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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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." >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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