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November 6-10, 2000 / Aban 16-20, 1379

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Thursday
November 9, 2000

Khatami to attend Doha summit: official

TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will take part in the upcoming Islamic summit in Doha following Qatar's decision to break ties with Israel, his office said Thursday. "Qatar has announced that it is severing its relations with Israel and closing the Zionist regime's office in Doha. Iran is pleased that Qatar has taken into account the wish of Muslim countries and Muslims all over the world, and therefore President Khatami, chairman of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, will go to the summit," an official statement said >>> FULL TEXT

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Police in Persian Gulf island to set up coastal unit against refugees

TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Police in Iran's free-trade zone Persian Gulf island of Kish are planning to deploy coastal forces to stop Afghan refugees landing on the island, the official IRIB broadcasting agency said in a web-report Thursday. According to an official from Kish island's police, cited by the agency, some 2,470 Afghan refugees had already been expelled from the island, and the fate of another 300 is expected to be decided on within the next month >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khatami to attend Doha summit: official
* Police in Persian Gulf island to set up coastal unit against refugees
* Iran wants "radical change" in US policies
* Parliament to debate fingerprints, searches for US nationals
* Police make major booze haul
* Mohajerani cancels resignation
* Parliament speaker blasts conservatives
* Reformist decries hard-liners
* Khatami to take part in Islamic conference as planned, says Iranian envoy
* MPs mull over bill regarding the fingerprinting of US nationals
* Iran scraps short-term visas for Persian Gulf state nationals
* Iranian site hacked
* Embattled Culture minister to explain resignation
* President Khatami winds up Japan visit
* Iranians march against U.S., Israel

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Wednesday
November 8, 2000

Britain's Hoon Says Iran Not a Threat to Persian Gulf

MUSCAT (Reuters) - British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon has said that Iran is no longer a threat to its Gulf Arab neighbors, but that Iraq could attack Kuwait again but for the no-fly zones enforced by the United States and Britain. ``We have seen a significant and positive development in Iran and its keenness to improve relations with the international community (so) that we don't view them now as a threat to the Gulf countries,'' Hoon told reporters at the end of a visit to Oman on Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran wants "radical change" in US policies

TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Iran is hoping for a "radical change" in US policies towards its Islamic republic, newspapers reported Wednesday morning, just hours before Republican George W. Bush won the US presidency. "US behaviour towards our country must undergo a radical change and there must be serious political will to modify their policies under the new presidency," Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said, quoted by the government-run Iran newspaper >>> FULL TEXT

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Parliament to debate fingerprints, searches for US nationals

TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Iranian MPs on Wednesday presented the reform-majority parliament with a tit-for-tat bill that would require US nationals to be fingerprinted and body-searched upon arrival in Iran. The move follows complaints in recent years from a number of Iranians, including athletes who had been invited by the United States, about being fingerprinted and searched after arriving on American soil >>> FULL TEXT

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Police make major booze haul

TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Iranian police seized more than 6,000 bottles of alcohol that had been marked as vegetable oil, press reports said Wednesday. The haul was made from a truck outside Tehran that was en route cross-country from the western Kermanshah province to the eastern province of Khorassan, the Kayhan paper said >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
November 7, 2000

Mohajerani cancels resignation

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's most popular female legislator went on trial Tuesday and her husband announced he was withdrawing his resignation as culture minister to defend himself in a separate court case. Both the prosecution of lawmaker Jamileh Kadivar and the pressure on her husband, Ataollah Mohajerani, to resign are seen as attempts by hard-liners to thwart reformists in Iran >>> FULL TEXT

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Parliament speaker blasts conservatives, showdown looming on press

TEHRAN, Nov 7 (AFP) - The speaker of Iran's reform-majority parliament blasted a conservative-led oversight body Tuesday as the two sides appeared set for a showdown over easing curbs on the press >>> FULL TEXT

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Reformist decries hard-liners

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A leading Iranian lawmaker on Tuesday urged President Mohammad Khatami to condemn the tactics of his hard-line opponents in closing liberal newspapers and trying to roll back democratic reforms. ``I call on the president not to remain silent,'' Behzad Nabavi, a reformist who is deputy speaker of parliament, or Majlis, told lawmakers >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
November 6, 2000

Khatami to take part in Islamic conference

DOHA, Nov 6 (AFP) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami is to take part in the Islamic summit in Doha, despite Qatar's resistance to calls for the closure of an Israeli trade office in its capital, an Iranian envoy said here Monday. "As planned, President Khatami will head Iran's delegation to the summit," running from November 12 to 14, said Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif, quoted by Qatar's news agency QNA >>> FULL TEXT

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MPs mull over bill regarding the fingerprinting of US nationals

TEHRAN, Nov 5 (AFP) - More than 50 Iranian MPs are backing a bill that would require US nationals to be fingerprinted and body-searched upon arrival in Iran, a newspaper reported Sunday. The deputies are supporting the legislation "to treat Americans travelling to this country just like the US government has been treating Iranians there," said Iran Daily, published by the state news agency IRNA >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran scraps short-term visas for Persian Gulf state nationals

TEHRAN, Nov 6 (AFP) - The Iranian government has decided not to impose visas on nationals of Persian Gulf Arab states for visits of less than three months, Tehran radio said Monday. The move, the first of its kind taken by Tehran towards its neighbours, was decided during a cabinet meeting chaired by President Mohammad Khatami late Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Friday
November 3, 2000

Iranian site hacked

Hyundai Iran's web site altered by pro-Isreali hacker. Is this the first time an Iranian site has been hacked? >>> GO HERE

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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