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* Albright readies Iran announcement
* Iran says U.S. export cover could help food trade
* Doctors more upbeat on condition of shot
Hajjarian
* Author of death threat against Hajjarian arrested: press
* Iran refuses accused Jews to choose lawyers
* Iran bows to complaints over Afghan refugee deportations
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* Doctors more upbeat on condition of
shot Hajjarian
* Human rights progress in Iran
* Rafsanjani accuses US over recent attacks in Iran
* Building destroyed, 40 hurt, in Tehran fire festival
* Iraq says it shot down Iranian drone
* Iran denounces delivery of "ultra-modern" to
Israel
* German editors return to Iran for book fair
* U.S. seen easing Iran trade sanctions this week
* Reformers blame hard-liners for violence
* Iranians urged to pray for reformer
* Leader of Iranian Zoroastrian community dies
* MKO claims Iranian jets tried to bomb camp
* President Khatami visits Hajarian in hospital
* Reformers rally behind stricken leader
* MKO claims Tehran mortar attack
* Clinton extends 1995 sanctions against
Iran oil
* Student tells police trial of "tunnel of terror"
* Rafsanjani attacks Belgian probe as "counter-revolutionary"
plot
* World Bank likely to OK Iran loans
* Iranians indicted for spying
* Reformers start talks to build parliamentary bloc
* Mesbah denounces reformist policies
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Thursday
March 16, 2000
* Albright readies Iran announcement
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Clinton administration is setting the stage for
a major policy announcement designed to encourage reformists in Iran.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will make a major speech here Friday
to the American-Iranian Council, a private group based in Princeton, N.J.,
that seeks better relations with Tehran, State Department spokesman James
P. Rubin said today >>>
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* Iran says U.S. export cover could help food trade
TEHRAN, March 15 (Reuters) - Iran said on Wednesday it was ready to
buy farm goods and medicine from the United States, but indicated that
purchases were hampered by a lack of U.S. export guarantees. ``The Americans
have allowed the sale of grain and medicine to Iran to break into a new
market. In any case, we are ready to buy at competitive prices,'' Iranian
Commerce Minister Mohammad Shariatmadari said >>>
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* Doctors more upbeat on condition of shot Hajjarian
TEHRAN, March 15 (AFP) - Doctors treating shot Iranian reformist politician
Said Hajarian were more upbeat on his condition Wednesday, saying there
was growing hope he would pull through. Dr Mohammad Ghodsi, spokesman
for Hajarian's medical team, told journalists Hajarian's blood circulation
was under full control and the assistance to his breathing from a ventilator
would be reduced over the next few days >>>
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* Author of death threat against Hajjarian arrested: press
TEHRAN, March 16 (AFP) - The alleged author of a death threat against
leading Iranian reformist Said Hajarian before Sunday's attempt on his
life has been arrested, a press report said Thursday, quoting a government
official. The daily Kar-o Karegar, quoting an official of the intelligence
ministry, said the man was named Ahmadi, but gave no further information
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* Iran refuses accused Jews to choose lawyers
NEW YORK, March 16 (AFP) - A judge in the Iranian city of Shiraz, who
will preside over the trial of 13 Jews on espionage charges, has refused
to let them choose their own lawyers, according to a Jewish advocacy group
based here. In a statement released Wednesday, the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations (CPMAJO) said "the judge is
insisting on court appointed attorneys. >>>
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* Iran bows to complaints over Afghan refugee deportations
TEHRAN, March 16 (AFP) - Iran told representatives of refugee organisations
Thursday it would concentrate on voluntary repatriation of Afghans living
in the country, implying that a wave of deportations is over, a source
with one of the organisations told AFP. "Iran considers it a priority
to implement the agreement concluded in February" with the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the source said >>>
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Wednesday
March 15, 2000
* Doctors more upbeat on condition of shot Hajjarian
TEHRAN, March 15 (AFP) - Doctors treating shot Iranian reformist politician
Said Hajarian were more upbeat on his condition Wednesday, saying there
was growing hope he would pull through. Iranian neurologist Ghahramani
Ghadjar, who was flown in from New York, said Hajarian's brain was functioning
and there was no risk of blood clots >>>
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* Human rights progress in Iran, but improvement still needed: report
GENEVA, March 15 (AFP) - The human rights situation in Iran has significantly
improved in a number of areas but the law relating to it needs improvement,
a UN report said Wednesday. "Iran is a dynamic society and in the
period under review, significant progress has become evident in a number
of areas, but not in all," the report by special representative Maurice
Danby Copithorne said >>>
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* Rafsanjani accuses US over recent attacks in Iran
TEHRAN, March 15 (AFP) - Iran's former president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani
on Wednesday accused the United States of being behind the recent wave
of violence in the country, in a bid to destabilise the regime. Rafsanjani
drew a common link between a February mortar attack that damaged his offices
in Tehran, Sunday's assassination bid against leading reformist Said Hajarian
and Monday's mortar attack in the capital. One way or another, they were
all organised by Washington, he said >>>
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* Building destroyed, 40 hurt, clashes with police in Tehran fire
festival
TEHRAN, March 15 (AFP) - Police riot squads clashed with young Iranians
celebrating an age-old fire festival frowned on by the regime's conservatives,
local residents said Wednesday. Groups of youths in the western Tehran
suburb of Pars smashed shop and bank windows when police tried to stop
them lighting bonfires or throwing firecrackers in the street. Before dispersing
they shouted slogans hostile to Iran's leaders >>>
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* Iraq says it shot down Iranian drone
BAGHDAD, March 15 (AFP) - Iraq shot down an Iranian pilotless reconnaissance
aircraft near the border on Wednesday, the official news agency INA reported.
"Our heroic anti-aircraft defence today at 9:36 (0636 GMT) shot down
an Iranian drone plane which violated our airspace," the air defence
commander told INA, which did not name him >>>
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* Iran denounces delivery of "ultra-modern" US missiles
to Israel
TEHRAN, March 15 (AFP) - Iran denounced the United States on Wednesday
for destabilising the Middle East balance of power by delivering "ultra-modern"
missiles to Israel. Defence ministry spokesman Keyvan Khosravi said the
delivery of the missiles came as the US was trying to limit the conventional
defence activities of other states in the region, without regard for their
rights >>>
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* German editors return to Iran for book fair in sign of thawing
relations
FRANKFURT, March 15 (AFP) - For the first time in a decade, German editors
plan to attend a book fair in Tehran in May, in the latest sign of a thawing
in bilateral relations. The editors will attend the Tehran Book Fair from
May 4-14, organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair said in a communique >>> FULL
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Tuesday
March 14, 2000
* U.S. seen easing Iran trade sanctions this week
WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) - The United States was expected to ease
some import bans on Iranian goods this week, U.S. officials said on Tuesday,
in what would mark a step toward a thaw in two decades of icy relations.
White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said there might be an announcement
later this week on Iran. Other U.S. officials said the administration would
likely announce an easing of a ban of non-energy imports from Iran, but
had no further details. >>>
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* Reformers blame hard-liners for violence
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian political factions closed ranks on Tuesday
to condemn the shooting of a prominent reformer, but they split over blame
as reformists accused hard-liners of provoking the attack with inflammatory
speeches. Reformers close to President Mohammad Khatami singled out Ayatollah
Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, a hard-liner known for his strident attacks
on democracy and attempts to justify violence to stop reforms which he
sees as threats to Islamic values. >>>
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* Iranians urged to pray for reformer
TEHRAN, Iran Tehran's city council urged Iranians today to
pray for a reformer gravely wounded in an assassination attempt, an appeal
that in this country usually indicates little hope for recovery and imminent
death. Saeed Hajjarian, who is in his late 40s, has been in a coma with
a bullet lodged in the back of his neck since Sunday, when he was shot
in the face by an unknown assailant >>>
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* Leader of Iranian Zoroastrian community dies
TEHRAN, March 14 (AFP) - The religious leader of the Iranian Zoroastrian
community, Dastur Rostam Dinyar Shahzadi, has died at the age of 85, the
Iranian Zoroastrian Association announced in a statement issued on Tuesday
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* MKO claims Iranian jets tried to bomb camp
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - An Iranian opposition group in exile claimed that
Iranian jets tried to bomb its military camp in Iraq but were driven off
by the camp's air defense units. The Mujahedeen Khalq said in a statement
that the jets wanted to attack Camp Anzali, 75 miles northeast of Baghdad
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Monday
March 13, 2000
* President Khatami visits Hajarian in hospital
TEHRAN, March 13 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami rushed straight
from the airport to the bedside of prominent reformist Said Hajarian, critically
injured in a shooting, on his return from a regional tour Monday. Khatami,
accompanied by Health Minister Mohammad Farhadi, spent 10 minutes with
Hajarian and came out looking "extremely sad," journalists at
the hospital said. >>>
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* Reformers rally behind stricken leader
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's broad reformist movement vowed on Monday to
press on with its campaign for change, undeterred by an assassin's bullet
that left one of its leading lights fighting for his life in a Tehran hospital.
In an outpouring of support for Saeed Hajjarian, one of the architects
of the movement and a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami, politicians,
clerics and newspaper editors said the shooting represented the cost of
reforming the Islamic system >>>
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* MKO claims Tehran mortar attack
NICOSIA, March 13 (AFP) - The armed Iranian opposition Monday claimed
a Tehran mortar attack which they said targetted the command headquarters
of the commander in chief of the Revolutionary Guards, Major General Rahim
Safavi >>>
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* Clinton extends 1995 sanctions against Iran oil
WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - President Bill Clinton on Monday extended
an order banning oil development contracts with Iran, saying Iran continues
to support ``international terrorism'' and undermine Middle East peace
talks. Clinton said in a statement he was extending the ban he first signed
in March 1995 ``because the actions and policies of the government of Iran
continue to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy
of the United States'' >>>
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* Student tells police trial of "tunnel of terror"
TEHRAN, March 12 (AFP) - An Iranian student told a military court trying
20 policemen Sunday how police and vigilantes turned the corridor of his
dormitory into a "tunnel of terror" in a raid last July. Javad
Mir Sharafi described unprovoked assaults on students dragged out of bed
in the storming of the dorm which sparked the worst unrest in Iran since
the aftermath of the 1979 revolution >>>
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* Rafsanjani attacks Belgian probe as "counter-revolutionary"
plot
TEHRAN, March 13 (AFP) - Iran's former president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani
denounced a Belgian court probe into his alleged involvement in human rights
abuses as a counter-revolutionary conspiracy. Rafsanjani attributed the
investigation to "enemies of the Islamic revolution" in a statement
issue by the official news agency IRNA, his first response to the allegations
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Friday
March 10, 2000
* World Bank likely to OK Iran loans
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two loans to Iran, the first in seven years, are likely
to be approved soon by the World Bank over U.S. opposition, bank officials
and representatives of other countries say. Bank and Iranian officials
plan a final round of negotiations in Paris before the end of the month
on the $231 million package, bank officials said. If the talks succeed,
the two projects will go before the bank's 24 executive directors, including
Jan Piercy, the U.S. representative, probably next month >>>
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* Iranians indicted for spying
Great Falls, Mont. (AP) - Eight Iranian Defense Ministry officials are
under federal indictment here for trying to obtain military secrets and
smuggle them out of the country in 1996, the U.S. Customs Service said.
Special agent Brian Buschini said the indictments, handed up in November
1996 and January 1997, remain sealed >>>
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* Reformers start talks to build parliamentary bloc
TEHRAN, March 10 (AFP) - Iran's reformist politicians, fresh from February's
electoral victory, started work Friday to form a political bloc strong
enough to back President Mohammad Khatami in the new parliament. Even before
the wheeling and dealing began however, the reformists of the Islamic Iran
Participation Front knew the strength of their position >>>
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* Mesbah denounces reformist policies
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A hard-line cleric lashed out at Iran's reformists
today, warning that the government's liberal cultural policies were more
dangerous to the nation than a military coup. Ayatollah Mohammad Mesbah
Yazdi, whose comments last month prompted a strong media response, said
criticism of religious teachings and prominent people in the name of press
freedom threatened Iran's Islamic system. >>>
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