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November 1-5, 1999 / Aban 10-14, 1378

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* Iranian television shows coffins of slain drug-fighting policemen
* In Iran, "Great Satan" means great pizza
* Frenchmen arrested in murder probe of Iranian student in Germany

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* Iran vows ongoing struggle against U.S.
* Maverick cleric says Iran can't ignore US forever
* Americans held hostage by Iran forgo bitterness
* Traffickers kill 35 police on Pakistan border: UN
* MKO opposition vows revenge for missile attack
* MKO, Iraqis, suffer casualties in blast
* Moderate students mark US embassy seizure
* Khamenei denounces US, students march for peace
* Washington ready to build bridges with Iran
* Nouri vows to defend rights
* Iran right divided ahead of key polls
* Shamsolvaezin, editor of Neshat, arrested
* Press court jails students for "blasphemous" play: radio
* UN says freedoms of press & expression decreasing in Iran
* Students protest against mounting press clampdown
* Students assess 20 years since embassy seizure
* Khatami invited for landmark visit to Japan
* Nouri opens defence in clerical court
* Iran clerics group backs reformist colleague
* U.S. says efforts under way on behalf of Iran Jews
* Iran says has 110 centers to fight spread of AIDS
* Up to 28 injured in force 5.0 earthquake in Iran
* Khatami urges dialogue of cultures, hints at U.S.
* Khatami winds up Paris visit stressing warm ties
* Khatami pledges "just" trial for 13 Iranian Jews
* Khatami urges "dialogue"
* Khatami pledges no meddling in Mideast peace
* Khatami visit mobilises vociferous dissident group
* Khatami Paris trip shows "failure" of US

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Friday
November 5, 1999

* Iranian television shows coffins of slain drug-fighting policemen

TEHRAN, Nov 5 (AFP) - Iranian state television showed the coffins Friday of about 30 policemen slain in a clash with drug smugglers near the border with Pakistan. The television showed the images, filmed in the southeastern city of Zahedan near where the fighting occurred, without saying how many coffins there were ... FULL TEXT

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* In Iran, "Great Satan" means great pizza

TEHRAN, Nov 3 (AFP) - The United States may officially remain the "Great Satan," but there's no denying that a breezy US lifestyle -- fast food, baseball hats -- has captured the imagination of Iranians. With more than half the population under 30, Iran finds itself faced with a kind of "cultural invasion" from the United States despite a 20-year freeze in diplomatic relations ... FULL TEXT

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* Frenchmen arrested in murder probe of Iranian student in Germany

SARREGUEMINES, France, Nov 5 (AFP) - Three Frenchmen have been arrested in connection with the murder last month of an Iranian student in Germany, police said Friday in this eastern French town ... FULL TEXT

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Thursday
November 4, 1999

* Iran vows ongoing struggle against U.S.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Iranians rallied outside the former U.S. embassy Thursday, the 20th anniversary of the hostage crisis, burning American flags and vowing to renew the struggle against the ``Great Satan.'' Demonstrators also burned Uncle Sam in effigy while chanting ``Death to America'' and ``Death to Israel,'' familiar cries in the streets of Tehran over the past two decades ... FULL TEXT

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* Maverick cleric says Iran can't ignore US forever

TEHRAN, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Maverick Iranian cleric Abdollah Nouri on Thursday told a court trying him for political and religious dissent that Iran could no longer ignore the United States' position as biggest player in the international arena ... FULL TEXT

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* Americans held hostage by Iran forgo bitterness

WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (AFP) - The memory of his 444-day imprisonment at the hands of Iranian revolutionaries remains etched in his mind. But 20 years to the day after his capture, former US diplomat Michael Metrinko says: "The time for bitterness is past." ... FULL TEXT

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* Drug traffickers kill 35 Iranian police on Pakistan border: UN

TEHRAN, Nov 4 (AFP) - Thirty-five Iranian policemen were killed in a clash with armed drug-traffickers near the border with Pakistan Wednesday, United Nations official Antonio Mazzitelli told AFP Thursday ... FULL TEXT

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* MKO opposition vows revenge for missile attack

BAGHDAD, Nov 4 (AFP) - Iranian opposition group the People's Mujahedeen on Thursday vowed revenge against Tehran for a missile attack on one of its bases that left six dead and scores wounded ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
November 3, 1999

* MKO, Iraqis, suffer casualties in blast

BAGHDAD, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Iranian opposition forces based in Iraq have suffered heavy casualties in a explosion they say was caused by a Scud missile fired from Iran. Iraq's account of the Tuesday evening blast blamed the seven Iranian and Iraqi dead and the 78 wounded on ``a foreign state,'' without naming Iran or mentioning missiles ... FULL TEXT

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* Moderate students hold counter-rally to mark US embassy seizure

TEHRAN, Nov 3 (AFP) - Several hundred moderate Iranian students gathered outside the Tehran university mosque on Wednesday to mark the 20th anniversary of the hostage-taking at the US embassy here in a "spirit of dialogue." ... FULL TEXT

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* Khamenei denounces US, students march for peace

TEHRAN, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday marked the 20th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran with a denunciation of those who sought reconciliation with the ``Great Satan.'' But across town, at Tehran University, about 1,000 members of Iran's biggest student movement, whose forerunners engineered the 444-day hostage crisis, rallied against violence and in support of a dialogue of civilisations ... FULL TEXT

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* Washington ready to build bridges with Iran, but not to forget

WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (AFP) - Twenty years after Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran and held 53 US diplomats hostage for 444 days, US State Department officials here believe the time has come to turn the page in relations between the United States and Iran ... FULL TEXT

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* Nouri vows to defend rights

TEHRAN, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Maverick Iranian reformist Abdollah Nouri, on trial for political and religious dissent, pledged in court on Wednesday to defend citizens' constitutional rights. ``I will defend the constitutional rights of the people with all my power,'' Nouri said, defying continuous interruptions by the judge of the hardline Special Court for Clergy ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran right divided ahead of key polls

TEHRAN, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Iran's conservatives, having failed to turn back President Mohammad Khatami's liberal reforms, face growing dissent in their own ranks and it could hurt their chances in forthcoming parliamentary polls ... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
November 2, 1999

* Shamsolvaezin, editor of Neshat, arrested

TEHRAN, Nov 2 (AFP) - Iran's press court finally arrested veteran reformist newspaper editor Mashallah Shamsolvaezin Tuesday on a warrant issued more than two weeks ago and jailed him pending trial on November 8, his lawyer said. The move against Shamsolvaezin, who has repeatedly thumbed his nose at the courts by bringing new titles to the newsstands to replace banned newspapers, came as the same court jailed three student writers for blasphemy ... FULL TEXT

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* Press court jails students for "blasphemous" play: radio

TEHRAN, Nov 2 (AFP) - Iran's press court handed down three year jail sentences to two students charged with publishing an allegedly blasphemous play in a university magazine Tuesday, Iranian radio said. A third student was given a suspended sentence and a university professor was pardoned, the radio said ... FULL TEXT

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* UN says freedoms of press & expression decreasing in Iran

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 1 (AFP) - Freedoms of the press, expression and association are on the decline in Iran since the repression in July of student protests against the current regime, the United Nations said in a report released Monday ... FULL TEXT

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* Students protest against mounting press clampdown

TEHRAN, Nov 2 (AFP) - Some 600 students demonstrated in the provinces against the mounting clampdown by the conservative courts on Iran's fledgling reformist press, the government-run Iran paper reported Tuesday. "Some 600 male and female students from the Bu-Ali Sina and medical sciences universities staged a demonstration Sunday" in the western city of Hamedan, the paper said ... FULL TEXT

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* Students assess 20 years since embassy seizure

TEHRAN, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Members of Iran's biggest student movement gathered on Tuesday, 20 years after their forerunners seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran, to review two decades of activism that has seen the movement shed its militant image ... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami invited for landmark visit to Japan hot on heels of France trip

TEHRAN, Oct 31 (AFP) - Japan renewed an invitation for Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami to visit Sunday hot on the heels of his landmark trip to France, the official IRNA news agency reported ... FULL TEXT


Monday
November 1, 1999

* Nouri opens defence in clerical court

TEHRAN, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Outspoken Iranian reformist Abdollah Nouri on Monday opened his defence against charges of political and religious dissent that are expected to derail his campaign to become speaker of parliament. Nouri sat silently in the Tehran Special Court for Clergy as his lawyer, fellow cleric Mohsen Rahami, challenged libel charges presented by the chief of Iran's security police and the publisher of an obscure weekly as ``baseless.'' ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran clerics group backs reformist colleague

TEHRAN, Oct 30 (Reuters) - A group of Islamic scholars in Iran have voiced support for a maverick reformist cleric accused of political and religious dissent, and questioned the legality of the hardline court which began his trial on Saturday ... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. says efforts under way on behalf of Iran Jews

JERUSALEM, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official said clandestine efforts were taking place on behalf of a group of Iranian Jews detained in Iran on charges of spying for Israel. ``Suffice to say that there is a great deal going on behind the scenes including if I may say with the French, and the Germans, and the British and others who have much closer ties to Iran than we do,'' U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat said late on Sunday ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran says has 110 centers to fight spread of AIDS

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran has set up 110 centers to raise awareness about AIDS and prevent the spread of the disease, the official news agency IRNA reported Saturday ... FULL TEXT

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* Up to 28 injured in force 5.0 earthquake in Iran

TEHRAN, Nov 1 (Reuters) - At least 28 people were injured when an earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted the southern Iranian city of Kazeroun on Sunday, Tehran Radio said on Monday ... FULL TEXT

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