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November 3, 2000
Iranian site hacked
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Embattled Culture minister to explain resignation before parliament:
MP
TEHRAN, Nov 3 (AFP) - Embattled Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani
will appear before the Iranian parliament on Tuesday to explain his decision
to resign from the government, the state IRNA news agency said. Mohajerani,
a close ally of reformist President Mohammad Khatami who has been under
heavy pressure from conservatives, has already handed in his resignation
letter to the president, it said Friday >>>
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President Khatami winds up Japan visit
TOKYO, Nov 3 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami left here for
home by special plane Friday after a four-day official visit to Japan,
the first by a top Iranian leader in 42 years. During his stay, Japan clinched
exclusive negotiating rights to develop the Azadegan oil field in southwest
Iran, one of the biggest oil fields in the Middle East >>>
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Iranians march against U.S., Israel
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians marched from the former U.S.
embassy to Friday prayers to mark the 21st anniversary of the hostage crisis
that followed Iran's Islamic revolution. The demonstrators, led by busloads
of schoolchildren, carried banners denouncing the United States and Israel
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* Iranian site hacked
* Embattled Culture minister to explain resignation
* President Khatami winds up Japan visit
* Iranians march against U.S., Israel
* Khatami meets Japanese emperor
* Turkey Keeps Eye on Iran Flights to Syria -Source
* Kermanshah hit by mortar attack
* Iran marks hostage anniversary
* Six killed, 25 wounded in prison breakout attempt
* Khatami speaks out against US
* Turkey confirms it stopped Iranian plane for inspection
* Republicans fail in bid for state dept subpoena
* Khatami arrives in Japan
* Iranian ballistic missile test fails, says Jane's
* Iran says its missile programme is independent
* Fars provincial police chief, bodyguard shot
* Iran wants mysterious mummy from Pakistan
* Parliament mulls payouts to victims of US "terrorism"
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Thursday
November 2, 2000
Khatami meets Japanese emperor
TOKYO, Nov 2 (AFP) - Visiting Iranian President Mohammad Khatami met
Japanese Emperor Akihito Thursday, thanking Tokyo for its hospitality and
vowing to expand ties between the two countries. The emperor greeted Khatami
at the entrance to the Imperial Palace building and the two talked for
25 minutes, said a spokesman for the Imperial Household Agency >>> FULL TEXT
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Turkey Keeps Eye on Iran Flights to Syria -Source
ANKARA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Turkey has told Iran it could ask Iranian
aircraft crossing its airspace to Syria to land at a Turkish airport for
a search of its cargo, official sources said on Wednesday. "We don't
want to entertain any doubts...about support for any terrorist elements
in the Middle East," one source said. "We're not imputing any
responsibility (on Iran's part), but we simply don't want to have doubts...at
a time of tension." >>>
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Kermanshah hit by mortar attack, no injuries or damage: radio
TEHRAN, Nov 2 (AFP) - The western Iranian city of Kermanshah, close
to the border with Iraq, was hit by five mortar shells overnight, state
radio reported Thursday. It said the shells hit a "vacant plot"
in the city and that there had been neither casualties nor damage. Two
people were arrested in connection with the attack, the radio said without
gving further details >>>
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Iran marks hostage anniversary amid mounting anti-US anger over Israel
TEHRAN, Nov 2 (AFP) - Iran will mark the 21st anniversary of the hostage
taking at the American embassy in Tehran on Friday amid a resurgence in
anger over US support for Israel in the latest Middle East crisis. The
anniversary is an annual national holiday but this year it comes on the
heels of the worst Middle East violence in a decade, which has left some
170 dead and 5,000 wounded, almost all of them Palestinians >>>
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Six killed, 25 wounded in Iran prison breakout attempt: IRNA
TEHRAN, Nov 2 (AFP) - Six prisoners were killed and 25 wounded in an
attempted prison breakout in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, the official
IRNA news agency reported on Thursday >>>
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Wednesday
November 1, 2000
Khatami speaks out against US-dominated global economy
TOKYO, Nov 1 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday
took a swipe at a US-oriented global economy, while promising to take legislative
measures to boost foreign investment in his country. "Economic globalisation
cannot and must not be wielded as a weapon by those who fantasise about
the establishment of a unipolar world system," Khatami said in a speech
at a luncheon with Japanese business leaders >>>
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Turkey confirms it stopped Iranian plane for inspection
ANKARA, Nov 1 (AFP) - Turkey confirmed Wednesday it had forced a Syrian-bound
Iranian plane to land for a cargo inspection at Diyarbakir airport in the
southeast of the country. The foreign ministry said the Damascus-bound
charter flight was stopped on Tuesday and inspected under international
civil aviation rules >>>
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Republicans fail in bid for state dept subpoena
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans Wednesday failed to muster
enough support to issue a subpoena aimed at forcing the State Department
to hand over key documents relating to Vice President Al Gore (news - web
sites)'s 1995 pact with Moscow on Russian conventional arms sales to Iran.
``The subpoena will not be served. They couldn't get 10 signatures,'' a
Senate source told Reuters >>>
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Tuesday
October 31, 2000
Khatami arrives in Japan
TOKYO (AP) - Iran on Tuesday dismissed concerns by Japan that it is
developing missiles with technology provided by North Korea (news - web
sites), a Japanese official said. Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono
told his Iranian counterpart, Kamal Kharrazi, that Tokyo was worried about
the similarity between Iran's ballistic missiles and those of North Korea,
according to the Japanese Foreign Ministry >>>
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IIran says its missile programme is independent
TOKYO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Iran's missile programme is purely defensive
and was developed independent of foreign powers, including North Korea,
Iranian Foreign Affairs minister Kamal Kharrazi told his Japanese counterpart,
Yohei Kono, on Tuesday. U.S. intelligence officials have repeatedly said
they believe that Iran, which in September conducted its second test-firing
of a medium range Shahab-3 missile in two months, poses a security threat
to the United States >>>
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Iranian ballistic missile test fails, says Jane's
LONDON, Oct 31 (AFP) - Iran's third flight test of its Shahab-3 medium-range
ballistic missile was a failure, according to the specialised British monthly
Jane's Intelligence Review (JIR). In its November issue, the magazine cites
a US defence official as saying the United States was not yet sure what
caused the problem, but suspected possible engine problems or difficulties
with the missile's guidance system >>>
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Monday
October 30, 2000
Fars provincial police chief, bodyguard shot
TEHRAN, Oct 30 (AFP) - The police commander of Iran's Fars province
and his bodyguard were seriously wounded in an attack, a newspaper reported
Sunday. The Kayhan paper said General Hossein Zolfaghari and his bodyguard
were shot several times with an automatic weapon while trying to arrest
several youths who were stealing a car in the southern city of Shiraz >>> FULL
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Iran wants mysterious mummy from Pakistan
TEHRAN, Oct 29 (AFP) - Iran wants Pakistan to hand over an ancient mummy
recently discovered in the Pakistani border province of Baluchistan, press
reports said here Sunday. Iranian media identified the 2,600-year-old mummy
as the remains of an Achaemenian prince although reports from Pakistan
said it was a princess who could have originated in Egypt or Iran >>> FULL TEXT
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Parliament mulls payouts to victims of US "terrorism"
TEHRAN, Oct 30 (AFP) - The foreign policy committee of Iran's parliament
is mulling tit-for-tat legislation that would allow victims of US "terrorism"
to sue for compensation, an MP said in Monday's press. "This is a
counter-measure against the recent decision by the US Congress to pay US
families who claim to be victims of terrorism supported by Iran,"
the Entekhab paper cited the unnamed deputy as saying >>>
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