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Friday
September 1, 2000
Iran will crush all plots against regime: Rafsanjani
TEHRAN, Sept 1 (AFP) - Iran will crush all plots against the Islamic
regime, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of the powerful expediency council,
warned Friday. "The Islamic Republic will not longer tolerate the
plots against it, and will silence the voices of those who want to destroy
it," he said in a sermon at Friday prayers in Tehran university >>> FULL
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Earthquake in north-eastern Iran
TEHRAN, Sept 1 (AFP) - An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale
hit north-eastern Iran Friday, the official IRNA news agency reported Friday.
The agency said it had no details about casualties or damage >>>
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Index
* Iran will crush all plots against regime:
Rafsanjani
* Earthquake in north-eastern Iran
* US, Iranian Lawmakers Meet in N.Y.
* Officer alive and well despite Iraqi base MKO claims:
paper
* Foreign scientist ban at labs to end
* Drought dries out major river
* Norway, Iran Leaders To Meet; First Time Since Revolution
* Iran navy launches first domestically produced submarine
* Parliament speaker heads for parliamentary conference
in New York
* Mortar rounds hit eastern Tehran, none said hurt
* MKO claims series of attacks
* Influential cleric "dissatisfied" with Khatami
government
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Thursday
August 31, 2000
US, Iranian Lawmakers Meet in N.Y.
NEW YORK (AP) - For the first time since the Islamic revolution two
decades ago, a group of American and Iranian lawmakers met and discussed
U.S. sanctions against Tehran, the treatment of Iranian Jews and other
issues dividing the two countries, participants said Thursday. Lawmakers
from both Iran and the United States stressed that the 20-minute discussion
Wednesday night at a museum reception was an unofficial ``bumping into''
- not a formal, sit-down meeting - although both sides knew the other would
be attending >>>
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Wednesday
August 30, 2000
Officer alive and well despite Iraqi base MKO claims: paper
TEHRAN, Aug 30 (AFP) - A senior Iranian military officer denied claims
by the opposition People's Mujahedeen that it seriously wounded him in
a Tehran ambush, a conservative newspaper reported on Wednesday. "I
am absolutely safe and sound," the Tehran Times quoted Revolutionary
Guards Brigadier General Reza Seifollahi as saying. "There was a plan
to assassinate me but it was foiled before they reached me >>>
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Foreign scientist ban at labs to end
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists from ``sensitive'' countries such as China,
Russia and Iran are expected soon to resume normal ties with the Energy
Department's three nuclear weapons research labs, ending a 10-month ban
on virtually all such contact. Concerned about safeguarding nuclear secrets,
Congress last November barred scientists from 25 ``sensitive'' countries
from visiting the labs, having contact with lab scientists or access to
any computer systems at the facilities, even unclassified ones >>>
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Tuesday
August 29, 2000
Drought dries out major river
TEHRAN, August 29 (AFP) - Iran's Zayande river, which cuts through the
historical central city of Isfahan, has virtually dried up because of the
unprecedented drought wracking the nation, press reports said Tuesday.
The Zayande, best known from touristic photographs of it pouring through
the arches in Isfahan's famous Si-o-Sepol bridge, is completely dry except
for a few scattered pools of stagnant water, the reports said >>> FULL TEXT
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Norway, Iran Leaders To Meet; First Time Since Revolution
OSLO (AP)--Norway's prime minister agreed Monday to meet Iran 's president
in New York next week, the first meeting between the countries' top leaders
since Iran 's 1979 revolution. Norway downgraded its diplomatic relations
with Iran in 1995 to protest a death order against British writer Salman
Rushdie. The previous year, Iran called home its Oslo ambassador to protest
what it called Norway's hostile attitude >>>
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Iran navy launches first domestically produced submarine
TEHRAN, Aug 29 (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday launched its first domestically
manufactured submarine at a ceremony in the Persian Gulf port city of Bandar
Abbas, the official IRNA news agency reported. It said Defence Minister
Admiral Ali Shamkhani was among officials on hand for the launch of the
Al-Sabehat 15 submarine, which he said was ideally adapted for reconnaissance
work and the laying of mines >>>
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Monday
August 28, 2000
Parliament speaker heads for parliamentary conference in New York
TEHRAN, Aug 28 (AFP) - Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karrubi left Tehran
early Monday to take part in a world parliamentary conference in New York,
television reported. The parliament speaker, who is heading a high-ranking
parliamentary delegation, will attend the conference of parliament speakers
of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU) on August 30 and September 1 >>> FULL
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Mortar rounds hit eastern Tehran, none said hurt
TEHRAN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Five mortar rounds struck a former army base
in eastern Tehran early on Monday, but there were no casualties or damage,
the official IRNA news agency said. It said the rounds landed harmlessly
in an open expanse of the former base, in Heshmatieh, which was used to
house Iraqi POWs >>>
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MKO claims series of attacks
NICOSIA, Aug 26 (AFP) - The exiled armed opposition, the Iraqi based
People's Mujahedeen, said Saturday it had carried out a series of attacks
on Iranian army units in the west of the country over the past two days.
In a statement received by AFP in Nicosia, the Baghdad-based group said
it had carried out 15 large-scale operations in Khuzestan, Kermanshah and
Ilam provinces against Iranian army, state security and intelligence forces
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Influential cleric "dissatisfied" with Khatami government
President Mohammad Khatami's reformist government came under attack
Sunday by the speaker of Iran's influential Council of Experts, who said
he was "seriously dissatisfied" with the Khatami cabinet. Conservative
cleric Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, cited by the official IRNA news agency,
declined to name names but also blasted the Iranian press, whose licences
are issued by Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani >>>
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