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* Quake kills 26 in Iran, destroys 800
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* Judiciary chief calls for stricter controls on the press
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* Tehran's former mayor jailed on corruption
charges
* Assassination plot uncovered
* Iran foils bid to kill former president Rafsanjani
* Saudi defence minister ends landmark visit to Tehran
* Moderates launch last-minute bid to pardon Karbaschi
* Saudis, Iran to exchange military attaches
* UAE paper says Iran Gulf alliance call ``premature''
* Iran may have 19 mln drug addicts by 2021 - expert
* Hard-Liners losing battle
* Iran cuts funds to industry by 80 percent
* Iran mends gulf ties but limits remain
* Iran says Bahraini visit opens new chapter in ties
* Irans starts producing local-design helicopters
* Torture trial begins for Iran security chief
* Reformers triumphant after Majlis vote
* Tehran's mayor reports to prison May 6 - lawyer
* Britain nominates ambassador to Iran - agency
* Iran urges security cooperation with Saudi
* Khatami to launch Arab tour on May 13
* Karbaschi summoned to serve prison term
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Friday
May 7, 1999
* Quake kills 26 in Iran, destroys 800 homes
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - A strong earthquake hit southern Iran Friday,
killing at least 26 people and destroying 800 houses in dozens of villages,
Iranian state media reported. The quake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale
also injured at least 100 people when it struck a mountainous area 30 miles
southwest of Shiraz, the main city in Fars province, in the early hours
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* Judiciary chief calls for stricter controls on the press
TEHRAN, May 7 (AFP) - Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi
called Friday for stricter controls on the press and literary works in
the Islamic republic, saying they must abide by "moral values."
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Thursday
May 6, 1999
* Tehran's former mayor jailed on corruption charges
TEHRAN, May 6 (AFP) - Tehran's popular former mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi
began serving a two-year sentence for corruption on Thursday despite last-ditch
efforts by his moderate supporters to stop him going to jail. Karbaschi
had given himself up to a Tehran court following a warrant issued against
him last week, more than a year after he was first arrested on charges
he denounced as a purely political smear campaign by his hardline detractors
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* Assassination plot uncovered in Iran, Islamic militants arrested
TEHRAN, May 6 (AFP) - Twelve members of an Islamic militant group have
been arrested for plotting to assassinate Iranian leaders, the official
IRNA news agency reported Thursday, citing a senior judicial official.
"Members of the group were preparing a list of people to assassinate,
including a number of Iranian figures," IRNA quoted Mohammad Niazi,
a prosecutor for the Tehran military court, as saying ... FULL
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* Iran foils bid to kill former president Rafsanjani: report
TEHRAN, May 6 (AFP) - Iranian authorities have foiled an attempt on
the life of influential former president Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani by a
radical religious movement, a newspaper reported Thursday. The assassination
bid was "discovered and neutralised," the English-language Iran
News reported, without giving any date or other details about the attack
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* Saudi defence minister ends landmark visit to Tehran
TEHRAN, May 5 (AFP) - Saudi Defence Minister Prince Sultan ibn Abdel
Aziz left Tehran on Wednesday, ending a four-day landmark visit during
which Iranian leaders repeatedly called for a defence pact with Riyadh.
"Riyadh's main objective was to discuss means to promote and strengthen
bilateral relations with Iran," Prince Sultan said before departing
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Wednesday
May 5, 1999
* Moderates launch last-minute bid to pardon Karbaschi
TEHRAN, May 5 (AFP) -More than 70 moderate Iranian MPs and government
officials called Wednesday for the pardon of former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein
Karbaschi, due to begin serving a two-year jail term on Thursday ... FULL TEXT
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* Saudis, Iran to exchange military attaches
May 5, DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- In a sign of further improvement
in relations, Iran and Saudi Arabia have decided to exchange military attaches,
Iranian television reported Wednesday. Iranian Defense Minister Adm. Ali
Shamkhani said the move was a ``major achievement,'' according to the broadcast,
monitored by the British Broadcasting Corp ... FULL
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* UAE paper says Iran Gulf alliance call ``premature''
DUBAI, May 5 (Reuters) - A United Arab Emirates (UAE) newspaper said
on Wednesday that Iran's campaign to mend ties with its Gulf Arab neighbours
was ``premature.'' In an editorial, The Gulf Today said Iranian President
Mohammad Khatami's call for a regional military alliance with Saudi Arabia
ignored the political complexities it brought with it ... FULL
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* Iran may have 19 mln drug addicts by 2021 - expert
TEHRAN, May 5 (Reuters) - There could be 19 million drug addicts in
Iran among a projected population of 119 million in about two decades if
a rise in drug use continues, an Iranian narcotics expert said in remarks
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Tuesday
May 4, 1999
* Hard-Liners losing battle
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates. Tuesday, May 4, (AP) -- The hard-line clergy
that has wielded absolute power in Iran for 20 years is losing a power
struggle against reformists fighting for greater democracy. The hard-liners
have suffered a string of crushing defeats against supporters of moderate
President Mohammad Khatami, a middle-ranking cleric who was elected two
years ago. But nearly all their efforts to stall his reforms have backfired
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* Iran cuts funds to industry by 80 percent
TEHRAN, May 4 (Reuters) - Iran, hit by low oil income, cut state hard
currency allocations to industries by 80 percent in the year to March,
a senior official said in remarks published on Tuesday. Deputy Industry
Minister Hossein Naji said the Central Bank reduced foreign exchange allocations
to industries from an annual average of $4.5 billion to just $900 million
in the Iranian year that ended on March 20, the daily Abrar-e Eqtesadi
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* Iran mends gulf ties but limits remain
TEHRAN, May 4 (Reuters)- A recent stream of senior Gulf Arab visitors
to Tehran has highlighted Iran's achievements in repairing ties with its
neighbours across the strategic waterway after years of suspicion and tension.
But most Iranian political analysts believe warming relations, largely
the result of a charm offensive by Iran's President Mohammad Khatami, have
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* Iran says Bahraini visit opens new chapter in ties
TEHRAN, May 4 (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said
on Tuesday a visit to Iran by his Bahraini counterpart heralded reduced
tensions between the two Gulf neighbours. The official Iranian news agency
IRNA quoted Kharrazi as saying he hoped Sheikh Mohammad bin Mubarak al-Khalifa's
visit ``would open new horizons of interests'' for the two states ... FULL
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* Irans starts producing local-design helicopters
TEHRAN, May 4 (Reuters) - Iran on Tuesday launched a production line
for locally designed helicopters for both military and civilian purposes,
the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported. It said Defence Minister
Vice-Admiral Ali Shamkhani opened the military plant which would produce
Shabaviz (Owl) 75 and Shabaviz 2061 helicopters ... FULL
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Monday
May 3, 1999
* Torture trial begins for Iran security chief
TEHRAN, May 3 (AFP) - The closed-door trial of the Iranian chief of
security police charged with torturing officials from the Tehran municipality
opened at a military court here Monday ... FULL
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* Reformers triumphant after Majlis vote
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's reformist newspapers Sunday hailed a vote
of confidence in the liberal culture minister, describing it as an endorsement
of President Mohammad Khatami's democratic policies ... FULL
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* Tehran's mayor reports to prison May 6 - lawyer
TEHRAN, May 1 (Reuters) - The mayor of Tehran, who was suspended from
office following an embezzlement conviction, could begin his two-year prison
sentence next week, his lawyer said on Saturday ... FULL
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* Britain nominates ambassador to Iran - agency
TEHRAN, May 2 (Reuters) - Britain has nominated a new ambassador to
Iran, a move seen as a step towards ending a long-standing diplomatic rift
between the two states, the state IRNA news agency reported on Sunday ...
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* Iran urges security cooperation with Saudi in Persian
Gulf
TEHRAN, May 3 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami called
on Monday for military cooperation with Saudi Arabia to ensure the security
of the Persian Gulf, state-run Tehran radio reported ... FULL
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* Khatami to launch Arab tour on May 13
TEHRAN, May 3 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will start
a tour of Syria, Saudi Arabia and Qatar on May 13, Iran's official news
agency IRNA quoted the head of the presidential office as saying on Monday
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