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Friday
February 9, 2001
Monarchist opposition happy with demonstrations
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (AFP) - Iran's monarchist opposition, in exile in
the United States, expressed its support Friday of demonstrations in Tehran
held in protest at Iran's Islamic regime. The demonstrations are a direct
result of a move by Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran's former shah, to intensify
his campaign against the Islamic regime which ousted his father, mainly
via foreign radio stations and the Internet, according to opposition leader
Khosrow Akmal >>>
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Chancellor Schroeder To Visit Iran
BERLIN (AP) - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Thursday accepted an invitation
to visit Iran, government officials said, in a sign that both countries
are trying to ease strained relations. Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi
met Schroeder and handed an invitation from Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami, a government spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity
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* Monarchist opposition happy with demonstrations
* Chancellor Schroeder To Visit Iran
* Network of Khatami allies working against revolution, court
boss charges
* Schroeder only to make Iran visit "when conditions
are right"
* Khamenei pardons prisoners to mark revolution anniversary
* Cuban president to visit Iran this year
* Deputy Interior minister refuses to appear in court closed
to public
* Khamenei warns against foreign-led "cultural pollution"
in Iran
* Jafar Shafaghat, Shah loyalist, former war minister dies
in France
* Official targeted by conservatives goes back on trial
* Political row over Iran budget to be referred to oversight
council
* US flags up, then down, at Tehran film festival: paper
* Government should face human rights tribunal: MKO
* Nearly one tonne of heroin seized in Tehran in 10 months
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Thursday
February 8, 2001
Network of Khatami allies working against revolution, court boss
charges
TEHRAN, Feb 8 (AFP) - The head of Iran's clerical court has accused
backers of a leading dissident of financing an illicit network working
to undermine the nation's Islamic system, a conservative paper reported
Thursday. The accusation targets several close allies of embattled reformist
President Mohammad Khatami, including some who are in prison for attacking
conservatives who have stymied Khatami's programme of liberalising reforms
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Schroeder only to make Iran visit "when conditions are right"
BERLIN, Feb 8 (AFP) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told Iran's
Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi on Thursday that he would only make a proposed
visit to Iran when there are "the conditions for a successful visit",
a government statement said >>>
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Khamenei pardons prisoners to mark revolution anniversary
TEHRAN, Feb 8 (AFP) - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pardoned
Thursday an unspecified number of prisoners to mark the 22nd anniversary
of the Islamic revolution, the state news agency IRNA reported. Other prisoners
had their sentences reduced, IRNA said. Their was no indication whether
10 Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel, who were reported earlier
to have asked Khamenei for a pardon, were among the number >>>
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Cuban president to visit Iran this year
HAVANA, Feb 8 (AFP) - Cuba's President Fidel Castro is to visit Iran
in the course of 2001, Iranian diplomatic sources said Wednesday. Several
dates have been proposed for the trip, including during the visit to Tehran
by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque last month. Iran's Ambassador
to Cuba Seyed Davood Salehi told press >>>
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Wednesday
February 7, 2001
Deputy Interior minister refuses to appear in court closed to public
TEHRAN, Feb 7 (AFP) - Deputy interior minister, Mostafa Tajzadeh, a
close reformist ally of President Mohammad Khatami, refused Wednesday to
appear in court on a battery of charges because it was closed to the press,
an AFP correspondent witnessed. Tajzadeh left the venue of the administrative
tribunal in central Tehran after determining that reporters and photographers
were not being admitted to the courtroom >>>
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Khamenei warns against foreign-led "cultural pollution"
in Iran
TEHRAN, Feb 7 (AFP) - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday
warned against what he called the "cultural pollution" in the
country caused by foreign-influenced circles hostile to the regime, state
radio said. "Look at the polemic and controversy which periodically
control certain circles in Iran acting under foreign influence. That is
called cultural pollution," because it aims at influencing public
opinion, Khamenei said during a meeting with air force officials >>> FULL TEXT
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Jafar Shafaghat, Shah loyalist, former war minister dies in France
NICE, France, Feb 7 (AFP) - Jafar Shafaghat, a general and staunch supporter
of the late Shah of Iran, died Sunday in the southern French town of Nice,
aged 86, his family said Tuesday. Shafaghat, who handed Muhammad Reza Shah
Pahlevi the crown at his coronation ceremony on October 26, 1967, fled
to France in 1980 after the fall of the Shah and his replacement by an
Islamic regime >>>
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Tuesday
February 6, 2001
Iran's army chief of staff replaced again
Februay 5, 2001, Teheran (dpa) - Iran's army chief of staff was replaced
again, the official news agency IRNA reported Monday. Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, who also acts as commander-in-chief of the armed forces,
appointed Monday former ground forces commander, Brigadier General Pourshasb,
as the new chief of staff, IRNA said >>>
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Fundamentalists disrupt speech by Khatami's brother on reforms
TEHRAN, Feb 6 (AFP) - Mohammad-Reza Khatami, head of largest pro-reform
party, was booed and verbally attacked by fundamentalists during a speech
on the "future of reforms" in the southern holy city of Qom,
newspapers reported Tuesday. Mohammad-Reza, the brother of moderate Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami, was speaking when a group of some 100 young
fundamentalists entered the Haydarian stadium and began booing him >>> FULL
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Parliamentary delegation departs for Paris
TEHRAN, Jan 6 (AFP) - A parliamentary delegation left Tehran Tuesday
for Paris for talks on bilateral relations following an invitation by members
of the French Senate and National Assembly, the official IRNA news agency
reported. The eight-man delegtaion headed by Elias Hazrati, the president
of the economic affairs committee of reform-majority parliament, will be
received by high-ranking officials in the assembly, Senate and the foreign
ministry >>>
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Iran uncovers gang smuggling underage prostitutes to Persian Gulf
countries
TEHRAN, Feb 6 (AFP) - The judiciary on Tuesday said a prostitution ring
which smuggled underage girls to Persian Gulf states was uncovered and
a number of people arrested, the official IRNA news agency reported. "The
young girls, aged between 13 and 17, were selected before being sent to
Arab countries in the Persian Gulf," said Abbasali Alizadeh, head
of the Tehran province judiciary cited by IRNA
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Monday
February 5, 2001
Official targeted by conservatives goes back on trial
TEHRAN, Feb 4 (AFP) - Iran's embattled Deputy Interior Minister Mostafa
Tajzadeh, a close reformist ally of President Mohammad Khatami, returned
to court Sunday in his trial for electoral fraud. Court officials only
permitted a small group of Iranian journalists to cover the session >>> FULL
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Political row over Iran budget to be referred to oversight council
TEHRAN, Feb 4 (AFP) - A conservative-led Iranian oversight council has
rejected next year's budget despite its approval by the reform-majority
parliament, legislative sources said Sunday. The rejection means the political
row over the budget for the Iranian year beginning in March will be adjudicated
by the powerful Expediency Council for the first time since Iran's 1979
Islamic revolution >>>
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US flags up, then down, at Tehran film festival: paper
TEHRAN, Feb 3 (AFP) - US flags put up for an international film festival
in Tehran have been taken down by order of the culture ministry, the Kayhan
newspaper said Saturday. The paper did not give any further details about
why the flags at various cinemas had been taken down for the annual Fajr
festival marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution >>> FULL TEXT
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Government should face human rights tribunal: MKO
LONDON, Feb 3 (AFP) - Leading figures in the government should be brought
before an international tribunal for "crimes against humanity,"
the self-acclaimed "shadow foreign minister" of Iran's controversial
Iraqi based exiled opposition said on Saturday >>>
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Nearly one tonne of heroin seized in Tehran in 10 months
TEHRAN, Feb 5 (AFP) - Nearly one tonne of heroin was seized in Tehran
over the past 10 months, the Iranian capital's police chief, Mohsen Ansari,
said Sunday. "Over the past 10 months, 838 kilograms of heroin were
seized in Tehran", Ansari was quoted as saying by the Iranian daily
Kayhan >>>
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