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May 10-14, 1999 / Ordibehesht 20-24, 1378
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* Khatami's Saudi visit a landmark
* Assad, Khatami discuss Iran-Arab ties
* Khatami tells Moslems to set aside disputes
* Khatami assures PLO opposition of support
* U.S. sees Iran 99/2000 wheat imports at 5.5 mln tons
* Jannati blasts secular Turks as bigots
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* Iran's Khatami holds talks with ally
Syria
* Tehran city council narrows list of mayoral candidates
* Iran protests to Turkey over border killings
* Senior clerics denounce any resumption of ties with U.S.
* Iran holds day of solidarity with Kosovo Albanians
* Iranian girl learns surgery's not for the best
* Opposition figures pledge to expose murderers
* Two political prisoners executed - group
* Former mayor shares prison cell with 200 inmates: paper
* U.S. senator urges simple rules for Iran sales
* Syria, Iran summit to improve Tehran's Arab ties
* Khamenei declines to pardon jailed Tehran mayor
* Khatami calls for greater tolerance
* Khatami tour seen finalising Saudi rapprochement
* 74 candidates seek post of mayor of Tehran
* Turkey protests against alleged Iranian support for Islamists
* Iran rejects Turkey's accusations
* MKO says Iran attacks base in Iraq
* Demonstrators clash over jailing of liberal cleric
* Arab leaders conclude Jeddah meeting
* Ecevit says Iran pushing Islamism on Turkey
* Iran objects to Demirel remarks in Turk scarf row
* Iran papers blast Turk charges of exporting Islam
* Iran welcomes 'greater realism' from U.S.
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Friday
May 14, 1999
* Khatami's Saudi visit a landmark
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia, May 14 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami
starts a landmark visit to Saudi Arabia on Saturday, giving Riyadh a chance
to boost ties with the moderate Iranian leader and improve Gulf stability.
``The Saudis think they can do business with a moderate. They see self
interest in supporting Khatami and they know there is a radical camp in
Iran against Khatami, so it serves their interest to support him,'' said
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* Assad, Khatami discuss Iran-Arab ties
DAMASCUS, May 14 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and
Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad on Friday held their second round of talks,
covering Iran's ties with Arab countries, bilateral cooperation and relations
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* Khatami tells Moslems to set aside disputes
DAMASCUS, May 14 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami urged
Moslem nations on Friday to resolve disputes and tolerate their differences
for the sake of regional security ... FULL
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* Khatami assures PLO opposition of support
DAMASCUS, May 14 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami assured
radical Palestinian leaders, opposed to peace with Israel, during a meeting
on Friday of continued support for their goals, a Palestinian official
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* U.S. sees Iran 99/2000 wheat imports at 5.5 mln tons
WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department on Thursday
forecast Iran to import 5.5 million tonnes of wheat in 1999/2000, up sharply
from this year and the second highest level on record ... FULL
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* Jannati blasts secular Turks as bigots
TEHRAN, May 14 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian cleric blasted Turkey's
secular establishment as bigoted on Friday for attacking a woman MP who
wore an Islamic headscarf in parliament. Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati told a
congregation at Tehran's mass Friday prayers that the Turks were behaving
in this way to please Europeans and ease their way into the European Union
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Thursday
May 13, 1999
* Iran's Khatami holds talks with ally Syria
DAMASCUS, May 13 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami met
Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad on Thursday in Damascus, the first stop in
a landmark tour aimed at bettering Tehran's ties with its Arab neighbours.
Khatami, accompanied by Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, is expected to
bolster Tehran's strong ties with regional ally Syria which has promised
to help the moderate Iranian leader in his quest for warmer regional relations
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* Tehran city council narrows list of mayoral candidates to nine
TEHRAN, May 13 (AFP) - Tehran city council has narrowed the list of
74 applicants to be the capital's new mayor to nine serious candidates,
a conservative English-language daily said Thursday. "Out of a total
of 74 candidates nominated by different groups, organizations and guilds,
nine have been chosen by the Tehran city council for the post of Tehran
mayorship," Kayhan International quoted the council's spokeswoman,
Saddiqeh Vasmaqi, as saying ... FULL
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* Iran protests to Turkey over border killings
TEHRAN, May 13 (Reuters) - Iran has protested to Turkey over the reported
killing of seven Iranians in a border region, amid rising tension between
the two neighbours, newspapers reported on Thursday. They quoted the Iranian
Foreign Ministry as saying it summoned Turkey's ambassador on Wednesday
to receive Iran's protest over the incident ...
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* Senior clerics denounce any resumption of ties with U.S.
TEHRAN, May 13 (AFP) - Senior Iranian clerics denounced any resumption
of ties between Tehran and Washington, its arch-foe since the 1979 Islamic
revolution, in a statement issued on Thursday after their annual meeting
here. The clerics stressed the "Islamic Republic's unbending stance
towards the great American Satan" given that "the US still continues
its hostile policies towards Iran." ...
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* Iran holds day of solidarity with Kosovo Albanians
TEHRAN, May 13 (AFP) - Hundreds of tents sprang up all over Tehran Thursday
to collect donations for the victims of the war in Kosovo, as Iran held
a day of solidarity with the Kosovar Moslems ... FULL
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* Iranian girl learns surgery's not for the best
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - An Iranian teen-ager's hopes for surgery that would
restore vision in one eye were dashed when, after an exhausting trip to
America, doctors determined the operation might do more harm than good.
But doctors say they have not given up all hope, and are contacting experts
across the country for other opinions ...
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Wednesday
May 12, 1999
* Opposition figures pledge to expose former minister's murderers
May 11, 1999 (Neshat) - Three hundred and twenty five political and
cultural personalities have issued a statement marking the passage of 170
days since the murder of [former labour minister] Daryush and [his wife]
Parvaneh Foruhar. The statement, in part, says: "Like-minded people
of this land, once again, raise their cry for justice against the ill-tempered
cowards, whose criminal deed has bereaved the Iranian nation. We are impatiently
waiting for the open trial of those who directed, planned and perpetrated
these horrific crimes." ... FULL
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* Two political prisoners executed - group
May 11, (ORWI) - Two political prisoners were executed last week after
years of imprisonment, the Democratic Party of Kurdistan reported ...
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* Former Tehran mayor shares prison cell with 200 inmates: paper
TEHRAN, May 12 (AFP) - Former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi,
jailed last week for corruption, is sharing a prison cell with some 200
inmates, an Iranian newspaper reported Wednesday. "Karbaschi is kept
in a big prison cell in Evin prison (in northern Tehran) with some 200
inmates whose inability to pay back debts to their creditors brought them
to prison," the government paper Iran said ... FULL
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* U.S. senator urges simple rules for Iran sales
WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. senator urged the Clinton
administration on Tuesday to make its new rules for food and medicine sales
to Iran as simple as possible ... FULL
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* Syria, Iran summit to improve Tehran's Arab ties
DAMASCUS, May 12 (Reuters) - Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami will strengthen bilateral ties and pave the
way for better Iranian-Arab relations in talks starting here on Thursday,
a senior official said on Wednesday ... FULL
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Tuesday
May 11, 1999
* Khamenei declines to pardon jailed Tehran mayor
TEHRAN, May 11 (Reuters) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
has rejected calls to issue a pardon for Tehran's former moderate mayor,
who was jailed after being convicted for graft. In a letter read in parliament
on Tuesday, Khamenei said: ``The authority to resolve such matters lies
with the judiciary, and it is in the good of the country and the people
if legal rulings are not undermined with different motives.'' ... FULL
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* Khatami calls for greater tolerance
TEHRAN, May 11 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami appealed to
the various political factions in the country on Tuesday to stop viewing
each other as "rivals" and to display greater tolerance. "The
various factions should refrain from making certain issues bigger than
they are in order to drive out their rivals from the scene," the official
IRNA news agency quoted Khatami as saying during a meeting with senior
clerics in Tehran ... FULL
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* Khatami tour seen finalising Saudi rapprochement
TEHRAN, May 11 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami is set
to reap the fruits of his policy of detente during a coming regional tour
which will include a visit to Saudi Arabia, the Gulf oil power long suspicious
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* 74 candidates seek post of mayor of Tehran
TEHRAN, May 11 (AFP) - A total of 74 would-be candidates for mayor of
Tehran have put their names forward for consideration, the chairman of
the municipal council announced here Tuesday. They are all hoping to replace
the reformer Gholamhossein Karbaschi, who started a two-year jail sentence
for corruption last week ... FULL
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* Turkey protests against alleged Iranian support for Islamists
ANKARA, May 11 (AFP) - Iran's ambassador to Turkey was summoned to the
foreign ministry here Tuesday in a row over alleged Iranian support for
a Turkish deputy who caused a scandal by wearing a traditional Moslem headscarf
in parliament ... FULL
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* Iran rejects Turkey's accusations of supporting Islamism
TEHRAN, May 11 (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday rejected accusations it was supporting
Islamism in Turkey, and called on Ankara to "avoid making statements
that run counter to the growing relations between the two countries."...
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* MKO says Iran attacks base in Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 11 (Reuters) - The armed Iranian opposition group Mujahideen
Khalq said on Tuesday Iranian government agents had attacked one of its
bases in Iraq, killing an Iraqi ... FULL
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Monday
May 10, 1999
* Demonstrators clash over jailing of liberal cleric
TEHRAN, May 9 (AFP) - Iranian fundamentalists disrupted a demonstration
by moderate students on Sunday over the jailing of a liberal cleric accused
of spreading propoganda hostile to the Islamic regime. Around 700 students
gathered at Tehran university to call for the release of Mohsen Kadivar,
a leading light of the reform movement in Iran who began an 18-month jail
term last month ... FULL
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* Arab leaders conclude Jeddah meeting
JEDDAH, May 10 (Reuters) - Gulf Arab leaders held a one-day informal
gathering in Saudi Arabia on Monday at a time when non-Arab neighbour Iran
is trying to rebuild ties with them ... FULL
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* Ecevit says Iran pushing Islamism on Turkey.
ANKARA, May 9 (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit on Sunday
accused neighbouring Iran of trying to promote radical Islam inside Turkey,
where a debate is raging over the place of the Islamic headscarf ...
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* Iran objects to Demirel remarks in Turk scarf row
TEHRAN, May 9 (Reuters) - Iran has objected to remarks by Turkey's President
Suleyman Demirel implicating Iran in a row over a Turkish woman MP's insistence
on wearing a Moslem scarf in parliament, newspapers reported on Sunday
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* Iran papers blast Turk charges of exporting Islam
TEHRAN, May 10 (Reuters) - Iranian newspapers on Monday rejected Turkish
charges that Islamic Iran is trying to export its radical religious ideology
to its secularist neighbour ... FULL
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* Iran welcomes 'greater realism' from U.S.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister was quoted Saturday as welcoming
``greater realism'' from the United States toward the Islamic republic,
but said Europe was doing more to improve relations ... FULL
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