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Sept 8-11, 1998 / Shahrivar 17-20, 1377
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* Iran ups pressure on Taleban over diplomats
* UN Security Council condemns Iranian diplomat killings
* Iran says two diplomats survived Taleban attack
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* Three-day mourning
for slain diplomats
* Iran in new war games as Afghan tensions boil
* Iran sending more troops to Afghan border - report
* Afghan concerns unite rivals Turkey and Iran
* U.S. anthem gets first playing in Iran since 1979
* Khatami pledges peaceful solution
to Afghan crisis
* Iran Steps Up Pressure On Taleban Over Diplomats
* Iran police kill drug smugglers near Afghan border
* Iran says will use all means in Afghan dispute
* U.S. warns Iran against attack on Afghanistan
* Attackers "arrested"
* Khatami says security forces subject to law
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Friday,
Sept 11, 1998
* Iran ups pressure on Taleban over diplomats
TEHRAN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Iran stepped up pressure on Afghanistan's
Taleban militia on Friday with Revolutionary Guards vowing to avenge the
killing of Iranian diplomats if those responsible were not brought to justice.
The threat came as Shi'ite Moslems in the opposition-held central Afghan
city of Bamiyan prepared to fight approaching forces of the purist Islamic
Taleban rather than face what they say would be ethnic slaughter... FULL
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* UN Security Council condemns Iranian diplomat killings
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 10 (AFP) - The UN Security Council on Thursday
condemned the killing in Afghanistan of nine Iranian diplomats, and called
for an urgent investigation. Responding swiftly to a telephone call from
Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi to council president Hans Dahlgren
and a letter from the Iranian ambassador, the council members also urged
"maximum restraint" by all parties. In a statement read to reporters
after a closed-door briefing on the latest developments by a senior UN
official, Dahlgren said the council members "condemn these heinous
acts and violations of international law ... FULL
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* Iran says two diplomats survived Taleban attack
TEHRAN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Iran said on Friday two of its diplomats
had survived an attack by Afghan Taleban fighters last month in which nine
other Iranians were killed. ``Two of the diplomats have survived the carnage
and efforts are being made to get information on their plight,'' Iranian
state television quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Aminzadeh as saying.
``Based on reliable information which we have received, one of the diplomats
is unhurt and the other has been injured,'' Aminzadeh said ... FULL
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Thursday
Sept 10, 1998
* Three-day mourning for slain diplomats
TEHRAN, Sept. 11, (IRNA) - the office of the leader
of the islamic revolution and the supreme religious jurisprudent ayatollah
seyyed ali khamenei here thursday night issued a message of condolence
over the martyrdom of the iranian diplomats at the hand of afghan taliban
group in mazar-i sharif and announced a 3-day mourning period ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran in new war games as Afghan tensions boil
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban militia Thursday pledged to
punish some of its fighters who ``acting on their own'' killed nine Iranian
diplomats, an apparent attempt to appease an angry Iran which is preparing
a second round of major war games on their common border. The Sunni Moslem
Taleban, which rules most of Afghanistan, said renegade Taleban guerrillas
acting without orders killed the Iranians in an incident which has provoked
the huge military buildup by Shi'ite Iran ... FULL
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* Iran sending more troops to Afghan border - report
TEHRAN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Iran is to send more troops to its border
with Afghanistan where it has massed a 70,000-strong force in a face-off
with the Taleban militia over missing Iranian diplomats, a leading newspaper
reported on Thursday. ``Several army divisions will be deployed on (the)
Afghan border where the Nimroz Province of Afghanistan faces Iran,'' an
unnamed senior army officer was quoted as saying in the daily Tehran Times...
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* Afghan concerns unite rivals Turkey and Iran
ANKARA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Wary neighbours Turkey and Iran will at
last have a political issue they can agree on when Turkish Foreign Minister
Ismail Cem visits Tehran this weekend. Despite years of mutual suspicion,
the Middle East's two non-Arab giants are united in mistrust of Afghanistan's
Taleban militia -- albeit for entirely different reasons ... FULL
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* U.S. anthem gets first playing in Iran since 1979
TEHRAN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - ``The Star Spangled Banner'' was played
in Iran on Thursday at an international wrestling meet, the first time
the U.S. anthem has been publicly heard in the Islamic republic since the
1979 revolution. As the anthem was played, the American flag was raised
at Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) stadium hall during a medals ceremony in which
Sam Henson of the United States received the gold medal in the 54 kg category
of the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships ... FULL
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Wednesday
Sept 9, 1998
* Khatami pledges peaceful solution to Afghan
crisis
TEHRAN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami on Wednesday pledged to seek a peaceful solution to a crisis with
the Afghan Taleban and said he doubted U.S. sincerity in its expressed
concern. ``We cannot remain indifferent towards the lives of our citizens,
and particularly our diplomats, who have been attacked and taken hostage
in violation of international law,'' the moderate Shi'ite Moslem clergyman
said ... FULL
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* Iran Steps Up Pressure On Taleban Over Diplomats
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran has stepped up pressure
on the Afghan Taleban over the fate of Iranians caught up faction fighting,
and the United States warned against military action. The latest in a series
of contrasting messages by Iranian leaders warned the purist Islamic movement
that rules most of neighboring Afghanistan of unspecified consequences
if the missing Iranians were not released ... FULL
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* Iran police kill drug smugglers near Afghan
border
TEHRAN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Iranian police killed
seven armed drug smugglers and seized more than 1.7 tonnes of drugs in
two separate raids near the Afghan border, Iran's official news agency
IRNA reported on Wednesday. It said the seven traffickers were killed in
a shootout on Tuesday in an area about 180 km (110 miles) from Afghanistan,
a major drug producer. Some 96 kg (211.2 lbs) of opium and four machine
guns were confiscated, it said.... FULL
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Tuesday
Sept 8, 1998
* Iran says will use all means in Afghan dispute
TEHRAN, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it would use ``all possibilities''
to free Iranians held in Afghanistan and called on the Afghan Taleban Islamic
movement to respond quickly ``before it is too late.'' ``The Islamic Republic
of Iran will revert to making use of all possibilities to free its diplomats
and citizens held in captivity by the Taleban militia,'' Iranian Foreign
Minister Kamal Kharrazi said in remarks to journalists published by the
official Iranian news agency IRNA ... FULL
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* U.S. warns Iran against attack on Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday expressed
serious concern over the buildup of Iranian forces on Afghanistan's border
and urged Tehran against military action. Instead, the State Department
said Iran and Afghanistan should solve a dispute over missing Iranians
in Afghanistan peacefully with United Nations mediation ... FULL
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* Attackers "arrested"
TEHRAN, (Tous) - A number of persons have been arrested in connection
with last week's beating of two moderate ministers ... FULL
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* Khatami says security forces subject to law
TEHRAN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami said on
Monday Iranian security forces were answerable to the law, calling on them
to respect even dissidents' right to free speech, Tehran radio reported.
``There should be an atmosphere in society in which dissidents also have
the right to express themselves,'' the radio quoted the moderate Khatami
as saying at a meeting with officials of Iran's Intelligence (internal
security) Ministry ... FULL
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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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