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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.>>> FULL TEXT

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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. >>> FULL TEXT

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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. >>> FULL TEXT

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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. >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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.'' >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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