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* Iran minister waiting Khatami reply
to resignatio
* U.S. senators to probe Gore arms pact with Russia
* Iran says no tangible result from Sharm el-Sheikh
* Spain's Aznar due in Tehran Saturday on official visit
* Khatami has little taste for second term, ally says
* Under-fire culture minister withdraws his resignation:
MP
* Cleric releases religious monies for Palestinians
* Russian security chief hails growing ties with Iran
* Iranian relief convoy arrives in drought-hit Afghanistan
* Iran should review Islamabad ties: paper
* Car bomb blasts Iran mosque, injures several: TV
* Mideast summit deal greeted with relief and scorn
* Defence minister proposes oil pressure to back Palestinians
* Thousand new schools to be named after Palestinian "martyrs"
* Khatami invited to Russia
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Thursday
October 19, 2000
Iran minister waiting Khatami reply to resignation
TEHRAN, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Iran's embattled minister of culture, accused
by the conservative establishment of being too liberal, is still waiting
for the president to accept his resignation, newspapers said on Thursday.
Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ataollah Mohajerani is a close
ally of President Mohammad Khatami and his resignation would be a blow
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U.S. senators to probe Gore arms pact with Russia
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Republicans said on Thursday they will
hold hearings next week to probe the legality of a recently disclosed deal
struck by Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) with Moscow that Russia
would not face U.S. sanctions if it completed delivery of certain arms
shipments to Iran. News reports of the 1995 pact between Gore and former
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin have prompted charges that the
Clinton administration failed to seek penalties against Russia under a
1992 U.S. law barring such sales to Iran and other states seen as sponsors
of terrorism >>>
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Iran says no tangible result from Sharm el-Sheikh
TEHRAN, Oct 19 (AFP) - Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said Wednesday
the Sharm el-Sheikh summit on Middle East peace had had "no tangible
result" and had raised "an enormous doubt" over the region's
future. The meeting Monday and Tuesday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort "wound
up with no tangible result. If the Israeli soldiers withdrew, it was to
try and calm the Palestinian anger," the official news agency IRNA
reported Kharazi as telling ambassadors from non-Muslim countries >>> FULL TEXT
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Spain's Aznar due in Tehran Saturday on official visit
TEHRAN, Oct 19 (AFP) - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar is to
arrive in Tehran this weekend on a two-day official visit, the first by
a Spanish government leader since the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran,
a Spanish diplomat said Thursday. Aznar, who will be accompanied a delegation
that includes 80 businessmen, will be traveling from Seoul, where he is
to attend the Asia-Europe Meeting of heads of state >>>
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Wednesday
October 18, 2000
Khatami has little taste for second term, ally says
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - Iran's deputy speaker of parliament Behzad Nabavi
said reformist President Mohammad Khatami may reconsider his decision to
run for a second term, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday.
"We are hopeful, but the president has not shown much enthusiasm"
for a second term, Nabavi said, adding that he thought Khatami felt "further
obstacles" would again be placed in the path of his reform programme >>> FULL
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Under-fire culture minister withdraws his resignation: MP
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - An Iranian MP said under-fire Culture Minister
Ataollah Mohajerani has withdrawn his resignation, press reports said Wednesday,
adding to the swirl of speculation around one of President Mohammad Khatami's
closest allies. Mohammad Dadfar said Mohajerani, a hero to the reform movement
and a regular target of conservative anger, had taken back a letter to
Khatami stepping down from office, newspapers said >>>
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Cleric releases religious monies for Palestinians
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - A top-ranking Iranian cleric has authorised theallocation
of monies from religious funds to support the Palestinians, theofficial
IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani said the
decision had been made because "theusurper Israel, backed by the Great
Satan (the United States), is sowickedly massacring Muslims." >>> FULL
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Russian security chief hails growing ties with Iran
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - The head of Russia's powerful advisory Security
Council said here Wednesday that Moscow is determined to expand its relations
with Iran, the official IRNA news agency reported. "There is a determination
among Russian leaders to have strong relations with Iran on many fronts
and we are serious about pursuing them," Sergei Ivanov said in a meeting
with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi >>>
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Landmark Iranian relief convoy arrives in drought-hit Afghanistan
KABUL, Oct 18 (AFP) - The first aid convoy sent by Iran to the drought-stricken
people of northwestern Afghanistan has arrived in the Afghan city of Herat,
official sources said Wednesday. The 37-truck convoy was bearing food supplies
including wheat flour and edible oil, as well as 500 blankets and 50 tents,
the ruling Taliban militia's official daily Anis reported >>>
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Iran should review Islamabad ties after death sentences reversed:
paper
TEHRAN, Oct 18 (AFP) - Iran should review its relations with Pakistan,after
that country's supreme court overturned a guilty verdict against eightSunni
Muslims for the murder of an Iranian diplomat, a newspaperdemanded Wednesday.
"The fact that the accused were found innocent after having earlier
beensentenced to death is unacceptable to public opinion," the centrist
dailyKhorassan said >>>
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Tuesday
October 17, 2000
Car bomb blasts Iran mosque, injures several: TV
TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - A car bomb exploded overnight in a city of southeastern
Iran, injuring several people and badly damaging a mosque, state television
reported Tuesday. The provincial security council of Sistan-Baluchistan
blamed US and Israeli agents trying to cause dissension between Muslims
for the explosion in the provincial capital of Zahedan, where Sunnis are
a majority unlike Iran as a whole >>>
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Mideast summit deal greeted with relief and scorn
LONDON (Reuters) - Europe gave a guarded welcome to news of a summit
deal Tuesday to end Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed that has jeopardized
years of peacemaking, but Iran and most Arabs dismissed it as a travesty.
Iran called the pact as ``an imposed peace that has given the Palestinians
nothing,'' and its defense minister urged Islamic countries to use oil
as a weapon -- that is, curb supplies -- to bolster the Palestinian struggle
for a viable state >>>
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Defence minister proposes oil pressure to back Palestinians
TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - Iran's defence minister said Tuesday that oil
could be used to bring international pressure to help support the Palestinians,
the official IRNA news agency reported >>>
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Thousand new schools in Iran to be named after Palestinian "martyrs"
TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - A powerful Iranian charity association announced
plans Monday to build 1,000 schools and name them after Palestinian "martyrs"
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip >>>
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Report: Gore kept Russian deal secret
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) kept Congress
in the dark about details of Russian nuclear cooperation with Iran after
receiving a letter from then-Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin urging
him to keep the deal secret, The Washington Times reported >>>
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Khatami invited to Russia
TEHRAN, Oct 17 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has been invited
to make a state visit to Russia by President Vladimir Putin, state radio
announced here Tuesday. The head of Russia's powerful advisory Security
Council, Sergei Ivanov, who began a three-day visit to Tehran on Monday,
delivered the invitation to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani >>> FULL
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Monday
October 16, 2000
Kharrazi ends rare visit to Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi Sunday ended
a rare visit to Iraq aimed at patching up differences remaining from the
1980-88 war, the Iraqi News Agency INA reported. Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein met Kharrazi Saturday and Iran said the two neighbors had reached
agreement on several issues >>>
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New anti-Israeli group calls for no-fly zones over Israel
TEHRAN, Oct 15 (AFP) - An anti-Israeli group whose creation was announced
in Tehran last week by a top Iranian official called Saturday for no-fly
zones like those in Iraq to be imposed over Israel. The International Anti-Zionist
Movement, announced last week by Mohsen Rezaie, secretary general of Iran's
powerful Expediency Council, said the goal was to keep Israeli warplanes
out of the skies >>>
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Russian security chief visits Iran
MOSCOW, Oct 16 (AFP) - The head of Russia's powerful advisory Security
Council, Sergei Ivanov, began a three-day visit to Iran on Monday, Russian
news agencies reported. His talks with senior Iranian officials will focus
on the perceived threat to stability in Central Asia from the Taliban regime
in Afghanistan and cooperation in security matters, reports said >>> FULL TEXT
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Militants cleared of murder charges
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Eight Sunni Muslim militants were acquitted
Monday of murdering an Iranian diplomat and six Pakistanis. An anti-terrorist
court had sentenced the men to death for the fatal shooting of Mohammed
Ali Rahimi, director of an Iranian cultural center, in February 1997 >>>
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