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Feb 15-19, 1999 / Bahman 26-30,1377
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* Kurds protest outside Turkish embassy in Tehran
* Italian officials say Khatami's visit "vital"
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* Municipal election campaign opens in Iran
* Forty-five arrested in attack on Hadi Khamenei
* Iran drills first well at new giant offshore gas field
* Iran advances Elf-ENI oilfield deal
* New intelligence chief faces vote of confidence
* Campaigning to start for first municipal elections
* Elf, Agip win $500 mln Iran Doroud oil deal
* U.S. to target Canada, UK firms in Iran oil deal
* Khamenei accuses US of hatching economic plots
* U.S.: Iran no longer a "rogue" state
* Drug use on the rise among young Iranians: report
* Amir-Entezam trial opens in his absence
* Iran missile for military use-Jane's
* Official says Israel behind dissident deaths
* Japan to restructure $500Mn of Iranian debt
* Amir-Entezam to be put on trial Tuesday
* Police account of German's murder
* Brother of supreme leader assaulted
* Tehran wants "drastic reform"
* More may be charged over murders
* Iran: No confrontation with US, Israel
* Iran starts work on new airbase in south
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Friday
February 19, 1999
* Iranian Kurds protest outside Turkish embassy in Tehran
TEHRAN, Feb 19 (AFP) - Chanting "Death to Turkey, America and
Israel," some 1,000 Iranian Kurds staged a rally outside the Turkish
embassy and a UN office here Friday to protest the capture of Kurdish rebel
leader Abdullah Ocalan. "Free Ocalan" and "Ocalan, Ocalan,
we support you" the demonstrators shouted in Kurdish outside the
embassy in central Tehran before moving on to the office of the UN representative
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* Italian officials say Khatami's visit "vital"
Rome, feb. 19, irna -- in a meeting with iranian deputy foreign minister
for euro-american affairs `morteza sarmadi' here thursday the italian minister
of parliamentary relations `guido folloni' said that the upcoming visit
of iran's president hojjatoleslam seyyed mohammad khatami to italy is of
great significance ... FULL
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Thursday
February 18, 1999
* Municipal election campaign opens in Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - Posters and photos of candidates were plastered
all over buildings, bridges and telephone poles of Tehran as the campaign
for the February 26 municipal elections kicked off officially Thursday.
The same pictures were splashed over newspapers and magazines, and the
windows and bumpers of taxis, as the candidates prepare for just a week
of campaigning -- all electoral activity is banned the day before the polls.
The municipal elections, the first since the 1979 Islamic revolution which
overthrew the shah, are being watched with intense interest ... FULL TEXT
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* Forty-five arrested in attack on Hadi Khamenei
TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - Forty-five people in Iran have been arrested
in connection with last week's attack on Hadi Khamenei, brother of supreme
leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday.
Hadi Khamenei, an adviser to reformist President Mohammad Khatami, was
beaten up by fundamentalist activists at the Mohammadiyeh mosque in the
holy city of Qom last Thursday ... FULL
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* Iran drills first well at new giant offshore gas field
TEHRAN, Feb 18 (AFP) - Iran started drilling the first well Thursday
at the vast South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, the official IRNA
news agency reported. Iranian President Mohammad Khatami watched the operations
and broadcast a message thanking the Iranian engineers working on the project
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* Iran advances Elf-ENI oilfield deal
Feb 18, 1999, GENEVA, (WALL STREET JOURNAL) -- Iran's Supreme Economic
Council has approved a contract under which France's Elf Aquitaine SA and
Italy's ENI SpA would develop a large oil and natural-gas field in the
Persian Gulf, in a deal that furthers Tehran's campaign to circumvent U.S.
economic sanctions. Terms of the contract for the offshore Dorood field,
off Iran's Kharg Island, were agreed on some time ago by Elf, ENI and Iran.
But the signing of the deal has been repeatedly put off until formal approval
from the council, which vets such agreements, and the Iranian cabinet ...
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Wednesday
February 17, 1999
* New Iranian intelligence chief faces vote of confidence
TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - The new head of Iran's scandal-tainted intelligence
ministry was presented to parliament Wednesday for a vote of confidence,
the official news agency IRNA reported. Ali Yunesi was tapped to take over
as head of the powerful ministry from Qorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi, who resigned
this month following the revelation that "rogue" intelligence
agents had been involved in the murders of several dissidents and writers
last year ... FULL
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* Campaigning to start for first municipal elections in Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - Candidates can begin campaigning Thursday for
next week's municipal elections, the first in Iran since the 1979 Islamic
revolution and a vital test for democratic reforms, the interior ministry
said Wednesday. The final list of candidates approved by the government's
selection committee, anticipated for a week, is due to be displayed in
precints Thursday following controversy over the banning of some candidates
close to reformist President Mohammad Khatami ... FULL
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* Elf, Agip win $500 mln Iran Doroud oil deal|
DUBAI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - France's Elf Aquitaine and Italy's ENI have
won a deal worth some $500 million to expand Iran's Doroud offshore oil
and gasfield, an Iranian oil official said on Wednesday. ``The National
Iranian Oil Company has awarded Elf and Agip the Doroud deal and it has
been approved by the Supreme Economic Council,'' the official, who asked
not to be identified, told Reuters ... FULL
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* U.S. to target Canada, UK firms in Iran oil deal
WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The Clinton Administration will target
two Canadian and British companies taking part in a $200 million Iranian
oil project under a U.S. sanctions law that seeks to deter large foreign
investments in Iran's energy sector, a State Department spokesman said
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* Khamenei accuses US of hatching economic plots
TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
accused the United States on Wednesday of hatching economic plots against
the Islamic republic. "Pressures on our economy and obstacles in the
way of government efforts to solve the population's daily problems are
among the economic conspiracies of the United States, the Great Satan,
and other enemies of Islam," Khamenei said, according to state radio
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* U.S.: Iran no longer a "rogue" state
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)-- The Washington Post reported Wednesday that
as far as the State Department is concerned, Iran is no longer a rogue
state. "We have changed the tone of our language. We no longer call
Iran a rogue state, and we no longer say things such as ' Iranian behavior.'
Such is the language of tutelage, not statesmanship," according to
John Limbert, a State Department official who offered an insider's view
on how Washington was trying to disentangle the knots of mistrust with
Tehran ... FULL
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* Drug use on the rise among young Iranians: report
TEHRAN, Feb 17 (AFP) - Drug use in Iran is on the rise, particularly
among students despite government crackdowns, a newspaper here reported
Wednesday. "There are currently more than three million drug users
in Iran, including 260,000 young students," conservative newspaper
Resalat said, citing a government official ... FULL
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Tuesday
February 16, 1999
* Amir-Entezam trial opens in his absence
TEHRAN, Feb 16 (Reuters) - An Iranian court on Tuesday began hearing
defamation charges against a former deputy prime minister in his absence
despite protests from his lawyers, journalists said. The lawyers said they
would seek a new trial for Abbas Amir-Entezam. The defence attorneys protested
that Amir-Entezam had been forced to remain in jail and not allowed to
attend the court session, they added ... FULL
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* Japan to restructure $500Mn of Iranian debt
15 February, (Middle East Economic Survey) - Following official negotiations
in January between the Central Bank of Iran and the Japanese Government,
the Japanese Export Import Bank (JEXIM) and a group of private companies
have agreed to reschedule nearly $500mn of Iranian debt (the total outstanding
in Japanese private credit) in the form of a loan ... FULL
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Monday
February 15, 1999
* Amir-Entezam to be put on trial Tuesday
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - A minister in Iran's first post-revolutionary
government is to go on trial here Tuesday charged with slander, his wife
told AFP. Abbas Amir-Entezam, regarded as a liberal, was detained last
September after making critical statements about the former head of the
Evin prison near Tehran, Assadollah Ladjevardi, who was assassinated in
August ... FULL
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* Iranian police issue account of German's murder
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - Iranian police issued a detailed account Monday
of the murder of a German businessman following mounting criticism of the
authorities' handling of the affair and suggestions that "invisible
hands" were behind it. Police insisted a lone fugitive from justice
was reponsible for Saturday's murder of the former Tehran representative
of Deutsche Bank, Heinrich Lambert Heimes ... FULL
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* Brother of supreme leader assaulted
TEHRAN, Feb 13 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called Saturday
for an investigation into the assault of one of his advisers, the brother
of supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid an escalation
of political violence in the Islamic republic ... FULL
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* Tehran wants "drastic reform" following dissident murders
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - Iran's reformist government launched a campaign
for a thorough overhaul of the secretive intelligence services Monday following
last month's shock admission that "rogue" agents were involved
in the murder of dissidents. The intelligence ministry, which is "responsible
to ensure the security of citizens," had "become the home to
a coterie of murderers," said an editorial in the government newspaper
Iran Daily ... FULL
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* Iran may charge more people over dissident murders
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Iranian authorities may charge more people
with involvement in killings of dissidents blamed partly on rogue secret
agents, newspapers reported on Monday. A presidential commission investigating
the murders of two dissidents and two liberal writers late last year reported
to President Mohammad Khatami on Sunday, the daily Iran said ... FULL
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* Iran: No confrontation with US, Israel
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Iran's former Revolutionary Guards
commander Mohsen Rezaie has ruled out any military confrontation with the
United States and Israel but has warned that his country has the capability
to retaliate to any missile strike by the Jewish state ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran starts work on new airbase in south
TEHRAN, Feb 15 (AFP) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps has started
work on a new airbase in the southern province of Fars, the Tehran press
reported Monday ... FULL
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