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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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
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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 ...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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