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December 1, 2000
No comment from Moscow on report that it will supply arms to Iran
MOSCOW, Dec 1 (AFP) - Russia's foreign ministry will not comment on
Western media reports alleging that Moscow plans to tear up a secret accord
banning arms sales to Iran, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday.
The ministry will not comment confidential documents, the ministry's press
service said in reference to a letter that Russia's Foreign Minister Igor
Ivanov allegedly sent US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright >>> FULL TEXT
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Police kill three Afghan drug traffickers, arrested 25
TEHRAN, Dec 1 (AFP) - Iranian police killed three Afghan drug traffickers
Wednesday, arrested 25 more and seized a tonne of various drugs in the
eastern province of Kerman, local radio reported Thursday. Quoting a provincial
police commander, the radio said one of the dead traffickers was a gang
leader called Mirgol Ghanbarzehi who had been behind several hostage-takings
in the area >>>
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* No comment from Moscow on report that
it will supply arms to Iran
* Police kill three Afghan drug traffickers, arrested 25
* Iran not yet delivered from dictatorship: Khatami
* Russian military offers arms for Iran's border forces
* Several years needed before cases of Iran-Iraq POWs settled:
Red Cross
* Khatami speaks out vs. hard-liners
* Khatami presents last budget, vows economy is "running
well"
* UNHCR says more than 165,000 Afghans returned from Iran
since April
* Hard-liners criticize Khatami
* US, Russia discuss Iran arms sales
* Sergeyev to visit Iran: official
* Belgian in Iran spy case "also holds Ivorian nationality"
* 13 killed after security forces launch "clean-up"
operation
* Khatami complains powers are too limited
* Khatami meets with reformist MPs
* 10,000 Iranians believed to be infected with HIV: official
* Popular reformist MP first in balloting for Iran doctors'
group
* Russia ready to provide Iran with conventional weapons:
Russian minister
* Iran says it is close to self-sufficient in anti-ship
missiles
* Experts still awaiting Pakistan's OK to examine mummy
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Thursday
November 30, 2000
Iran not yet delivered from dictatorship: Khatami
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Wednesday
that Iran was still not delivered from dictatorship, more than 20 years
after the fall of the Shah and his replacement by an Islamic regime. "Our
country emerged 20 years ago from the heavy weight of dictatorship, but
unfortunately we are not yet completely delivered from it, and dictatorship
continues to haunt us all," he told reporters >>>
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Russian military offers arms for Iran's border forces
MOSCOW, Nov 30 (AFP) - Russia is ready to send arms to Iran to help
reinforce its borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, the military news
agency AVN quoted a top Russian general as saying Thursday. The statement
came only days after Russia announced its intention to renew arms negotiations
with Tehran, effectively scrapping a five-year-old accord with Washington
that banned conventional arms sales to Iran >>>
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Several years needed before cases of Iran-Iraq POWs settled: Red
Cross
BAGHDAD, Nov 30 (AFP) - The Iran-Iraq war may have ended 12 years ago
but it will take several more years to resolve the cases of prisoners of
war, a Red Cross delegate said here Wednesday. "Some questions will
remain in suspense for several more years," the official with the
International Committee of the Red Cross told AFP on condition he not be
identified >>>
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Wednesday
November 29, 2000
Khatami speaks out vs. hard-liners
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - With barely six months to go before
a showdown at the polls, Iran's reformist and immensely popular President
Mohammad Khatami has threatened to expose the illegal deeds of hard-liners
trying to derail him. Three days after he issued the challenge, Khatami's
supporters say his reform movement has become even more unstoppable. But
hard-liners are digging in for the vote, employing increasingly desperate
measures in their battle for survival >>>
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Khatami presents last budget, vows economy is "running well"
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday
presented the final budget of his four-year term amid strong conservative
criticism over his handling of the economy as he readies for a possible
re-election run next year. Khatami told parliament the record 135 trillion
rial budget, worth 45 billion dollars at the official exchange rate, would
pave the way to making the Iranian currency fully convertible on the international
market >>>
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UNHCR says more than 165,000 Afghans returned from Iran since April
TEHRAN, Nov 29 (AFP) - More than 165,000 Afghan refugees in Iran have
returned home since the April launch of a joint repatriation programme
with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), officials said Wednesday.
UNHCR's deputy director in Iran, Nabil Makki, said 165,180 Afghans have
been repatriated to their war-torn homeland, 90 percent of them under the
programme and the remainder by their own means >>>
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Tuesday
November 28, 2000
Hard-liners criticize Khatami
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian hard-liners harshly criticized moderate
President Mohammad Khatami for accusing them of constitutional violations,
saying it was part of a ploy to win re-election next year, newspapers reported
Tuesday. On Sunday, Khatami said hard-line opponents of his pro-democracy
reforms, including the judiciary, were violating the constitution and he
was powerless to stop them. He said the closed-door, no-jury courts that
are used to try journalists and political activists were an example of
how the constitution was being trampled >>>
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US, Russia discuss Iran arms sales
WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. delegation will travel to Russia next week
to discuss Moscow's decision to no longer observe a 1995 pledge not to
sell tanks and battlefield weapons to Iran, the State Department said Tuesday.
Moscow has said it will withdraw from the agreement, effective Dec. 1,
contending that recent publicity about the accord in the American press
violated a secrecy pledge agreed to by the U.S. side >>>
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Sergeyev to visit Iran: official
MOSCOW, Nov 28 (AFP) - Russian Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev is planning
to visit Iran, a senior Russian general accompanying Sergeyev on his current
trip to Japan was quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency as saying Tuesday.
The defence ministry's head of international cooperation, General Leonid
Ivashov, did not say when the visit would take place but the news agency
quoted its sources as saying the trip could take place as early as January
2001 >>>
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Belgian in Iran spy case "also holds Ivorian nationality"
A Belgian national arrested by Iran earlier this month on espionage
charges holds a second passport from the Ivory Coast, a European source
told AFP on Tuesday. "He is apparently a European businessman who
also has Ivorian nationality," said the source, who added that the
man detained was not resident in Iran but only passing through >>> FULL TEXT
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13 killed after security forces launch "clean-up" operation
Thirteen people were killed, including three policemen, after Iran launched
a week-long "clean-up" operation in the drug-troubled eastern
province of Khorassan, state radio said Tuesday. Six hostages who had been
taken by bandits and drug smugglers in the area were freed in the operation,
which left several other people wounded and led to 11 arrests, it said
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Monday
November 27, 2000
Khatami complains powers are too limited
TEHRAN, Nov 26 (AFP) - Iran's beleaguered President Mohammad Khatami
complained Sunday that his powers were too limited, and called for them
to be strengthened by changing the constitution. "I must admit that
after three years and a half in the president I am aware that the head
of state does not have adequate prerogatives to do his job," Khatami
said in a speech in Tehran >>>
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Khatami meets with reformist MPs
TEHRAN, Nov 25 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami, expected to make
a re-election bid next year, met Saturday with leading MPs from his pro-reform
coalition, state radio reported. Khatami had words of praise for the nation's
"political currents and forces which are faithful to the regime ...
and are on the way to independence and the progress of the country,"
the report said >>>
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10,000 Iranians believed to be infected with HIV: official
TEHRAN, Nov 27 (AFP) - Some 10,000 Iranians are believed to be infected
with the deadly HIV virus which causes AIDS, an official from the health
ministry said Monday, cited by the official IRNA news agency. Abbas-Ali
Javadi, from the ministry office in the central city of Isfahan, said that
according to official statistics, however, there are just 2,207 registered
cases of HIV-positive people >>>
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Popular reformist MP first in balloting for Iran doctors' group
TEHRAN, Nov 25 (AFP) - Popular Iranian pro-reform MP Ali-Reza Nuri has
been elected to the administrative board of Iran's politically influential
College of Physicians, the Kayhan newspaper reported Saturday. Nuri, whose
brother Abdollah is a journalist and former interior minister serving a
five-year prison sentence for spreading anti-Islamic propaganda, came in
first in Friday's balloting, the paper said >>>
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Russia ready to provide Iran with conventional weapons: Russian minister
MOSCOW, Nov 27 (AFP) - A top Russian minister announced Monday that
Moscow was ready to hold talks with Iran on the sale of conventional weapons,
Interfax reported. "We are ready to provide Iran with everything that
is not prohibited by international accords that we have signed," the
deputy prime minister in charge of arms sales, Ilya Klebanov, told the
news agency >>>
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Iran says it is close to self-sufficient in anti-ship missiles
TEHRAN, Nov 27 (AFP) - Defence Minister Ali Shamkhani said Iran is close
to being capable of independently manufacturing anti-ship cruise-type missiles,
the official IRNA news agency reported. "Despite the allegations of
American military officials, we have arrived on the verge of being self-sufficient
in producing shore-to-sea cruise missiles," IRNA quoted Shamkhani
as saying Sunday >>>
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Iran experts still awaiting Pakistan's OK to examine mummy: official
TEHRAN, Nov 27 (AFP) - Iran is waiting for Pakistan to allow a visit
by team of experts to identify an ancient mummy recently discovered in
the Pakistani border province of Baluchistan, officials said Monday. The
state IRNA news agency, citing an unnamed official with Iran's state national
heritage organisation, said moves were still underway to allow the trip
to examine the disputed mummy >>>
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