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* Beirut hostage awarded millions
* U.S.: Iraq helps Iran opposition
* Saddam 'winning propaganda war'
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* Hajjarian improving
* Aziz slams Albright over Iran-Iraq war remarks
* Smuggled Iraqi gas oil said worth $500 mln-$1 bln
* News during Noruz
* Student gunman shot Hajjarian: IRNA
* Reformist press hits at news black-out on Hajjarian affair
* Iraq mourns victims of a mortar attack
* Iran says U.S. 'insincere' in dealing with Tehran
* US-Iran detente could help UAE
* Belgium & Ali Akbar Rafsanjani
* Large earthquake hits northwest
* Gunmen in Hajjarian shooting identified
* Hajjarian's paper blasts murderous "shadow government"
* Khatami to visit Germany
* Iran accuses US of "lack of honesty" in latest
overture
* Iran-U.S. ties unnerve Baghdad
* Six men arrested in Iran shooting
* Khatami orders speedier inquiry into shooting of Hajjarian
* Albright unfazed by tepid Iranian response
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Friday
March 24, 2000
* Beirut hostage awarded millions
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former hostage Terry Anderson was awarded $341 million
from Iran on Friday by a federal judge who said his treatment during his
nearly seven years of captivity in Beirut was ``savage and cruel by any
civilized standards.'' U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered
Iran to pay $24.5 million to Anderson, $10 million to his wife, Madeleine
Bassil, and $6.7 million to their daughter, Sulome. The judge also ordered
the Iranian Ministry of Information and Security to pay the three $300
million in punitive damages.>>>
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* U.S.: Iraq helps Iran opposition
WASHINGTON (AP) - Iraq has spent tens of millions of dollars building
a military base for an Iranian opposition group linked by U.S. officials
to terror activities around the world, the State Department said Friday.
Spokesman James P. Rubin said the Iraqi activity demonstrates that President
Saddam Hussein, whose country remains under international sanctions, is
choosing not to use scarce resources to benefit Iraqis but rather to sponsor
terrorism. >>>
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* Saddam 'winning propaganda war'
March 24, (BBC) -- The United Nations Secretary-General has warned that
the international community is in danger of losing the propaganda war with
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein over who is responsible for the suffering of
the Iraqi people. Kofi Annan told the Security Council that the UN oil-for-food
programme, which enables Baghdad to sell oil in return for food and medicine,
had brought Iraqi civilians some relief but their essential needs remained
unsatisfied. >>>
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Thursday
March 23, 2000
* Hajjarian improving
March 23, (AP) -- CAIRO, Egypt An Iranian reformist shot
at point-blank range in Tehran nearly two weeks ago is breathing on his
own, recognizes friends and relatives and communicates through nods and
eye movements, his doctors were reported as saying Thursday. Saeed Hajjarian,
a Tehran city councilor, publisher and confidant of President Mohammad
Khatami, was shot in the face March 12 by a gunman on a motorcycle. University
chemistry student Saeed Asgar has been arrested and accused of the shooting.
Further details about the suspect or motive have not been released.
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* Aziz slams Albright over Iran-Iraq war remarks
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz on Thursday
accused Secretary of State Madeleine Albright of lying when she said Washington
had supported Iraq in its 1980-88 war with Iran. ``This lady is accustomed
to telling lies ... She is specialized at distorting facts and telling
lies,'' Aziz told reporters after attending a rally held in Baghdad to
mark the first anniversary of NATO air war against Yugoslavia >>>
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* Smuggled Iraqi gas oil said worth $500 mln-$1 bln
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The value of gas oil smuggled by Iraq through
Iranian waters, in defiance of U.N. sanctions, could total between $500
million and $1 billion this year, or more than in all four previous years,
a U.N. committee was told on Thursday. Western diplomats said that was
stated in a briefing of the 15-nation U.N. Iraq Sanctions Committee by
U.S. Vice Adm. Charles Moore, coordinator of a Multinational Interception
Force (MIF) empowered to stop and search vessels in the Gulf suspected
of carrying contraband >>>
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* News during Noruz
Tehran (Iran daily) - Iranian newspapers traditionally close down for
the Noruz holidays. Not this year. Not the reformist papers at least >>>
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Wednesday
March 22, 2000
* Student gunman shot Hajjarian: IRNA
TEHRAN, March 21 (AFP) - The gunman who shot leading Iranian reformer
Said Hajarian is a student at a Tehran university led by a top conservative,
the official IRNA news agency said Tuesday. Citing the head of the investigation,
it named Said Asghar as the gunman responsible for the March 12 shooting
of Hajarian, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami and a leading force
behind Iran's pro-reform movement >>>
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* Reformist press hits at news black-out on Hajjarian affair
TEHRAN, March 22 (AFP) - The Iranian government has imposed a black-out
on news on the assassination attempt against reformist politician Said
Hajarian, two reformist dailies, including Hajarian's own, said Wednesday.
"Official sources have banned the national media from publishing unofficial
news. For this reason today newpapers were unable to publish solid, but
unofficial news," Sobh-e Emruz, Hajarian's paper, said >>> FULL TEXT
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* Iraq mourns victims of a mortar attack
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Hundreds of mourners called on Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein Wednesday to take revenge against Iran for the death of six people
in a mortar attack on a Palestinian district of Baghdad. Iraqi television
showed crowds following the coffins, waving Palestinian and Iraqi flags
and chanting: ``Revenge, Saddam -- Revenge for our Victims.'' >>>
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* Iran says U.S. 'insincere' in dealing with Tehran
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran has blasted what it called contradictory
remarks by U.S. officials and said the American government was insincere
in dealing with the Islamic republic. The comments were made by Foreign
Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza-Asefi, the official news agency IRNA said
Wednesday >>>
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* US-Iran detente could help UAE
ABU DHABI, March 22 (AFP) - US moves to improve ties with Tehran could
also help resolve the territorial dispute between Iran and the United Arab
Emirates (UAE), a US official said Wednesday. "The US efforts for
an overture toward Iran could serve ... to settle the problem of the three
Gulf islands," Assistant Secretary of State Edward Walker told the
Emirati newspaper Al-Ittihad >>>
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* Belgium & Ali Akbar Rafsanjani
Amnesty International new release: As proceedings before an investigating
judge in Belgium are not public, Amnesty International does not know the
details of the investigation opened against Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, former
Speaker of Parliament and President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and
therefore cannot comment on it >>>
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* Large earthquake hits northwest
TEHRAN, March 22 (AFP) - An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter
scale shook the northwestern Iranian province of Ardebil Tuesday, IRNA
reported. The quake occured at 6:38 p.m. (14:08 GMT) and was centered near
the city of Bilesawar Moghan, IRNA said, adding that it caused panic among
the residents of Moghan and its surrounding towns. No casualties or damage
have been reported >>>
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Tuesday
March 21, 2000
* Gunmen in Hajjarian shooting identified
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The Intelligence Ministry on Tuesday identified
a university student as the gunman in the attack on a leading Iranian reformist.
Iranian television quoted the official in charge of the investigation as
saying chemistry student Saeed Asgar shot Saeed Hajjarian, a city councilman
and confidant of President Mohammad Khatami, on March 12 >>>
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* Hajjarian's paper blasts murderous "shadow government"
TEHRAN, March 21 (AFP) - Most Iranians believe there is a murderous
"shadow government" that holds the true power in the nation,
said a pro-reform newspaper Tuesday whose chief is fighting for his life
after an assassination attempt. The claim in the Sobh-e-Emruz daily comes
as its director Said Hajarian, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami
and a leader in the reform movement, is still in hospital after being gunned
down in broad daylight last week >>>
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* Khatami to visit Germany
BERLIN, March 21 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammed Khatami is to pay
an official visit to Germany by July at the latest, a senior German foreign
ministry official who requested anonymity said Tuesday. Khatami is expected
"in July, perhaps before," the official said >>>
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* Iran accuses US of "lack of honesty" in latest overture
TEHRAN, March 21 (AFP) - Iran accused the United States of a "lack
of honesty" Tuesday after Secretary of State Madeleine Albright dismissed
a lukewarm reaction from Tehran to the latest overture from Washington.
"The contradictory comments from US officials, spoken in an inappropriate
tone, show not only their ignorance of the geography of the region, but
also their lack of honesty in their relations with the Islamic Republic,"
said a statement from foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi carried
by state radio >>>
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* Iran-U.S. ties unnerve Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq views warming ties between Iran and the
United States with fear and suspicion perhaps enough of both to make
it consider improving its own relations with its regional rival and with
the world's remaining superpower >>>
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Monday
March 20, 2000
* Six men arrested in Iran shooting
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Six men have been arrested in the shooting of reformist
Saeed Hajjarian, Iran's security agency announced Monday. The agency offered
no information on the suspects' motives. One of the suspects has confessed
to shooting Hajjarian in the face on March 12, according to the Supreme
National Security Council, the nation's top security body >>>
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* Khatami orders speedier inquiry into shooting of Hajjarian
TEHRAN, March 20 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has ordered
police to speed up their investigation into the near-fatal shooting of
a close ally and leading reformist, the official IRNA news agency reported
Monday. It said Khatami issued a directive for a faster inquiry into the
March 12 shooting of Said Hajarian by two gunmen who sped off on a high-powered
motorbike of a type restricted here to government agencies >>> FULL TEXT
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* Albright unfazed by tepid Iranian response to easing of US sanctions
NEW DELHI, March 19 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
said Sunday she was not surprised by Iran's tepid response thus far to
Washington's overtures to Tehran. Albright, who on Friday announced an
easing of sanctions against Iran and acknowleged past US interference in
the country's internal affairs in a renewed bid for a dialogue, said Tehran's
reaction was to be expected >>>
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