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August 31-September 4, 1998 / Shahrivar 9-13,
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* Iran leaders assaulted by militants
* Afghanistan releases five Iranians
* Must read: What if violence was checked in 1979?
* Must read: Interview with Rezaie son
* Human rights group calls for investigation
* Iraq commemorates anniversary of war with Iran
* Israel Suspects Iran Spy Satellite
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* Afghan Taleban says
Iran envoys may be dead
* Iran war games signal warning to Taleban-analysts
* Iran says to close bulk of 43 oil deals by March 99
* Khatami's "message of peace"
* Experts Assembly candidates
* Iran to sue German firms over chemical weapons
* Women in Experts Assembly?
* Afghan Taleban seek U.N. mediation with Iran
* Afghan Taleban say Iranian exercises a threat
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Friday,
Sept 4, 1998
* Iran leaders assaulted by militants
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Hard-line militants assaulted an Iranian deputy
president and the culture minister on Friday as they left a prayer service
in central Tehran, witnesses said. About 80 militants chanting ``Death
to liberals!'' scuffled with the two, both moderates, as they left Tehran
University separately after Friday prayers, said the witnesses, who spoke
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* Afghanistan releases five Iranians
CHAKLALA AIR BASE, Pakistan (AP) -- Five Iranians
held by the Taliban army in Afghanistan have been released in a goodwill
gesture toward their powerful neighbor, following the disappearance of
11 Iranian diplomats. The Iranians, all truck drivers, landed Thursday
evening at the Chaklala military air base near Islamabad aboard a Pakistan
air force plane... FULL
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* Must read: What if violence was checked in 1979?
TEHRAN, (Tous) - This editorial considers what may have happened if
political violence after the revolution had been checked ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Must read: Interview with Rezaie son
TEHRAN, (Tous) - The moderate daily Tous has interviewed former revolutionary
guards commander's son who recently defected to the U.S ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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* Human rights group calls for investigation
Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) -- Noting the recent emphasis
by the authorities of the Islamic Republic on the rule of law and building
a civil society, the Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG) demands
from the current administration in Iran... to launch a full investigation
into the 1988 mass execution of political prisoners; to provide the public
with the number and identity of the victims; and to reveal the burial sight
of the victims ... FULL
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* Full story Iraq commemorates anniversary of war with Iran
BAGHDAD, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Iraq commemorated its war with Iran on Friday
by blaming Tehran for the ruinous war the two countries fought for eight
years and called on Iranian rulers to show a sincere desire to normalise
relations. Memories of the war, started 18 years ago this month, linger
on in Iraq... FULL
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* Israel Suspects Iran Spy Satellite
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli intelligence officials believe Iran is developing
a spy satellite as part of its ballistic missile program, Israel's Channel
2 television reported Friday. The officials, whom the station did not
identify, said they came to their conclusion after analyzing Iranian television
video shots of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei visiting the
missile development plant... FULL
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Thursday
Sept 3, 1998
* Afghan Taleban says Iran envoys may be dead
ISLAMABAD, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban
militia said on Thursday at least 10 missing Iranian diplomats may be dead
as tensions with Tehran escalated after 70,000 Iranian troops participated
in war games on their common border. Amnesty International reported on
Thursday that 10 Iranian diplomats and one journalist ``are said to have
been killed when the Taleban guards entered the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif.''
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* Iran war games signal warning to Taleban-analysts
DUBAI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Large-scale Iranian manoeuvres on the border
with Afghanistan are a warning to the Taleban militia which they cannot
afford to ignore, military analysts said on Thursday. Fighters of the purist
Islamic movement which rules about 90 percent of Afghanistan, though battle-hardened
and determined, could not muster sufficient forces to match the 70,000
Iranians engaged in three days of exercises only 60 km (40 miles) from
the Afghan border, the analysts added... FULL
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* Iran says to close bulk of 43 oil deals by March 99
TEHRAN, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iran plans to finalise by March many of the
contracts relating to oil and gas projects offered to foreign firms under
its latest ``buy-back'' tender offer, a senior Iranian oil official said
on Thursday. ``We have the definite intent to finalise an appreciable number
of the contracts by the end of the (Iranian) year (March 20, 1999),'' Mehdi
Husseini, deputy oil minister for international affairs, told reporters
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* Khatami's "message of peace"
DURBAN, South Africa, (HAMSHAHRI) - President Khatami has made a major
speech calling on developing countries to resolve their difference with
developing countries through greater dialogue... FULL
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* Experts Assembly candidates
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Hamshahri has published the names of those who
have declared themselves candidates for the Assembly of Experts in Tehran
and some other major cities. Several names may not make it through the
vetting process... FULL
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* Iran to sue German firms over chemical weapons
TEHRAN, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iran on Thursday named nine German companies
it has said would face legal action for allegedly supplying chemical weapons
to Iraq during its 1980-88 war with Iran. State-run Tehran radio quoted
judiciary spokesman Fotovat Nassiri-Savadkuhi as saying that a court in
Tehran would hear charges filed by Iranian victims of chemical attacks
against the German firms ... FULL
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Wednesday
Sept 2, 1998
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Tuesday
Sept 1, 1998
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Monday
August 31, 1998
* Women in Experts Assembly?
TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Majlis deputy Faezeh Hashemi has called for women's
presence in the Experts Assembly, whose members will be elecled in a few
weeks ... FULL
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* Afghan Taleban seek U.N. mediation with Iran
ISLAMABAD, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taleban Islamic movement
asked the United Nations on Monday to mediate between it and Iran over
Tehran's complaint that the movement is holding its diplomats. ``We have
no information about the Iranian diplomats,'' a Taleban spokesman told
a Pakistan-based news service ... FULL
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* Afghan Taleban say Iranian exercises a threat
KABUL, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban movement on Monday accused
neighbouring Iran of threatening behaviour for conducting military manoeuvres
on its border and warned Tehran against any escalation of tensions. ``Despite
the failure of...the flagrant and shameless interferences in Afghanistan
by Iran, it intends to threaten Afghans by carrying out military exercises
along the Afghan border under the excuse of its missing spies,'' a Taleban
foreign ministry statement received by Reuters said ... FULL
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