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* Iran receives biggest British trade
delegation since 1979 revolution
* French Jewish groups call for new protests for release
of Iran Jews
* Norway to lift trade curbs on Iran after Rushdie
* Iran slams Israeli raids in Lebanon
* Iran offering Cambodia military aid: report
* UN opens Tehran drug office, launches program
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* Iran court jails senior Tehran official
for graft
* Iranian reformist publisher is interrogated in court
* Komura plans to visit Iran , to convey loan resumption
* Fear for Safety of Journalists
* Coroner says jailed suspected killer died of arsenic poisoning
* Iran Denies U.S. Charges of Military Buildup
* Loans to Iran Stall After Arrest of Jews
* Iran appoints Shi'ite cleric as new top judge
* Iran: Chief suspect's suicide will not affect investigation
* Jews detained in Iran referred to revolutionary court
* Retrial delayed for German sentenced to death in Iran
* Top US official discusses Iran with Persian Gulf states
* Armed opposition denies top general's killers arrested
in Iran
* Moderate Iranian press puzzles over suicide
* Intelligence minister slams outcry
over arrested Jews
* Minister says Iran wants full ties
with Egypt
* Iran says holds suspects in general's
killing
* "It was no holiday," say
Italians kidnapped in Iran
* Jannati says Jews spied, deserve to hang
* Iran tells UAE not to worry over Saudi ties
* Iran calls for quick Israeli pullout from Lebanon
* Tehran street gets new mural of Sadat assassin
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Friday
June 25, 1999
* Iran receives biggest British trade delegation since 1979 revolution
TEHRAN, June 25 (AFP) - A high-ranking British trade delegation, the
biggest since the 1979 Islamic revolution, arrived in Tehran early Friday,
several weeks after Tehran and London normalized diplomatic ties. "It's
the most important post-revolution mission of its kind," Darmott Graham,
a coordinator of the six-day visit, told AFP ... FULL
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* French Jewish groups call for new protests for release of Iran
Jews
PARIS, June 25 (AFP) - French Jewish organizations on Friday called
for renewed protests nationwide to demand the release of 13 Iranian Jews
whose arrest on charges of spying has provoked an outcry. They said that
13 public figures would chain themselves in front of the Iranian embassy
in Paris on June 29 to denounce the arrest of the 13 Iranian Jews ...
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* Norway to lift trade curbs on Iran after Rushdie
OSLO, June 25 (Reuters) - Norway will lift export curbs on Iran and
send an ambassador there in August after years of tension caused by a death
order against British author Salman Rushdie, officials said on Friday.
``We are now open to receiving applications for exports to Iran,'' Erling
Naper, head of the state-run Norwegian Guarantee Institute for Export Credits,
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* Iran slams Israeli raids in Lebanon
TEHRAN, June 25 (AFP) - Iran condemned Friday Israel's overnight raids
in Lebanon that killed eight people and called for the international community
to force Israel to stop. The attacks showed "the belligerent and aggressive
spirit of the Zionist regime," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman
Hamid Reza Assefi was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying
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* Iran offering Cambodia military aid: report
PHNOM PENH, June 25 (AFP) - Senior Iranian officials have visited Cambodia
to offer military aid including training, it was reported here Friday.
The English-language Phnom Penh Post said Commander-in-Chief Ke Kim Yan
initially turned down an offer made three months ago for fear of upsetting
western donors. But it said high-level private discussions had continued
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* UN opens Tehran drug office, launches program
VIENNA, June 25 (AFP) - The United Nations' drug agency announced Friday
the launch of a 13 million dollar program with Iran to boost its ability
to fight drug abuse, while opening a new office in Tehran ... FULL TEXT
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Thursday
June 17, 1999
* Iran court jails senior Tehran official for graft
TEHRAN, June 23 (Reuters) - An Iranian court on Wednesday sentenced
a top aide to Tehran's jailed former moderate mayor to nine years in prison,
a hefty fine and 50 lashes of the whip for graft, the official news agency
IRNA reported. Gholamreza Qobeh, who had been on bail, was immediately
taken to prison. He was convicted of charges ranging from embezzlement
to mismanagement and seizure of public property ... FULL
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* Iranian reformist publisher is interrogated in court
Teheran (dpa) - An Iranian reformist publisher was interrogated Wednesday
for several hours by a Teheran court over having expressed doubts regarding
Islamic values, informed sources said. Saaid Hajarian, the publisher of
the liberal daily newspaper Emruz, was interrogated by a court over ``having
expressed doubts'' over Islamic values in reply to a reader's question,
the sources said ... FULL
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* Komura plans to visit Iran , to convey loan resumption
TOKYO, June 24 (Japan Economis Newswire) -- Foreign Minister Masahiko
Komura plans to visit Iran shortly after the current Diet session ends
Aug. 13 to convey Japan's plan to partially resume loans to Iran , a senior
Foreign Ministry official said Thursday ... FULL
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Wednesday
June 23, 1999
* Fear for Safety of Journalists
June 22, ((Amnesty International) - Amnesty International is concerned
for the safety of Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, editor-in-chief of the weekly
newsletter Hoveyat-e-Khish (Our Identity), and Hossein Kashani, its director,
who have been arrested after questioning about publishing information contrary
to "public order and the public interest". On 16 June 1999, Hossein
Kashani was summoned to a tribunal at the office of the revolutionary prosecutor,
in Evin prison, and arrested after questioning ... FULL
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* Coroner says jailed suspected killer died of arsenic poisoning
June 23, BBC Monitoring - Iranian TV) - As you have heard in the news,
one of the agents of the recent suspicious killings, named Sa'id Emami,
has committed suicide. In order to clarify the matter and provide you with
more information, the correspondents from the Central News Unit talked
to the coroner and the doctor who, with his colleagues, made an extensive
effort to save Sa'id Emami's life ... FULL
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* Iran Denies U.S. Charges of Military Buildup
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran Wednesday angrily denied charges by a U.S. official
that it was trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and accused
Washington of trying to mislead regional opinion in an effort to sell more
arms. "America's government falsely accuses the Islamic republic of
developing weapons of mass destruction while it is itself a main supporter
and provider of such weapons and atomic arms to the Zionist regime (Israel),
which has the largest arsenal in the region," foreign ministry spokesman
Hamid Reza Asefi said ... FULL
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* Loans to Iran Stall After Arrest of Jews
June 23, 1999 (Washington Post) - A quiet undertaking at the World Bank
over the past 15 months to rehabilitate Iran for assistance has suffered
a setback. Industrious and delicate efforts to revive Iran's eligibility
for soft loans in social development sectors have been stymied by the Tehran
government's arrest of 13 Jewish Iranians on unproved charges of espionage,
according to a number of World Bank officials and diplomats ... FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
June 22, 1999
* Iran appoints Shi'ite cleric as new top judge
TEHRAN, June 22 (Reuters) - Iran has appointed a founder of an Iraqi
opposition group as head of its judiciary, current judiciary chief Ayatollah
Mohammad Yazdi said on Tuesday. Yazdi, quoted by the evening daily Kayhan,
said he would hand over the post in two months to Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi,
who in the early 1980s helped found the Supreme Council of the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the main Shi'ite Moslem group fighting the
government of President Saddam Hussein ... FULL
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* Iran: Chief suspect's suicide will not affect investigation
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Foreigners trying to tarnish Iran's
image aided in a string of murders late last year of dissident intellectuals,
the military prosecutor said Tuesday. The case, which shocked the nation
because of acknowledged involvement by Iranian intelligence agents, made
headlines again when the top suspect reportedly killed himself Saturday
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* Jews detained in Iran referred to revolutionary court
TEHRAN, June 22 (AFP) - The case of 13 Iranian Jews, whose arrest on
spy charges has provoked an outcry around the world, has been referred
to a revolutionary court in the southern city of Shiraz, a judicial official
told Kayhan newspaper Tuesday. "The case of Israel's spies is being
examined by a revolutionary court in Shiraz," the head of the provincial
judiciary, Mohamamd Karimi, said ... FULL
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* Retrial delayed for German sentenced to death in Iran
TEHRAN, June 22 (AFP) - The retrial of German businessman Helmut Hofer,
sentenced to death in Iran, was postponed after the official interpreter
failed to show up Tuesday in a new hiccup in a case that has dogged Tehran-Bonn
ties for the past two years. The court adjourned the retrial for six to
seven weeks -- Hofer's Iranian lawyer said a new hearing has been set for
August 11. A judiciary official gave no explanation for the absence of
the official German-Persian interpreter ... FULL
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* Top US official discusses Iran with Persian Gulf states
ABU DHABI, June 22 (AFP) - The United States came out Tuesday in favour
of the position of the United Arab Emirates over its island dispute with
Iran, said a top ranking Emirati foreign ministry official, quoted by the
official WAM news agency. The official, Undersecretary Saif Saeed bin Saad,
said a meeting between high ranking representatives of the foreign ministries
of the Gulf Cooperation Council and US Assistant Secretary of State for
Near East Affairs, Martin Indyk, had discussed relations between Iran and
its Gulf neighbours ... FULL
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* Armed opposition denies top general's killers arrested in Iran
NICOSIA, June 22 (AFP) - The main armed Iranian opposition group Tuesday
denied that any of its agents had been arrested in Iran in connection of
the April killing of top general Brigadier Ali Sayad Shirazi. "This
claim is a sheer lie. The operational units that punished General Shirazi
... are all safe and sound and unharmed," the People's Mujahedeen
said in a statement quoting "a spokesman for the Mujahedeen Command
HQ inside Iran." ... FULL
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Monday
June 21, 1999
* Moderate Iranian press puzzles over suicide
of murders' mastermind
TEHRAN, June 21 (AFP) - The mastermind of last
year's murders of Iranian dissidents was identified as a former intelligence
official on Monday as the moderate press here raised a number of questions
about his suicide. Saeed Emami, also known as Saaed Eslami, committed suicide
by swallowing "vajebi," a highly toxic powder mostly used for
hair-removal in Iran, while in the public bath of a prison in the capital
on Saturday ... FULL
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* Intelligence minister slams outcry over arrested
Jews
TEHRAN, June 21 (AFP) - Iranian Intelligence Minister
Ali Yunesi Monday attacked the "hullaballoo" raised about the
arrest of 13 Iranian Jews on spying charges. "They were arrested a
long time ago, but we did not want to impede the course of the inquiry
by making a public announcement, but international Zionism published the
news," he said, quoted on state television. He added that the case
had been submitted to the courts ... FULL
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* Minister says Iran wants full ties with Egypt
TEHRAN, June 21 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official
said on Monday his country wanted to re-establish closer ties with Egypt,
and sharply criticised Islamic hardliners who were trying to undermine
them. ``The view of the government and the Supreme National Security Council
is to move toward a comprehensive rebuilding of ties with Egypt,'' Ataollah
Mohajerani, the government spokesman and Minister of Culture and Islamic
Guidance, told reporters ... FULL
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* Iran says holds suspects in general's killing
TEHRAN, June 21 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces
have arrested several members of an armed opposition group suspected of
involvement in the assassination of a top general in April, Iran's intelligence
minister said on Monday. Ali Yunesi also said that one member of the Iraq-based
Mujahideen Khalq group was killed in a clash with security forces in Southern
Iran, where the other suspects in the killing of Lieutenant General Ali
Sayyad Shirazi were arrested, state television reported ... FULL TEXT
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* "It was no holiday," say Italians kidnapped in Iran
TEHRAN, June 21 (AFP) - Three Italians held for a week by kidnappers
in southern Iran arrived here on Monday as the Iranian authorities denounced
their abductors as "enemies of the Islamic Revolution." "We
were neither beaten nor tied up, but it really wasn't a holiday,"
Lorenzo Termite, one of the three, told a press conference at Tehran airport.
"We never knew what could happen to us." ... FULL
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