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* Iran, Saudi Arabia have "common
strategic interests"
* Iran discusses Kosovo with British, Moslem FMs
* Kosovo crisis stemmed from "arrogance:" Iran
* Iran making human rights progress
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* UN praise over Iranian human rights
* U.S. slams China, Cuba & Iran for abuses
* Russian FM to visit Iran soon
* Iran to give foreign firms legal status
* 1,000 bodies from Iraq-Iran war found
* Long haul ahead for Iran's oil opening
* Iran voices concern over Kosovo
* Iranian wrestlers arrive in Spokane, Washington
* Paris tries to solve wine row
* Iran to send aid to Kosovo refugees
* UAE to hold naval war games
* Khatami's French visit put off In row over wine
* Saudi defense minister to visit Iran next month
* Iran summons Yugoslav envoy over Kosovo killings
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Friday
April 2, 1999
* Iran, Saudi Arabia have "common strategic interests"
April 2, 1999 TEHRAN, April 2 (AFP) -Former Iranian foreign minister
Ali Akbar Velayati said he hoped to see Iranian-Saudi ties grow as the
two countries share strategic objectives, the official IRNA news agency
reported Friday. "If the two countries' relations improve in future
it would be likely that the two would follow common strategic goals,"
Velayati, who is diplomatic adviser to Iran's supreme guide, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, told Qatari satellite television.
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* Iranian FM discusses Kosovo crisis with British,M oslem FMs
April 2, 1999, TEHRAN, April 2 (AFP) -Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal
Kharazi has held talks on the Kosovo crisis with British counterpart Robin
Cook and foreign ministers from several other Moslem countries, the official
news agency IRNA reported Friday.
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* Kosovo crisis stemmed from "arrogance:" Iran
April 2, 1999 TEHRAN, April 2 (AFP) -Former Iranian president Ali Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani blamed Friday the Kosovo crisis on "the arrogance,"
a code word for the United States, which he said acted on "the pretext"
of helping the "oppressed."
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* Iran making human rights progress
April 1, 1999, GENEVA (AP) -- The Iranian government is making progress
towardbuilding a more ``tolerant society'' that recognizes human rights,
a U.N.expert said today. However, the Islamic nation should remain under
special scrutiny at the U.N.Human Rights Commission for at least another
year because improvementsare not extensive enough, said Maurice Danby Copithorne,
the U.N. specialinvestigator on Iran ... FULL
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Thursday
April 1, 1999
* UN praise over Iranian human rights
April 1, (BBC) The United Nations human rights investigator for Iran
has said the Iranian government is making progress towards building a more
tolerant society which recognises human rights. But he said Iran should
remain under special scrutiny by the UN Human Rights Commission for at
least another year because the improvements aren't big enough ... FULL
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* U.S. slams China, Cuba & Iran for abuses
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States called on the United Nations human
rights forum Thursday to join it in condemning China and Cuba for repressing
basic political and religious freedoms. Harold Hongju Koh, assistant Secretary
of state for democracy, human rights and labor, also denounced violations
in countries including Iraq, Iran, Sierra Leone, Sudan and the former Yugoslavia
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* Russian FM to visit Iran soon
TEHRAN, April 1 (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov is to visit
Iran in the "near future" for talks on strengthening ties, the
official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
Georgy Mamedov announced the visit during talks in Moscow on Wednesday
with his Iranian counterpart Morteza Sarmadi ... FULL
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* Iran to give foreign firms legal status for first time in 20 years
TEHRAN, April 1 (AFP) - Iran has made another step towards opening up
its economy with a bill giving foreign firms legal status for the first
time since the 1979 Islamic revolution, the state news agency IRNA reported
Thursday. The bill to allow registration of foreign companies was approved
at a cabinet meeting Wednesday chaired by President Mohammad Khatami, IRNA
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* 1,000 bodies from Iraq-Iran war found
BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 1 (UPI) -- Iraq says it has found the bodies of
1,000 soldiers who were killed in an area in southern Iraq that witnessed
some of the fiercest battles during the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war ... FULL TEXT
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Wednesday
March 31, 1999
* Long haul ahead for Iran's oil opening
DUBAI, March 31 (Reuters) - Iran's biggest oil opening to foreign investors
in 20 years is caught in a web of price uncertainty, threatened U.S. sanctions
and paralysis in decision-making, analysts say. ``The Iranians are under
pressure from all sides. Nobody wants to decide what to do,'' said an Iranian
oil analyst. ``The selection procedure has slowed this (opening) down considerably
at a time when U.S. sanctions are keeping out the bulk of the industry.''
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* Iran voices concern over Kosovo
March 31, (BBC) The Iranian foreign minister, Kamal Kharazi, has expressed
deep concern over what he called the continuing ethnic cleansing in Kosovo
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* Iranian wrestlers arrive in Spokane, Washington
Spokane, March 31, IRNA -- iran's free style wrestling team arrived
here tuesday night to attend the world cup wrestling championship in the
united states. the iranian wrestlers, who arrived in chicago on sunday,
were warmly received by iranians residing in western america ... FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
March 30, 1999
* Paris tries to solve wine row blocking Khatami trip
PARIS, March 30 (Reuters) - France on Tuesday renewed an invitation
to Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to visit Paris which has been snubbed
by Tehran because wine would be served at a state banquet. Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret told reporters that French diplomats were
working to solve differences on protocol which she declined to specify
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* Iran to send aid to Kosovo refugees
TEHRAN, March 30 (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it would send food
and medicine to help tens of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing
the conflict in Kosovo. Iran's Foreign Ministry said the aid, also including
clothes and tents, would be sent to Albania and Macedonia at the request
of the two countries which host many of the refugees ... FULL
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* UAE to hold naval war games in Gulf with U.S., Britain
DUBAI, March 30 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates plans to hold naval
exercises with U.S. and British forces in the Gulf to raise its fighting
ability, the official WAM news agency reported on Tuesday. It said the
manoeuvres, code-named Iron Fist 99, would be held in the next few days
but gave no specific date or details ... FULL
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Monday
March 29, 1999
* Khatami's French visit put off In row over wine
PARIS (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has scrapped plans
for an April visit to Paris because France would have served wine at a
state banquet, French diplomatic sources said. Khatami's office announced
Monday that the visit, only the second to the West by an Iranian president
since the 1979 Islamic revolution, was postponed ``as no agreement has
been reached with French authorities on respecting Islamic and national
norms.'' ... FULL
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* Saudi defense minister to visit Iran next month
Tehran, march 30, irna -- iranian ambassador to saudi arabia mohamma
reza nouri shahroudi announced monday that the saudi minister of defense
and civil aviation prince sultan ibn abd al-azia as-sa'ud will pay an official
visit to iran from may 1. he told irna that the visit is considered to
be significant as the defense minister holds a very important position
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* Iran summons Yugoslav envoy over Kosovo killings
TEHRAN, March 27 (Reuters) - The Iranian foreign ministry has summoned
the Yugoslav charge d'affaires in Tehran to protest against reported killings
of ethnic Albanian Moslems in Kosovo by Serbs, the official IRNA news agency
said on Saturday. The ministry expressed Iran's concern over extremist
Serbs' suppression of Moslems, IRNA said, after the meeting late on Friday
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