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Friday
December 8, 2000
Russia Informs U.S. on arms control
MOSCOW (AP) - Seeking to ease concerns about Russian arms sales to Iran,
Russia informed a high-ranking U.S. delegation in Moscow this week about
a new policy aimed at increasing control over weapons sales, officials
said Friday. A committee will oversee the sale of military supplies to
foreign countries, and the government will make annual reports on arms
sales, according to a government decree published on the Foreign Ministry's
Web site >>>
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Wounded Palestinians arrive in Tehran for treatment
TEHRAN, Dec 8 (AFP) - Fourteen Palestinians wounded in clashes with
Israeli security forces arrived in Tehran Friday for medical treatment,
the official IRNA news agency reported. The wounded, between 12 and 20
years old, were received by a number of senior officials, including General
Rahim Safavi, chief of the elite Revolutionary Guards >>>
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Man accused of bilking hotel claims to be shah's nephew
December 8, (Denver Rocky Mountain News) -- The man told everyone he
was a nephew of the late Shah of Iran and came to Denver to open a big
motel and market his patented disposable toothbrush. Whoever he really
is, he's in the Denver jail now, accused of failing to pay a $21,000 hotel
bill at the tiny, luxurious LoDo Inn on Wazee Street, owned by former FBI
agent Tom Broemmel and his wife, Lani Lee >>>
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* Russia Informs U.S. on arms control
* Wounded Palestinians arrive in Tehran for treatment
* Man accused of bilking hotel claims to be shah's nephew
* Khatami's claims on lacking power will spark unrest says
top conservative
* Khatami rivals stand no chance in next year's presidential
vote: paper
* Victory of Bush "preferable" for Iran-US ties:
top conservative
* Iran Foresees End to U.S. Sanctions
* U.S., Russia complete arms talks
* Khatami tells kids: Keep hope
* Khatami says culture minister's resignation is "under
review"
* U.S. officials grill Russia over arms sales plans
* Khatami seeks grass-roots solidarity against conservative
onslaught
* US to urge Moscow to reverse resumption of military cooperation
with Iran
* Senior Iraqi foreign ministry official arrives in Tehran
* Iran drops plan to manufacture Islamic rival for Barbie
* Moscow to earn up to $7billion in arms sales to Iran: lawmaker
* Iran maintains "dialogue" with EU despite cancellation
of Paris meeting
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Thursday
December 7, 2000
Khatami's claims on lacking power will spark unrest says top conservative
TEHRAN, Dec 7 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami's recent claims that
he lacks sufficient power to do his job could lead the country into social
crisis, a leading right-winger was quoted by the IRNA news agency as saying
Thursday. Mohammad-Reza Bahonar, a former MP and secretary general of Iran's
Islamic Engineers Society, an influential political group linked to the
right wing, said the moderate president's remarks could "lead the
country into an incurable crisis." >>>
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Khatami rivals stand no chance in next year's presidential vote:
paper
TEHRAN, Dec 7 (AFP) - Nobody who might choose to run against President
Mohammad Khatami in next year's presidential elections would stand a chance
of beating him, despite his many "inabilities," a leading reformist
newspaper said Thursday. There is a "consensus that if Mohammad Khatami
officially declares his candidacy, no one would have a chance to beat him
and he will be the sole candidate," the English-Language Iran News
said in an editorial >>>
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Victory of Bush "preferable" for Iran-US ties: top conservative
TEHRAN, Dec 7 (AFP) - An influential Iranian conservative said a republican
victory in the US elections was "preferable" for Tehran with
prospects for a possible lifting of US oil sanctions, press reports said
Thursday. "If Bush wins, it will be certain that oil companies will
have more liberty to conclude contracts with Iran. It is preferable for
us, and it is (even) possible that oil sanctions against Iran will be lifted,"
said Mohammad-Javad Larijani >>>
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Iran Foresees End to U.S. Sanctions
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran believes the United States is likely to change
its policy toward the Islamic republic and lift sanctions within the next
year under pressure from oil companies, an Iranian official said Thursday.
Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Kazempour Ardebili said American companies
have suffered as a result of unilateral U.S. sanctions and have ``all along
shown their willingness to contribute to development of Iran's oil and
gas'' resources >>>
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U.S., Russia complete arms talks
MOSCOW (AP) - Talks this week between U.S. and Russian officials on
arms issues, including a dispute over Russia's failure to freeze sales
to Iran, were frank and thorough, a U.S. official said Thursday. The Russian
government had announced late last month that it would no longer abide
by a secret 1995 agreement between Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites)
and then-Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to freeze sales of
tanks and battlefield weapons to Iran >>>
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Wednesday
December 6, 2000
Khatami tells kids: Keep hope
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's moderate President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday
urged thousands of students not to lose hope in the reform movement he
launched when he took power in 1997. Khatami, who was addressing an estimated
10,000 students at Tehran's Tarbiat-e-Modarres University on Iran's annual
student day, said the reforms were a new experience for Iran and that the
country was still in the process of learning to respect opposing viewpoints
and experiencing democracy within an Islamic framework >>>
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Khatami says culture minister's resignation is "under review"
TEHRAN, Dec 6 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammed Khatami affirmed Wednesday
that he had not yet accepted the resignation of one of the country's leading
reformers, Minister of Culture Ataollah Mohajerani. "Mohajerani is
a very dear colleague," Khatami told several thousand students at
Tarbiat-e-Modaress, a university facility, in northeast Tehran >>>
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U.S. officials grill Russia over arms sales plans
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. and Russian officials began talks Wednesday
on arms sales, with the American side concerned over Moscow's plans to
restart weapons sales to Iran. ``The talks have started, they will be sitting
all day today,'' an official from the U.S. embassy in Moscow said >>>
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Tuesday
December 5, 2000
Khatami seeks grass-roots solidarity against conservative onslaught
TEHRAN, Dec 5 (AFP) - Embattled reformist Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami returns to his grass-roots support among the young Wednesday as
he mulls standing for re-election in the face of fierce conservative opposition.
Khatami will address students and hold a question-and-answer session at
the reformist stronghold of Tehran University on the annual Students Day,
his office said >>>
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US to urge Moscow to reverse resumption of military cooperation with
Iran
MOSCOW, Dec 5 (AFP) - The United States will urge Moscow to reverse
its decision to resume military cooperation with Iran at a meeting of US-Russian
experts in Moscow Wednesday, a US embassy official said Tuesday. Asked
by AFP if the US delegation would press Russia to stand by a bilateral
accord banning arms sales to Iran, the official replied: "Yes >>> FULL
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Senior Iraqi foreign ministry official arrives in Tehran
TEHRAN, Dec 5 (AFP) - Iraq's under-secretary for foreign affairs, Riad
al-Qaissi, arrived in Iran late Tuesday for an official six-day visit,
the IRNA news agency reported. Qaissi, who arrived overland, said in the
western town of Korrmanshar that this visit was aimed at "improving
relations between the two countries on the human level and resolving the
issues of prisoners of war," which has still not been settled 12 years
after a war between the two countries ended >>>
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Iran drops plan to manufacture Islamic rival for Barbie
TEHRAN, Dec 5 (AFP) - A plan to protect Iranian youth from the "negative
influence" of the popular US Barbie and Ken dolls, by replacing them
with home-made "Islamic" substitutes, was abandoned, the official
IRNA news agency reported Tuesday. "Four years after the promise to
commercialise the dolls -- Sara and Dara -- they still have not been produced,"
said Majid Qaderi, the director-general of the state-run educational center
for youth >>>
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Monday
December 4, 2000
Moscow to earn up to $7billion in arms sales to Iran: lawmaker
MOSCOW, Dec 4 (AFP) - Russia's decision to renew arms negotiations with
Tehran will prove "very lucrative" for Moscow, which could earn
up to seven billion dollars over the next few years, said a senior lawmaker
on Monday. "Russian-Iranian military cooperation should resume with
a strict respect for accords forbidding sales of nuclear arms," the
head of the lower house's defence committee, General Andrei Nikolayev,
told a news conference >>>
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Iran maintains "dialogue" with EU despite cancellation
of Paris meeting
TEHRAN, Dec 4 (AFP) - Iran will maintain a "dialogue" with
the European Union despite its cancellation of a planned meeting this week
over a protocol row with host country France, the foreign ministry announced
Monday. "The dialogue will continue even if this session has been
cancelled," ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi told reporters at
a press conference in Tehran >>>
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