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Friday
Ocotber 27, 2000

Reformists set up political strategy committee ahead of elections

TEHRAN, Oct 27 (AFP) - Iran's embattled reformists have created a political strategy committee to defend their movement after repeated setbacks at the hands of conservative rivals, press reports said Thursday. The 2nd of Khordad reform coalition, named for the date of President Mohammad Khatami's 1997 election, picked top reformists to push for reforms in the run-up to next year's presidential polls, the Kayhan paper said >>> FULL TEXT

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USS Cole probe seeks Bin Laden link

WASHINGTON (AP) - Osama bin Laden, the elusive Islamic militant who has publicly pledged to drive the U.S. military out of the Middle East, is a focus of the USS Cole bombing investigation, but investigators have no hard evidence he was behind it, several American officials said Friday. Meantime, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and FBI (news - web sites) Director Louis Freeh appealed in a joint statement for greater cooperation from the Yemeni government. FBI agents have encountered the same problem they had in an earlier terrorism investigation in Saudi Arabia - no direct access to suspects >>> FULL TEXT

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Republican senators order documents on Gore-Chernomyrdin deal

WASHINGTON, Oct 27 (AFP) - A group of 10 senior US Republican senators ordered the US State Department Thursday to produce all documents related to a secret US-Russian agreement on arms sales to Iran by next Monday or face a formal subpoena. The senators, who include the chairmen of several influential senate committees, told US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright the papers had to be on their desks by noon, October 30 >>> FULL TEXT

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Tehran city hall burns the midnight oil

TEHRAN, Oct 26 (AFP) - Tehran's district mayors are burning the midnight oil after the municipality ordered city hall to remain open overnight to better serve residents, press reports said Thursday. Following an order from mayor Morteza Alviri, mayors of the capital's 20 districts are taking turns on the overnight shift from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, reported the Hamshahri daily, which is owned by the municipality >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reformists set up political strategy committee
* USS Cole probe seeks Bin Laden link
* Republican senators order documents
* Tehran city hall burns the midnight oil
* Saudi calls on Iran to sign a security accord
* Congressmen want Russia-Iran papers
* Hamilton defends Gore over arms
* Iran says Iraq lets more pilgrims visit shrines
* U.S. State Dept. denies Gore-Russia deal
* Khatami criticises Arab states
* OIC meeting of foreign ministers in doubt: diplomats
* Revolutionary guards say Israel should be "wiped off"
* MKO says mortar attack carried out by women
* Ex-Republican officials accuse Gore
* Iran MPs blast "illegal" US move
* Seven wounded Palestinians arrive in Tehran
* Schoolchildren start day with slogans against US
* Soldiers killed in Iran explosion
* Under-fire culture minister says he is ready to stay on
* Explosions hit Tehran for second day
* Iran, pressured over Israeli captives
* Iran criticises Arab summit

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Thursday
October 26, 2000

Saudi calls on Iran to sign a security accord

RIYADH, Oct 26 (AFP) - Saudi Arabia is ready to sign a security cooperation agreement with Iran, Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz said, urging Tehran to push ahead with the accord. "The Saudi kingdom is ready to sign a security agreement with Iran," he told a press conference late Wednesday, and called on Iran "to give a positive response to signing the agreement." >>> FULL TEXT

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Congressmen want Russia-Iran papers

WASHINGTON (AP) - The debate over an alleged secret deal on Russian arms sales advanced on Capitol Hill Thursday, with Republicans in both chambers calling for release of the agreement. ``We should demand it,'' Sen. Christopher Bond of Missouri said on the Senate floor. ``We should subpoena it.'' >>> FULL TEXT

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Hamilton defends Gore over arms

WASHINGTON (AP) - The former chairman of the House International Relations Committee says Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) fully briefed Congress on Russian arms sales to Iran and that Gore's critics on the issue are playing politics and harming U.S. national security. Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., stepped into the dispute with a statement as the Clinton administration denied Gore made a secret agreement allowing Russia to continue selling arms to Iran without triggering U.S. sanctions against Russia >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran says Iraq lets more pilgrims visit shrines

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Neighbors Iran and Iraq have agreed to allow more Iranian pilgrims to visit Shi'ite holy shrines in Iraq, Tehran's official IRNA news agency said on Thursday. The move is a sign of improving relations between the two countries, which have long been at odds over a host of issues including prisoners still held after their 1980-88 war and support for guerrilla groups fighting to overthrow each other's governments >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
October 25, 2000

U.S. State Dept. denies Gore-Russia deal

WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department said Wednesday there was no secret deal by the Clinton administration allowing Russian arms sales to Iran and endangering national security. An understanding between Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) and then-Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin in 1995 was ``announced publicly,'' said John P. Barker, deputy assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation control >>> FULL TEXT

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Khatami criticises Arab states for failing to defend Palestinians

TEHRAN, Oct 25 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami lashed out against Arab states Tuesday for failing to defend the Palestinian nation as the latest Middle East violence brought the death toll to near 140, the official IRNA news agency reported. "I, as a member of an Islamic nation, the head of state and the head of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), have serious complaints against the brothers in the Arab (Cairo) summit. You have not fulfilled the expectations of an Islamic nation," Khatami said >>> FULL TEXT

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OIC meeting of foreign ministers in doubt: diplomats

TEHRAN, Oct 25 (AFP) - The fate of a hoped-for emergency meeting of foreign ministers from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on the Middle East crisis was in doubt Tuesday, diplomats said. "We don't know what is happening but, the more time that goes by, the less likely it is, given the regular meeting already scheduled," a top-ranking Arab diplomat told AFP >>> FULL TEXT

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Revolutionary guards say Israel should be "wiped off" map

TEHRAN, Oct 25 (AFP) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran) called Tuesday for the obliteration of Israel, the official IRNA news agency reported. "The Pasdaran believe that the state of Israel, this tumorous cancer, must be wiped off the Middle East map," the corps said in a statement cited by IRNA >>> FULL TEXT

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Iraqi base MKO says mortar attack in Tehran carried out by women

NICOSIA, Oct 25 (AFP) - Iran's main armed opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, said Wednesday that a mortar attack it claimed to have launched on security headquarters in Tehran at the weekend was carried out by a unit made up exclusively of women. In a statement received by AFP here, the Mujuahedeen said "a number or Revolutionary Guards were killed or wounded" in the operation on Sunday morning, using weapons seized from government forces >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
October 24, 2000

Ex-Republican officials accuse Gore

WASHINGTON (AP) - Four former secretaries of state in Republican administrations and seven other ex-high level officials accused Vice President Al Gore of agreeing to Russia's sale of ``highly threatening'' military equipment to Iran in 1995 without fully informing Congress of the deal >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran MPs blast "illegal" US move over government payout

TEHRAN, Oct 24 (AFP) - Iran's reform-majority parliament on Tuesday slammed the "illegal" action of US lawmakers after Congress agreed to front money to eight families who have won court judgments against Iran. >>> FULL TEXT

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Seven wounded Palestinians arrive in Tehran for medical treatment

TEHRAN, Oct 24 (AFP) - Seven Palestinians arrived in Tehran early Tuesday for medical treatment in line with Iran's project to take in up to 100 Palestinians badly injured in the recent violence, the official IRNA news agency reported >>> FULL TEXT

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Schoolchildren start day with slogans against US, Israel

TEHRAN, Oct 24 (AFP) - Iranian schoolchildren nationwide began their school day Tuesday chanting slogans against Israel and the United States and in support of the Palestinians after an appeal from the education ministry >>> FULL TEXT

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Soldiers killed in Iran explosion

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - At least eight soldiers were killed and about a dozen injured by a huge explosion in an ammunition dump in northeastern Iran on Tuesday, an exile Iranian opposition group said >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
October 23, 2000

Under-fire culture minister says he is ready to stay on

TEHRAN, Oct 23 (AFP) - Embattled Iranian Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani said Monday he is prepared to stay in office at the request of President Mohammad Khatami, who is running for re-election next year. The 46-year-old minister, long a target of conservative wrath and a leading light of the reform movement who has already "resigned" twice, told AFP that he was willing to stand by his close all >>> FULL TEXT

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Explosions hit Tehran for second day

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Several explosions believed to be from mortar rounds rocked Tehran on Sunday for the second time in two days, Iranian state television reported. ``Sounds of explosions have been heard... It is believed the explosions were caused by mortar rounds,'' the television said. The exiled Iraq-based Mujahideen Khalq guerrilla group said it had launched the attack on the headquarters of special units of anti-riot forces >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran, pressured over Israeli captives denies influence on Hezbollah

TEHRAN, Oct 22 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami said Sunday that Iran had no influence on Hezbollah, implying that it would not try to coax the Lebanese militant group to release four Israeli captives. "Hezbollah is a Lebanese and Arab movement on which Iran exercises no influence," Khatami said >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran criticises Arab summit

TEHRAN, Oct 23 (AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry late Sunday criticised the results of the just-completed Arab summit in Cairo, saying it had failed to respond to the wishes of the Palestinians and other Muslims. "The Arab summit needed to take firm decisions, make concrete proposals to sypport the Palestinian people, and to decide to totally break-off relations with Israel," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Assefi was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency >>> FULL TEXT

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