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* Rafsanjani blasts OPEC for "cave in" to US pressures
* Buchanan: Lift Iraq, Iran sanctions
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* Human rights reform in Iran an irreversible
trend: UN
* Khatami's brother summoned by press court
* Taliban ask Iran to deny sanctuary to escaped rival
leader
* Japan says arms issue won't affect Iran
relations
* Khatami calls on Revolutionary Guards to maintain
security
* Reformer summoned to court
* Clinton courting old foes
* Zangeneh: Iranwon't surrender oil market share
* Paper breaks taboo by printing picture of U.S. flag
* OPEC has pact for more oil, without Iran-delegate
* Hajjarian could be flown to Germany for treatment
* Relatives of missing Iranians seek Lebanon help
* Reformers stepping up "shadow government"
charges
* Reformers say conservatives blocking inquiry
* Suspects in Hajarian murder bid to face special court
* Iran lawmaker likes U.S. gesture
* Conservative paper calls for US to be sued
* Iraqi based MKO hits back at US allegations
* Briton jailed in US for shipping air parts to Iran
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Friday
March 31, 2000
* Rafsanjani says US must apologize before ties restored
TEHRAN, March 31 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani,
who still plays an influential role in the regime, said Friday the United
States must apologize to Iran before relations can be normalized. "They
absolutely must apologize to show their good will," Rafsanjani said
after US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's announcement last month
of the lifting of some US economic sanctions against Iran >>>
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* Rafsanjani blasts OPEC for "cave in" to US pressures
on production
TEHRAN, March 31 (AFP) - Influential former Iranian president Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday blasted Iran's OPEC colleagues for "caving
in" to US pressure after the cartel opted to boost output in a bid
to slash prices. "OPEC has unfortunately caved in to superpower pressures
and approved the pillaging of its members' resources," he said during
a sermon at weekly prayers at Tehran university >>>
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* Buchanan: Lift Iraq, Iran sanctions
WASHINGTON (AP) - Reform Party presidential hopeful Patrick Buchanan
says the United States should stabilize oil prices in part by lifting sanctions
on Iran and Iraq, selling them oil-drilling equipment and threatening to
withhold military help from Persian Gulf allies unless crude prices fall
to $20 a barrel. ``None of these Gulf regimes is worth another war,''
Buchanan says in prepared remarks for his speech today at Boston University.
``We should play hardball with those who play hardball with us.'' >>>
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Thursday
March 30, 2000
* Human rights reform in Iran an irreversible trend: UN
GENEVA, March 30 (AFP) - Reform of Iran's human rights situation is
an irreversible trend and is expected to pick up speed, while a sense of
accountability is also emerging, a UN rapporteur said Thursday. But resistance
to change in Iran still exists, a fact made clear by press reports, in
themselves a reflection of freedom of expression, special representative
Maurice Danby Copithorne told journalists >>>
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* Khatami's brother summoned by press court
TEHRAN, March 30 (AFP) - Mohammad-Reza Khatami, brother of the Iranian
president and publisher of the reformist daily Mosharekat (Participation),
was summoned Thursday to appear before the country's press court, IRNA
reported. Khatami has been named as a defendant in a "private defamation
and libel suit," and is to stand trial "next week, perhaps later
next month," the official news agency said without further comment
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* Taliban ask Iran to deny sanctuary to escaped rival leader
KABUL, March 30 (AFP) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia Thursday
asked neighbouring Iran not to give sanctuary to escaped anti-militia leader
Ismail Khan, saying this would damage improving bilateral ties. Taliban
Information Minister Mawlawi Qudratullah Jamal, however, said he believed
Khan was still hiding inside Afghanistan >>>
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* Japan says arms issue won't affect Iran relations
TOKYO, March 29 (Reuters) - Japan said on Wednesday it did not expect
any diplomatic fallout over the alleged involvement of a senior Iranian
diplomat and OPEC official in illegal military exports from Japan. ``We
are not linking this incident to our relations with Iran,'' said Ryu Yamazaki,
press secretary at Japan's Foreign Ministry. ``This incident is being left
up to the authorities who are investigating.'' >>>
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Wednesday
March 29, 2000
* Khatami calls on Revolutionary Guards to maintain security in Iran
TEHRAN, March 29 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday
called on Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, or Pasdaran, to fight against
threats to the country's security, the official IRNA agency reported. His
latest comments came just days after he made a similar appeal to the country's
intelligence ministry, and as other reformist leaders continued to allege
a conservative conspiracy against them >>>
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* Reformer summoned to court over "shadow government" charges
TEHRAN, March 29 (AFP) - A leading activist in the Iranian reform movements
has been summoned to appear before Tehran's revolutionary court over charges
that the nation is being run by a bloodthirsty "shadow government",
press reports said Wednesday. Journalist Emadeddin Baghi has alleged that
a murky network of secret agents is operating inside the police, intelligence
services, state media and the elite Revolutionary Guards, functioning as
a parallel power that controls the Islamic republic >>>
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* Clinton courting old foes
WASHINGTON (AP) - From North Korea to Iran to Libya, President Clinton
is courting former adversaries, some of them still on the State Department's
terrorism list, as he nears the end of his term and ponders his legacy.
He is attempting to rehabilitate ties with some of the same governments
and leaders long vilified by the United States. Some examples >>>
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* Zangeneh: Iranwon't surrender oil market share
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zangeneh, defending his
country's decision to opt out of an OPEC production pact, said on Wednesday
Iran would not surrender its share of OPEC's oil export market. ``We will
not give up our share under any circumstances,'' he said. ``We will soon
decide how much (extra) to produce. This will be seen in action,'' he told
Iranian state television from Vienna >>>
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Tuesday
March 28, 2000
* Paper breaks taboo by printing picture of U.S. flag
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian newspaper broke a taboo by printing
a color picture of the U.S. flag on its front page today, underscoring
growing calls within the country to end more than 20 years of estrangement
between the former allies. Related photo The daily Hammihan, which often
endeavors to project the viewpoints of both the hard-liners and reformers
inside the Islamic government, carried pictures of the U.S. and Iranian
flags above an editorial entitled, "Iran-U.S. ties: dark and bright
aspects." >>>
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* OPEC has pact for more oil, without Iran-delegate
VIENNA, Austria OPEC ignored objections of its second-biggest
member and agreed to increase oil production, but the amount of new oil
flowing into the market might not be enough to bring down gasoline prices
in the United States. Iran, the No. 2 OPEC oil producer, refused to endorse
the action, saying the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries should
not be a "rubber stamp." >>>
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* Hajjarian could be flown to Germany for treatment
TEHRAN, March 28 (AFP) - Doctors treating the shot reformist politician
Said Hajarian carried out a second successful operation, but their patient
may be flown to Germany for further treatment, the press reported Tuesday.
Hajarian, who was gunned down in a Tehran street earlier this month, underwent
a stomach operation, newspapers reported, citing a statement issued by
his doctors >>>
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* Relatives of missing Iranians seek Lebanon help
BEIRUT, March 28 (AFP) - Family members of four Iranians kidnapped in
Lebanon in 1982 Tuesday asked Prime Minister Salim Hoss to obtain information
on the fate of their lost relatives, a Lebanese official said. They met
Hoss at his private residence in the presence of the charge d'affaires
at the Iranian embassy in Beirut Mohammad Mohtadi >>>
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Monday
March 27, 2000
* Reformers stepping up charges that "shadow government"
in control
TEHRAN, March 27 (AFP) - Iranian reformers behind President Mohammad
Khatami are mounting charges that the nation is being run by a bloodthirsty
"shadow government" after an attempt on the life of a close Khatami
ally. They say a murky network of secret agents is operating inside the
police, intelligence services, state media and the elite Revolutionary
Guards, functioning as a parallel power that controls the Islamic republic
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* Reformers say conservatives blocking inquiry into shooting
TEHRAN, March 26 (AFP) - Iranian reformers on Sunday renewed accusations
that the regime's conservatives are trying to cover up the investigation
into the assassination attempt on a leading pro-reform activist. Mohammad-Reza
Khatami, head of the largest reform party and brother of President Mohammad
Khatami, also rejected charges that reformers were linked to the shooting
of Said Hajarian, still fighting for his life in a Tehran hospital >>> FULL
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* Suspects in Hajarian murder bid to face special Iranian court
TEHRAN, March 25 (AFP) - The alleged attacker of Iranian reformist Said
Hajarian and five people accused of helping him will be tried before a
special Islamic court, Iranian state radio reported Saturday. "It
is a special judge and a special court that have been appointed to judge
the authors of this attack," said the report, referring to an exchange
of letters on the matter between the senior court officials. The report
did not say when the trial would take place >>>
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* Iran lawmaker likes U.S. gesture
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran should have a ``positive and wise'' response
to American gestures for improving ties after more than two decades of
estrangement, an Iranian legislator said in remarks published today. Hussein
Ansari-Rad said Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's March 17 speech
was a ``wise and diplomatic show of respect'' that requires a positive
response from Iran, according to the daily Sobh-e-Emruz >>>
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* Conservative paper calls for US to be sued over past misdeeds
TEHRAN, March 27 (AFP) - The Iranian government should take the United
States before an international court on the basis of Washington's recent
admissions about its role in Iran, a conservative newspaper said here Monday.
"The government can and should bring a case against the United States,
using the explicit confessions of American officials," the evening
paper Kayhan said, referring to a speech by US Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright on March 17 >>>
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* Iraqi based MKO hits back at US allegations
NICOSIA, March 25 (AFP) - Iran's armed opposition, the People's Mujahedeen,
hit back Saturday at US State Department allegations that Iraq had use
tens of millions of dollars earned from smuggling oil to build a base for
the group. In a statement faxed to AFP in Nicosia, the Iraq-based Mujahedeen
said that its "bases and centres have all been built from their own
funds, raised from contributions by the people of Iran >>>
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* Briton jailed in US for shipping air parts to Iran
NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 27 (Reuters) - A British citizen was sentenced
on Monday to more than four years in prison for illegally shipping more
than $20 million worth of U.S. aircraft engine parts to Iran, a federal
prosecutor said. Pietro Rigolli, a British citizen living in Quebec, was
sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Hall in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
to 52 months in prison and was fined $100,000, U.S. Attorney Stephen Robinson
said >>>
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