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* Candidates barred
* Khatami and Nuri keep the vote in the family
* US elections may change their relations
* Iranian & Egyptian foreign ministers in rare meeting
* Cook defends renewed dialogue with Iran, Libya

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* Khatami's brother to lead main leftist party in polls
* Conservative claims CIA infiltrated government
* Large earthquake hits northern Iran
* Khamenei rejects criticism
* Rafsanjani links reformers with Iran abuses
* Services disagree whether to show killers' "confessions" on TV
* Karbaschi to launch new paper after receiving pardon
* New CIA Iran assessment sows confusion
* Alleged plane hijacker tried in Iran
* Tehran ex-mayor freed, returns to politics
* Karbaschi: cleric who gave up his turban for a suit
* Iran says rebels fire mortars across Iraq border
* 250,000 arrested over drugs and alcohol last year in Iran
* Motion to quash conviction of Abdollah Nouri rejected
* Karbaschi says he may not have to go back to jail
* Date set for police court martial over July unrest in Iran
* Iranian official calls for US consulate in free zone
* Washington lukewarm about Tehran's "ready to negotiate" statement
* Khatami's brother denies reformers split
* Iran asks press to avoid stoking tensions ahead of elections
* Nateq-Nuri says he wants to make way for newcomers
* Rafsanjani hits back at critics of candidacy

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Friday
January 28, 2000

* Candidates barred

TEHRAN, Iran ­­ Some 650 potential candidates have been barred from competing in next month's legislative elections, a hard-line Iranian council that screens candidates said Thursday. Ayatollah Reza Ostadi, spokesman of the Guardians Council, was quoted by Iranian television as saying that some 600 out of 7,000 hopefuls were disqualified by the Interior Ministry and electoral supervisory councils, while 50 others were directly rejected by the Council >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khatami and Nuri keep the vote in the family

TEHRAN, Jan 28 (AFP) - The names of Khatami and Nuri, two of the most prestigious in Iranian politics, will appear on the ballot for next month's parliamentary elections, with their owners hoping to form a dynamic duo to help push forward reform -- backing the policies of their elder brothers. Mohammad-Reza Khatami, 40, and Ali-Reza Nuri, 36, have made their own careers -- both are doctors -- far from the political arena, where they are still novices >>> FULL TEXT

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* US elections may change their relations

Jan 28, 2000, TEHRAN, Jan 28 (AFP) - Iranian-US contacts are on the rise and upcoming elections in both countries may lead to a political dialogue, and even the re-establishment of ties severed 20 years ago, analysts said here. This month Iranian footballers have played a friendly against the United States in Los Angeles, American wrestlers took part in an international championship bout in Iran and US mountain climbers scaled 5,671-meter-high (18,700-foot-high) Mount Damavand, considered the "roof of Iran." >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iranian & Egyptian foreign ministers in rare meeting

TEHRAN, Jan 28 (AFP) - The Iranian and Egyptian foreign ministers held a rare meeting Thursday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, amid mounting moves by the Middle East's two most populous states to improve their long-broken relations. Kamal Kharazi and Amr Mussa discussed bilateral relations and "improving trade ties" as well as "growing Israeli threats to the Middle East" and the "deplorable situation" in Chechnya, the official IRNA news agency said Friday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Cook defends renewed dialogue with Iran, Libya

LONDON, Jan 28 (AFP) - Britain's Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said Friday his policy of renewing contacts with Iran and Libya had brought results. "Critical engagement may require involvement without illusions about the regimes with which we negotiate," he said, in a speech in London setting out his foreign policy goals >>> FULL TEXT

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Thursday
January 27, 2000

* Khatami's brother to lead main leftist party in polls

TEHRAN, Jan 27 (AFP) - Mohammad-Reza Kahatami, younger brother of Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami, will head the list of the leading leftist Participation Front in next month's polls, the party said Thursday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iranian conservative claims CIA infiltrated government

TEHRAN, Jan 27 (AFP) - A leading conservative Iranian theologian, Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, has accused the US Central Intelligence Agency of infiltrating the reformist government, a press report said Thursday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Large earthquake hits northern Iran

TEHRAN, Jan 27 (AFP) - An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale shook northwest Iran Thursday, the official news agency IRNA reported >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
January 26, 2000

* Khamenei rejects criticism

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that his authority is indisputable, apparently rejecting criticism from reformists who say he is not above the law. His remarks come less than a month before crucial Parliamentary elections in which his increasingly unpopular hard-line supporters are being challenged by moderate reformists >>> FULL TEXT

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* Rafsanjani links reformers with Iran abuses

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has linked Iran's reform camp to widespread hangings and other extreme measures after the 1979 Islamic revolution, a newspaper reported Wednesday. It was Rafsanjani's strongest attack on militant reformers behind President Mohammad Khatami, many of whom are wary of the former president' active return to politics by standing as a candidate in parliamentary elections on February 18 >>> FULL TEXT

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* Services disagree whether to show killers' "confessions" on TV

TEHRAN, Jan 26 (AFP) - Iranian legal and intelligence services are at odds over whether the "confessions" of those accused of the killings of several prominent intellectuals just over a year ago should be shown on television. "The intelligence ministry opposed the broadcasting of this film, while the military judicial organisation believes it would be helpful to show it on television," deputy parliamentary speaker Hassan Ruhani said Wednesday, quoted by the official IRNA news agency >>> FULL TEXT

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* Karbaschi to launch new paper after receiving pardon

TEHRAN, Jan 26 (AFP) - Tehran's former reformist mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi marked his release from prison following a pardon from Iran's spiritual leader by announcing Wednesday that he will shortly launch a new newspaper, Ham-Mihan (Compatriot). The announcement comes three weeks before the February 18 parliamentary elections, in which reformist forces are hoping to end the conservative stranglehold on the country's affairs >>> FULL TEXT

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* New CIA Iran assessment sows confusion

LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The Central Intelligence Agency has sown confusion among United States policymakers and irked some allies by saying it can no longer rule out the possibility that Iran may be able to make a nuclear weapon >>> FULL TEXT

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* Alleged plane hijacker tried in Iran

TEHRAN, Jan 26 (AFP) - An Iranian accused of hijacking an oil ministry plane to Iraq in 1993 was tried in Tehran's revolutionary court Wednesday, the official IRNA news agency reported. It named the man as Ali-Reza Karami Kheirabadi, and said the trial had been carried out "perfectly legally" in the presence of oil ministry officials and his state-appointed lawyer >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
January 25, 2000

* Tehran ex-mayor freed, returns to politics

TEHRAN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The former mayor of Tehran has been pardoned of his conviction for graft, freeing one of Iran's most influential reformist politicians just weeks ahead of key parliamentary polls. State television, quoting the judiciary, said on Tuesday that Gholamhossein Karbaschi's request for pardon had been granted by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei >>> FULL TEXT

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* Karbaschi: cleric who gave up his turban for a suit

TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - Jailed former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi, who was granted an amnesty Tuesday, is a cleric turned Western-style administrator whose vast public works schemes transformed the face of the capital but made him an easy target for charges of corruption. Schooled in Islamic theology in the holy city of Qom, Karbaschi reached the rank of hojatoleslam, one below ayatollah >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran says rebels fire mortars across Iraq border

TEHRAN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Rebels based in neighbouring Iraq launched mortar attacks across Iran's western border but there were no casualties, Iranian state television reported on Tuesday. It said the Mujahideen Khalq armed opposition group fired several mortars across the border in an area in Ilam province late on Monday. ``This useless action did not cause any casualties or damage,'' the television said >>> FULL TEXT

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* 250,000 arrested over drugs and alcohol last year in Iran

TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - A total of 250,000 people were arrested in Iran last year for dealing in and consuming drugs and alcohol, the secretary of the government's anti-narcotics bureau, Mohammad Falah, was quoted as saying Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
January 24, 2000

* Motion to quash conviction of Abdollah Nouri rejected

TEHRAN, Jan 22 (AFP) - Iran's state prosecutor Ayatollah Morteza Moqtadai has rejected a request to quash the conviction of leading reformer Abdollah Nuri for Islamic propaganda, state radio said Saturday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Karbaschi says he may not have to go back to jail

TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - The reformist former mayor of Tehran, Gholamhossein Karbaschi, who was imprisoned for corruption two years ago, said Monday that he may not be required to return to jail when a period of prison leave ends later this week >>> FULL TEXT

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* Date finally set for police court martial over July unrest in Iran

TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - Tehran's military court has finally set a date for the trial of the capital's sacked police chief Farhad Nazari and 19 other officers over the violent suppression of a student demonstration last July, newspapers said Monday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iranian official calls for US consulate in free zone

TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - The head of the free trade area on the Iranian Gulf island of Kish called in an interview published Thursday for the United States to be allowed to open a consulate on the island >>> FULL TEXT

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* Washington lukewarm about Tehran's "ready to negotiate" statement

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (AFP) - The United States on Monday gave a lukewarm reaction to comments from Tehran that Iran is ready to step up diplomatic dialogue with the United States >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khatami's brother denies reformers split ahead of February polls

TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - The younger brother of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami Sunday denied that his reformist supporters were split ahead of key parliamentary elections next month despite mounting divisions over the candidacy of a longtime moderate ally >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran asks press to avoid stoking tensions ahead of elections

TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - Iran's deputy culture minister on Sunday asked Tehran newspapers to avoid stoking tensions on the eve of anniversary of the Islamic revolution and ahead of key parliamentary elections next month >>> FULL TEXT

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* Nateq-Nuri says he wants to make way for newcomers

TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - The speaker of Iran's parliament, leading conservative Ali Akbar Nateq-nuri, explained Monday his decision not to run in the upcoming elections, saying he wanted to make way for newcomers >>> FULL TEXT

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