade minister in Iran to drum up business
TEHRAN, Oct 6 (AFP) - Italian Foreign Trade Minister Augusto Fantozzi
is in Tehran to discuss developing economic ties as relations between Iran
and its second-largest European trading partner continue to expand. Giorgio
Fossa, president of the employers' association Cofindustria, arrived in
Tehran Sunday with a delegation of 120 business executives representing
80 Italian companies... FULL
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Monday
Oct 5, 1998
* Khatami confronts election body
President Khatami and his followers are regarded as liberals in Iran
President Khatami of Iran is reported to have protested to an electoral
body which disqualified most of his supporters from standing in a crucial
election this month. No details have been released, but Mr Khatami is believed
to have expressed his deep concern about the way the body screened candidates
for the Assembly of Experts, a clerical council which has the power to
appoint and dismiss Iran's supreme leader - currently Ayatollah Khamenei...
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* Writers told not to organize, reports say
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran's Islamic authorities have told a group
of prominent writers to give up efforts to re-activate an independent association
of authors, Iranian literary sources said on Monday. An Islamic revolutionary
court has in the past few days repeatedly questioned several cultural activists
and writers, including the prominent novelist Houshang Golshiri, a source
told Reuters... FULL
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* Iran warns Taleban its ``patience has limits''
TEHRAN, Oct 5 (Reuters) - Iran warned the Afghan Taleban on Monday its
``patience has limits'' and Tehran might take action unless the killers
of Iranian diplomats were punished. ``The Taleban must meet the demands
of Iran and the international community,'' Iranian television quoted Foreign
Minister Kamal Kharrazi as saying... FULL
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* U.N. experts say Taleban authorise drug smuggling
TEHRAN, Oct 3 (Reuters) - United Nations drugs experts wound up a week-long
visit to Iran on Saturday saying they had documentary evidence that the
Afghan Taleban militia approved the smuggling of narcotics into Iran. ``We
have some documents,'' said Renzo Imbeni, head of a visiting United Nations
Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) team... FULL
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* U.S. firms attend Iranian trade fair for first time in 20 years
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) - Several American companies are taking part in this
year's international trade fair in Tehran -- the first participation by
U.S. firms since the 1979 Iranian revolution that fractured relations between
the two countries. The companies from the United States, one of 74 countries
taking part in the fair, are in Tehran despite U.S. trade sanctions still
in place against Iran... FULL
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* British official in Iran trade, investment talks
TEHRAN, Oct 4 (Reuters) - A top British trade promoter met Iranian officials
on Sunday seeking the first fruits of improved relations between the two
countries after settlement of the Salman Rushdie affair. Britain and Iran
are beginning a new chapter in their relations after agreeing two weeks
ago to put behind them differences over the religious death decree against
the British author for alleged blasphemy against Islam... FULL
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* Iran Panel: Rushdie Edict in Force
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- More than half the members of Iran's hard-line
parliament have signed a letter saying the death edict against British
author Salman Rushdie still stands. The letter, broadcast Sunday on Iranian
television, was prompted by Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi's announcement
last month distancing the government from the fatwa and the $2.5 million
bounty placed on Rushdie's head in 1989 by a semi-official Iranian foundation...
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Friday,
Oct 2 1998
* Death sentence against editor lifted - unconfirmed
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (THE IRANIAN) - The death sentence against newspaper
editor Mohammad Firoozi has been lifted, sources in Tehran said. Judicial
authorities have made no official announcement and there has been no independent
confirmation. But sources close to Iran News, where Firoozi worked, said
they had received word from the judiciary that Firoozi is no longer facing
the death sentence. Firoozi had been condemned to death in January after
being convicted of adultery and spying.
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* Afghan Taleban accuse Iran of violating air space
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban Islamic militia said
Iranian jets and helicopters violated Afghan airspace three times on Friday,
a Pakistan-based Afghan news agency reported. Afghan Islamic Press (AIP)
quoted a Taleban official as saying that between 8.30 to 11 a.m. (0400-0630
GMT) Iranian jet fighters in three separate instances entered Afghan air
space in Nimroz province bordering Iran... FULL
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* Iran accused of crackdown, arrests of Bahais
PARIS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Members of the Bahai faith in France accused
the Iranian authorities on Friday of launching a major crackdown against
Bahais in 14 cities across Iran, arresting 32 people and breaking into
and looting many homes. All those arrested were professors and teachers
conducting ``open-university'' type courses for young Bahais who their
French fellow believers say are banned by authorities from attending universities
and other institutions of higher learning, a Bahai spokeswoman in France
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* Britain making "fresh start" with Iran
LONDON, Oct. 1, (IRNA) - foreign secretary robin cook said thursday
that the deal he secured with his iranian counterpart kamal kharrazi in
new york last week means britain making "a fresh start with iran and
the wider islamic world." "iran is currently president of the
organisation of the islamic nations, britain is currently president of
the g-8 nations," he said ... FULL
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* Pakistan hopes Iran diplomatic staff cut temporary
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Pakistan's deputy foreign minister Siddique
Kanju said on Friday he believed Iran's decision to cuts its staff in Pakistan
was due to financial constraints and hoped the reduction was temporary.
Iran said on Thursday it had recalled some of its diplomats from Pakistan
but insisted the move did not affect relations between the two countries,
which are at odds over the conflict in Afghanistan... FULL
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