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Friday
January 26, 2001

Putin voices hope for compromise

MOSCOW (AP) - Reasserting a tough stance on Russian-U.S. relations, President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) on Friday spoke out against NATO (news - web sites) expansion and Washington's plans for a national missile defense system but voiced hope for a compromise on both issues >>> FULL TEXT

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Rumsfeld-'Raw and random violence' threatens U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pledged on Friday that the Bush administration will push to protect America from new threats ranging from suitcase bombs to the ``raw and random violence of the outlaw regime.''>>> FULL TEXT

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* Putin voices hope for compromise
* Rumsfeld-'Raw and random violence' threatens U.S.
* Khatami warns regional countries against Israeli threat
* Iran sends recovered Palestinians home, welcomes more wounded
* Reza Pahlavi urges end to support for moderates
* Parliament condemns press
crackdown by courts

* Court summons reform official
* Syrian President arrives for first Iran visit
* Body of a teacher murdered in Karachi flown to Tehran
* Deputy interior minister out on bail, facing vote-rigging charges
* Syria's President Assad to make first official Iran trip Wednesday
* Parliament speaker calls for referendum on Palestine
* Several Mujahedeen killed, arrested in western Iran: TV
* Political plot against Khatami uncovered by Shiraz police
* Conservatives blast vote overseer, want "fair" elections
* MKO launch rocket attacks in capital
* Iran, Cuba discuss cooperation

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Thursday
January 25, 2001

Khatami warns regional countries against Israeli threat

TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami said Thursday that Israel was the greatest threat and danger to the Muslim world and urged countries in the regioni not to forget that, the IRNA news agency reported. Speaking to visiting Omani Deputy Prime Minister for Cabinet Affairs Sayed Fahd bin Mamud al-Said, Khatami said Israel represented the "biggest crisis, threat and danger in the region and in the Islamic world," the state agency said >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran sends recovered Palestinians home, welcomes more wounded

TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - Ten Palestinians, including one woman, injured by Israeli forces in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are due to arrive in Tehran late Thursday for treatment, officials told AFP. Ramezan Sharif, spokesman for the Tehran-based Organization in Defence of the Intifada, said nine other Palestinians who had recovered from their injuries after treatment in Iran were flown back home earlier during the day >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
January 24, 2001

Reza Pahlavi urges end to support for moderates

WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (AFP) - Reza Pahlavi, son and heir of the late Shah of Iran, on Wednesday urged the international community, particularly the United States, to abandon efforts to improve ties with the current Iranian regime. Pahlavi said the Islamic republic's current government, led by President Mohammad Khatami who is seen by many as moderate, had failed to live up to promises to institute wide-ranging reforms >>> FULL TEXT

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Parliament condemns press crackdown by courts

TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - A majority of reformist members of the parliament Wednesday condemned the conservative-dominated courts for the arrest of journalists and closure of reformist papers and for recent sentences handed out to "political detainees", television reported. In an open letter to the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi, more than 150 deputies expressed their "deep concern" over "the illegal actions" of the judicial system >>> FULL TEXT

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Court summons reform official

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An Iranian court on Tuesday held a key ally of reformist President Mohammad Khatami responsible for alleged irregularities in last year's legislative elections in which hard-liners suffered a stunning defeat. ``I was summoned to the court to give some explanations on the February legislative polls in Tehran but the meeting became an all-out trial session,'' said the deputy interior minister, Mostafa Tajzadeh, who was freed on bail of $12,500 >>> FULL TEXT

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Syrian President arrives for first-ever Iran visit

TEHRAN, Jan 24 (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Asssad arrived here Wednesday for his first visit to close regional ally Iran since taking power six months ago after the death of his father, officials told AFP. Assad, who has made only a handful of trips abroad since succeeding Hafez al-Assad in July, will meet with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammad Khatami during his two-day visit >>> FULL TEXT

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Body of a teacher murdered in Karachi flown to Tehran

KARACHI, Jan 24 (AFP) - The body of a teacher murdered here last week was flown to Tehran Wednesday on an Iran Air plane, police said. Aga Sultani was gunned down outside his home near his Shiite Muslim seminary on Saturday. "His entire family also left with the body," Pakistani Shiite political party leader Hasan Turabi said >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
January 23, 2001

Deputy interior minister out on bail, facing vote-rigging charges

TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - The embattled deputy interior minister was freed on bail Tuesday after a court hearing on charges of vote-rigging in last year's parliamentary elections, judicial sources said. Mostafa Tajzadeh was allowed to go by the Tehran administrative court after paying some 12,500 dollars in bail at the end of the closed-door hearing, they said >>> FULL TEXT

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Syria's President Assad to make first official Iran trip Wednesday

TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is due in Tehran on Wednesday for his first official visit to Iran since taking over power in Damascus last July, the Iranian government newspaper said Tueday. Assad, who will be heading a large Syrian delegation, will meet with Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammed Khatami, the paper said, without specifying how long the visit would last >>> FULL TEXT

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Parliament speaker calls for referendum on Palestine

AMMAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karubi on Tuesday said Jews, Christians and Muslims who lived in Palestine before the creation of Israel in 1948 should take part in a referendum on its future. "We demand a referendum that would involve the three monotheistic religions that lived in Palestine before 1948," Karubi told a news conference in Amman at the end of a three-day visit to Jordan >>> FULL TEXT

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Several Mujahedeen killed, arrested in western Iran: TV

TEHRAN, Jan 23 (AFP) - Several members of the armed, Iraqi-based People's Mujahedeen opposition have been killed and others arrested in western Iran near the Iraqi border, television reported Tuesday. "These members of the terrorist group were killed or arrested as they attempted to enter Iran from Iraq to carry out terrorist acts," the report said, adding that further details would be provided later >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
January 22, 2001

Political plot against Khatami uncovered by Shiraz police

TEHRAN, Jan 22 (AFP) - A "huge plot" aimed at politically discrediting President Mohammad Khatami was uncovered recently in the southern city of Shiraz, and "suspect elements" have been arrested, press reported Monday. "There was premeditated action on a large scale against the president," according to Hadi Pejuheh, a security official from Fars province quoted by the pres >>> FULL TEXT

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Conservatives blast vote overseer, want "fair" elections

TEHRAN, Jan 22 (AFP) - A leading conservative group on Monday called for the June presidential elections to be "free and fair" after the reformist official overseeing the vote was hit by a variety of court charges. The Islamic Coalition Association (ICA) said in a statement carried by the press that voters would only turn out if there were "propitious conditions and a fair competition between the candidates >>> FULL TEXT

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MKO launch rocket attacks in capital

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian opposition rebels launched a mortar attack on judicial headquarters in the capital on Sunday but there was no immediate word on any casualties. The official IRNA news agency said ``four mortar shells rattled northeastern Tehran'' without giving further details. A statement from the Mujahideen Khalq Organization (MKO) faxed to Reuters in Dubai said the group's guerrillas had fired mortars at the headquarters of the chief prosecutor's headquarters and the city's Islamic Revolutionary Courts >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran, Cuba discuss cooperation

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and his Cuban counterpart met Monday and called for boosting cooperation between their countries, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported >>> FULL TEXT

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