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* Stern rebuke for Iran's liberals
* Iran leader vows faith in Khomeini 10 years after death
* Iran divided over Khomeini's legacy 10 years after death
* Iran counts on its cultural heritage to change image
* Mubarak calls for better ties with Iran and Sudan
* Iran and Iraq to swap war dead
* Iran denies helping Kurds

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* Khatami Islam must serve the people,not the state
* Iranian official calls for end to press crackdown
* Iran to mark 10th anniversary of Khomeini's death
* Khatami urges resolve to improve ``ill'' economy
* Interior minister appoints alviri as Tehran mayor
* Tehran welcomes remarks by Saudi crown prince
* The unfinished shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini
* UAE calls on Iran to settle island dispute
* Saudi Prince says Iran has right to arm itself
* Iran speaker says may change street name for Egypt
* Iranian activists detained in Iraqi Kurds
* Iran, Norway to swap ambassadors
* Pro-Khatami press under increasing pressure
* Mohammadi freed, but aide arrested
* Conservative speaker re-elected
* Political tug-of-war continues over election of new Tehran mayor
* Rial slide accelerates, loses 3.5 pct vs dollar

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Friday
June 4, 1999

* Stern rebuke for Iran's liberals on 10th anniversary of Khomeini's death

TEHRAN, June 4 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader delivered a stern rebuke to liberal reformers within the Islamic regime Friday in a keynote speech marking the 10th anniversary of the death of the regime's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. "We don't need any lessons about freedom from political upstarts," Khomeini's successor Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told the hundreds of thousands of Iranians gathered for the centrepiece anniversary rally ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran leader vows faith in Khomeini 10 years after death

TEHRAN, June 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people flocked to the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of his death as his successor vowed to remain faithful to Khomeini's legacy. ``The monument built by the imam (Khomeini) is as strong as ever and has deep roots,'' supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech before leading Friday prayers at the shrine ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran divided over Khomeini's legacy 10 years after death

TEHRAN, June 3 (AFP) - Iran celebrates the 10th anniversary of the death of the Islamic Republic's founding father Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Friday amid deep divisions over his legacy. Khomeini's disciples are anxious that the event should serve as a sign of the durability of the Islamic Revolution under the leadership of the Shiite Moslem clergy 20 years after the overthrow of the pro-western shah ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran counts on its cultural heritage to change image

ESFAHAN, Iran, June 3 (AFP) - Dorothea, a 69-year-old German, stands mesmerized before the blue dome of the "King's mosque" in Esfahan. Ten years after the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of the Iranian revolution, Iran is counting on Dorothea Aschever and thousands like her to change the country's image abroad ... FULL TEXT

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* Mubarak calls for better ties with Iran and Sudan

June 4 (MENA) - On Egyptian- Iranian ties, President Mubarak said: "As far as we are concerned, there are no problems in Egyptian- Iranian ties, but there are certain outstanding issues that are known to the Iranians. I wish to have very good ties with Iran , but at the proper time, for I have my own calculations in this respect." ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran and Iraq to swap war dead

BAGHDAD, June 3 (AFP) - Iran and Iraq will exchange next Tuesday the remains of more of their soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 war, an Iraqi weekly newspaper reported Thursday. The handover will take place at the Shalameja border post near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, said Al-Zawra, organ of the journalists' union which is run by President Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran denies helping Kurds

TEHRAN, June 2 (AFP) - Tehran Wednesday denied allegations made during the trial of the Turkish Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan that his Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has camps on Iranian soil. Foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, quoted by the official IRNA news agency, described the claims as "baseless" ... FULL TEXT

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Thursday
June 3, 1999

* Khatami Islam must serve the people,not the state

TEHRAN, June 3 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami called on Thursday for the speeding up of his social and political reforms and pledged to construct an Islamic system at the service of the people. In a speech to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the president said the people had to be allowed to shape their own destiny, rather than blindly serve the state ... FULL TEXT

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* Iranian official calls for end to press crackdown

TEHRAN, June 3 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian culture ministry official has appealed for an end to harassment of the liberal press by the conservative-led judiciary after a spate of arrests of newspaper directors, newspapers reported on Thursday. ``I formally protest the mistreatment of the press corps. Currently, journalists do not feel safe,'' newspapers quoted the Deputy Culture Minister on press affairs, Shaban Shahidi-Moaddab, as saying ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran to mark 10th anniversary of Khomeini's death

TEHRAN, June 3 (Reuters) - Iran marks the 10th anniversary of the death of late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Friday with rival factions claiming his political legacy. As the gap between reformers and religious conservatives widens, admiration for Khomeini is one of the few sentiments they share, though each group highlights aspects of Khomeini's thoughts that fit best with their own political vision ... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami urges resolve to improve ``ill'' economy

TEHRAN, June 2 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called on Wednesday for national resolve to tackle his country's ``ill'' economy, as officials appeared confused and divided over policy direction. ``We have to accept the fact that our economy is ill,'' Khatami said in a speech before inaugurating an exports promotion centre. ``Our economy needs a serious and fundamental restructuring. We need national resolve to boost exports,'' he declared ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
June 2, 1999

* Interior minister appoints alviri as mayor of tehran

tehran, june 2, irna -- interior minister abdolvahed mousavi lari here on wednesday confirmed morteza alviri's credential as tehran's mayor. per note third of the article 71 of the councils' law, mayors are appointed for cities with more than 200,000 population and for capital of provinces on the proposal of city council and on an order by interior minister and for other cities on the proposal of the city council and governor general's order ... FULL TEXT

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* Tehran welcomes remarks by Saudi crown prince

TEHRAN, June 2 (AFP) - Iran welcomed as "positive" on Wednesday remarks by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz on relations between the kingdom and the Islamic Republic. "The positive remarks by Prince Abdullah regarding relations between our two countries reflect the prevailing atmosphere of realism and transparency in our ties," the official IRNA news agency quoted Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi as saying ... FULL TEXT

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* The unfinished shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini

TEHRAN, June 2 (AFP) - The shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, destined to become one of the world's greatest centres of pilgrimage for Shiite Moslems, remains unfinished a decade after the death of Iran's "supreme leader."... Ceremonies will be held at the site, 13 kilometers (eight miles) south of Tehran on the road leading to the holy city of Qom, for the 10th anniversary of Khomeini's death on June 4, 1989, at the age of 89 ... FULL TEXT

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* UAE calls on Iran to settle island dispute

ABU DHABI, June 1 (AFP) - The United Arab Emirates called on Iran Tuesday to move to settle the dispute between them over three Gulf islands claimed by both, the official WAM news agency reported ... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
June 1, 1999

* Saudi Prince says Iran has right to arm itself

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah defended Iran's right to arm itself for self protection and said progress in relations between his country and the Islamic republic was for the benefit the Gulf region... In a rare such defense of Iran, the crown prince said: ''Iran has every right to develop its defense capabilities for its security without harming others, We also do the same.'' ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran speaker says may change street name for Egypt

TEHRAN, June 1 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament speaker said on Tuesday that Iranian deputies were ready to consider renaming a Tehran street called after the assassin of an Egyptian president, if the move helped improve ties with Egypt. ``Changing the name, in principle, could be considered,'' Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri said when asked if Iran would change the name of the road called Khaled Islambouli, an Islamist who assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981 ... FULL TEXT

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* Iranian activists detained in Iraqi Kurds

New York, June 1, 1999 (International Federation of Iranian Refugees) - On May 30, 1999 Habibollah Abdullahi, the International Federation of Iranian Refugees (IFIR) Erbil branch representative, and Abdullah Veissi, a member of that branch's Executive Committee, were arrested by the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) of Iraq ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran, Norway to swap ambassadors

TEHRAN, June 1 (Reuters) - Iran and Norway have upgraded their diplomatic ties to ambassadorial level after years of tension over the Salman Rushdie affair, a source at the Norwegian embassy said on Tuesday. The source told Reuters that Svein Aass, currently number two at the Norwegian mission at the United Nations, would take up the post in Tehran at the end of summer ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
May 31, 1999

* Pro-Khatami press under increasing pressure

TEHRAN, May 30 (AFP) - The brief detention of the head of Iran's official news agency was portrayed in the Iranian press Sunday as the latest twist in a campaign of pressure by conservatives against reformist media, less than a year away from parliamentary elections ... FULL TEXT

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* Mohammadi freed, but aide arrested

PARIS 30TH MAY (Iran Press Service) In a new, but tactical retreat, the ruling conservatives freed Sunday Mr. Manouchehr Mohammadi, the secretary-general of the secular Association of Iranian Nationalist Students (AINS) but arrested his comrade-in-arms, Mr. Qolamreza Mohajerinezhad, according to reliable information received from Tehran ... FULL TEXT

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* Conservative speaker re-elected

TEHRAN, Iran, May 30 (UPI) -- Iran's 270-seat parliament has overwhelmingly re-elected its conservative speaker, Ali Akbar Nateq Nouri, to another one-year term, signaling a further decline in the legislative power of the supporters of Iran's reformist president, Mohammad Khatami ... FULL TEXT

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* Political tug-of-war continues over election of new Tehran mayor

TEHRAN, May 30 (AFP) - Tehran's 15-member municipal council on Sunday continued its tug-of-war over the choice of a new mayor for the Iranian capital, although officially the issue was not on the day's agenda. "We have continued our discussions with Behzad Nabavi," spokeswoman of the city council Sadiqeh Vasmaqi said ... FULL TEXT

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* Rial slide accelerates, loses 3.5 pct vs dollar

TEHRAN, May 30 (Reuters) - The downward slide in the Iranian rial gathered pace this weekend, and on Sunday it had lost 3.5 percent against the dollar compared with late last week, traders said. On Tehran's illegal but active black market, the dollar was trading at 8,700 rials, compared with about 8,400 ... FULL TEXT

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