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Friday
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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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