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Friday
February 2, 2001
Shah's Rolls Royce Stars at Charity Auction
CAIRO (Reuters) - Fancy the black Cadillac owned by Egypt's former President
Gamal Abdel-Nasser? Or the gold-fitted white Rolls Royce used by the late
Shah of Iran? Both can be snapped up at a week-long charity auction that
was launched at a gala dinner for Cairo's rich and famous on Monday to
raise money for mentally handicapped children >>>
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Kharrazi inaugurates embassy in Belarus
MINSK, Feb 2 (AFP) - Foreign Minister Kamal Khazari on Friday inaugurated
an embassy in the Belarus capital Minsk on the second day of a two-day
visit. His Belarus counterpart Mikhail Khvostov said the opening was a
"historic event" in relations between the two countries >>> FULL TEXT
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* Shah's Rolls Royce Stars at Charity
Auction
* Kharrazi inaugurates embassy in Belarus
* Top judge chastises MPs for defending "Westernized"
thinkers
* Saudi to sign security accord with Iran this month: Saudi
minister
* Deputy interior minister to organise presidential vote
* Pakistani supreme court rejects plea of Iranian diplomat's
killer
* MPs in closed-door session over unrest charges against
deputy minister
* Foreign minister expected in Berlin soon
* Zhirinovsky says Tehran-Moscow need to strengthen Caspian
Sea cooperation
* Iran readies for anniversary of revolution
* Kharrazi arrives in Kiev for three-day visit
* Russian ultranationalist welcomed by Majlis
* Iran calls for joint navy to control Persian Gulf
* Police seize 4,000 litres of home brew: report
* Conservatives negotiating to choose candidate for president:
ICA
* Saudi cabinet approves security accord with Iran
* Kharrazi to visit Minsk after Kiev talks this week
* Parliament approves budget to fight US influence in Iran
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Thursday
February 1, 2001
Top judge chastises MPs for defending "Westernized" thinkers
TEHRAN, Feb 1 (AFP) - The head of the judiciary denounced reformist
MPs Thursday, saying they weakened parliament by defending Westernized
journalists and other liberals. "MPs should promote Islamic values
before the concerns of a limited number of Westernized people," Ayatollah
Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi wrote the deputies, telling them they had "lowered
the moral prestige" of the parliament >>>
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Saudi to sign security accord with Iran this month: Saudi minister
RIYADH, Feb 1 (AFP) - Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul
Aziz said Thursday that a security cooperation accord between the kingdom
and Iran will be signed in the latter half of February. Prince Nayef told
newspapers he was "waiting for his brothers in Iran to fix an exact
date" for his visit to Tehran during which he will sign the accord
with his Iranian counterpart Abdolvahed Mussavi-Lari >>>
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Deputy interior minister to organise presidential vote
TEHRAN, Feb 1 (AFP) - The deputy interior minister Mostafa Tajzadeh,
who is a target of the conservative camp, will oversee the country's presidential
elections in June, an official said Thursday. The official said Interior
Minister Abdolvahed Mussavi-Lara had confirmed his deputy in the job during
a closed-door session of parliament Wednesday, despite charges from conservatives
that Tajzadeh's support for outgoing President Mohammad Khatami means he
cannot be impartial >>>
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Pakistani supreme court rejects plea of Iranian diplomat's killer
ISLAMABAD, Feb 1 (AFP) - A special supreme court bench Thursday rejected
a review petition from a man convicted of killing an Iranian diplomat 10
years ago and sentenced to death, officials said. Haq Nawaz, an activist
with an extremist Sunni group, was sentenced to death over the December
19, 1990, murder of Iranian cultural centre director Sadiq Ganji in the
eastern city of Lahore >>>
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Wednesday
January 31, 2001
MPs in closed-door session over unrest charges against deputy minister
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - The reform-majority parliament held a special
closed-door session Wednesday to examine the unrest which marred a pro-reform
student conference last year, state television said. The session was called
following charges reportedly laid against Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa
Tajzadeh, a target of conservatives, for inciting the unrest. Reformists
are backing Tajzadeh >>>
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Foreign minister expected in Berlin soon
BERLIN, Jan 31 (AFP) - Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi is expected in
Berlin soon to meet his German counterpart Joschka Fischer for talks likely
to focus on a controversial trial that has strained relations between the
two countries. Kharazi could also hold talks with Hans-Ulrich Klose, the
representative for the foreign affairs commission in Germany's lower house
of parliament, sources close to the government here said. No date has been
set for the visit yet >>>
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Zhirinovsky says Tehran-Moscow need to strengthen Caspian Sea cooperation
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - Visiting Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky
on Wednesday called for strengthened Tehran-Moscow cooperation over the
oil-rich Caspian Sea's legal status. "Irano-Russian cooperation plays
an important role in defining the Caspian Sea's legal regime," Zhirinovsky
said during talks with Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Ahani, the state IRNA
newsagency reported >>>
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Tuesday
January 30, 2001
Iran readies for anniversary of revolution
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - Iran on Wednesday begins 10 days of state celebrations
honouring the creation of the Islamic republic, amid a wide-open political
battle between the reformist and conservative heirs of founder Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini. The annual festivities marking the 1979 Islamic revolution
will kick off at 9:30 a.m. (0600 GMT), the exact hour when Khomeini returned
from exile to lead the overthrow of the shah's imperial regime 10 days
later >>>
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Kharrazi arrives in Kiev for three-day visit
MOSCOW, Jan 30 (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi arrived
Tuesday in Ukraine for a three-day official visit and a series of high-level
talks, officials told AFP. Kharazi was due to hold talks with Ukrainian
President Leonid Kuchma, Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko and Foreign Minister
Anatoly Zlenko >>>
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Russian ultranationalist welcomed by Majlis
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky
was received with honor by parliament, where he met with deputy speaker
Behzad Nabavi, state television announced. Zhirinovsky, whose visit to
Iran was not previously announced by local media, was making an "exploratory
trip" to Tehran at the head of a Russian parliamentary delegation
and will meet with a number of MPs, an Iranian source said >>>
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Iran calls for joint navy to control Persian Gulf
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - The top environmental official called Tuesday
on littoral states to form a joint naval force to control shipping traffic
in the Persian Gulf in a bid to fight mounting pollution. Vice President
Masumeh Ebtekar, who heads Iran's environmental protection organisation,
warned both oil exploration and busy shipping lanes are "threatening
the ecological balance in the Persian Gulf >>>
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Police seize 4,000 litres of home brew: report
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - Police seized 4,000 litres of alcohol distilled
from dates in a northeast Tehran suburb after neighbours complained, the
afternoon daily Kayhan reported Tuesday. The paper said the brew. along
with quantities of date concentrate, was discovered in a house in Boumehen,
where a Christian Iran was making it to sell locally >>>
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Monday
January 29, 2001
Conservatives negotiating to choose candidate for president: ICA
TEHRAN, Jan 29 (AFP) - The influential head of the Islamic Coalition
Association (ICA) said Monday that conservatives are in the middle of talks
to agree on a candidate for the June presidential elections. "We're
negotiating with other groups and we will have our candidate in due time,"
said Habibollah Asgharowladi from the ICA, the largest group in the traditional
conservative Islamic right >>>
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Saudi cabinet approves security accord with Iran
RIYADH, Jan 29 (AFP) - The Saudi government on Monday approved the text
of a security cooperation accord to be signed with Iran, the official news
agency SPA reported. It said the cabinet examined the agreement and "decided
to mandate (Interior Minister) Prince Nayef (bin Abdul Aziz) or a representative
whom he designates to sign this accord >>>
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Kharrazi to visit Minsk after Kiev talks this week
TEHRAN, Jan 29 (AFP) - Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi will travel on
to Belarus after talks starting Tuesday in Ukraine with President Leonid
Kuchma, the official IRNA news agency said. Foreign ministry spokesman
Hamid-Reza Asefi, cited by IRNA, said Monday that the Kiev talks would
touch on economic, parliamentary and cutural relations >>>
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Parliament approves budget to fight US influence in Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 29 (AFP) - The reform-majority parliament on Monday approved
some 20 million dollars in funds to fight US influence in the Islamic republic.
The measure, passed as MPs continue a line-by-line evaluation of the budget
for the next Iranian year which begins in March, is aimed at battling the
influence and "cultural invasion" of the United States >>> FULL TEXT
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