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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
* German Businessman Back From Iran
* German businessman to leave Iran soon after trial
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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 >>>
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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
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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."
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 >>>
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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
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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
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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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
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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 >>>
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