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Nov 2-6, 1998 / Aban 11-15, 1377

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* Iran press gleeful over D'Amato defeat
* Russia sees catastrophic drop in Caspian sturgeon
* No progress on Afghanistan until Pakistan, Iran cooperate: UN
* Rafsanjani urges liberal transplant rules in Iran
* Iran's foreign minister leaves for Saudi visit
* Iran appoints new ambassador to Italy

Previous

* Iran's first private news agency gets licence
* Khodadad Azizi eliminated from national team?
* Iran to sell draft exemptions for $1,700 and up
* U.S. govt rejects Iran oil deal, signals tough stance
* U.N. investigator ``horrified'' by Taleban violations
* Home agenda usurps ``Great Satan'' in Iran
* 2001 to be U.N. Year of Dialogue among civilizations
* Khatami reaches toward Americans
* 19-year-olds on what happened 19 years ago

* Anti-U.S. rally marks hostage crisis
* Iran to award Caspian pipeline tender by end November
* Palestinians, Iran in war of words
* Skoda says Czech-Iran tension to hit sales
* Khamenei rejects U.S. ties
* Iran recalls Prague envoy over U.S. radio launch
* France confirms Khatami visit, date to be set
* Palestinian police say Iran funds Hamas attacks
* Khamenei rejects U.S. ties
* Iran recalls Prague envoy over U.S. radio launch
* France confirms Khatami visit, date to be set
* Palestinian police say Iran funds Hamas attacks
* Iran Islamist students offer olive branch to U.S.
* Khatami to visit France - newspaper
* Iran hits mock enemy to end Afghan border war games
* Iran's Kharrazi to visit Saudi this week - envoy
* Iran says best route for Caspian oil

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Friday
Nov 6, 1998

* Iran press gleeful over D'Amato defeat

TEHRAN, Nov 5 (AFP) -Iran's press gloated on Thursday over the defeat in US congressional elections of New York senator Alfonso D'Amato, who is reviled here as the architect of the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act. "Irrational and pro-Zionist Republican Senator D'Amato faced a humiliating defeat. He unsuccessfuly tried to isolate Iran through an infamous law," said the conservative Tehran Times... FULL TEXT

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* Russia sees catastrophic drop in Caspian sturgeon

MOSCOW, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Stocks of caviar-producing sturgeon in the Caspian Sea are falling ``catastrophically,'' victims of over-fishing, poaching and pollution, Russian officials said on Friday. Russia's quota for sturgeon catches in the Caspian is expected to fall next year to 700 tonnes from 1,200 tonnes this year, Interfax news agency quoted the state fisheries committee as saying... FULL TEXT

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* No progress on Afghanistan until Pakistan, Iran cooperate: UN

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 (AFP) -No progress can be made in resolving the Afghan conflict until Afghanistan's neighbours, Iran and Pakistan, decide to cooperate, the UN special representative said Thursday... FULL TEXT

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* Rafsanjani urges liberal transplant rules in Iran

TEHRAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday urged the adoption of more liberal laws on organ transplants in Iran, saying Islam did not oppose the procedure. ``Parliament's refusal to pass a law (allowing transplants) a few years ago has caused problems for some doctors,'' said Rafsanjani, who now heads a top state body, in a prayer sermon carried by Tehran radio. Rafsanjani did not elaborate, but physicians say they could face prosecution if they perform some transplants because of unclear guidelines... FULL TEXT

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* Iran's foreign minister leaves for Saudi visit

TEHRAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi left for Saudi Arabia on Friday for talks expected to include Iran's row with the Afghan Taleban. Kharrazi, who last visited the Kingdom in June, will discuss boosting bilateral cooperation and regional and international issues with his Saudi counterpart and other senior officials during the two-day visit, IRNA added... FULL TEXT

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* Iran appoints new ambassador to Italy

TEHRAN, Nov 3 (AFP) - Iran has appointed its former ambassador to France, Ali Ahani, as its new envoy to Italy, the foreign ministry announced Tuesday. Ahani has also been director general for Euro-American, Asia-Pacific and West European affairs in the foreign ministry, the official IRNA news agency said. He replaces Homayoun Zadeh.

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Thursday
Nov 5, 1998

* Iran's first private news agency gets licence

TEHRAN, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The Iranian government has granted a licence for the country's first private news agency, Iranian television said on Thursday. Fars News Agency, named after a province which was a cradle of Iranian civilisation, will be launched by next March, the television quoted the agency's head as saying... FULL TEXT

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* Khodadad Azizi eliminated from national team?

Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - The man who took Iran to its first World Cup soccer games in 20 years with a last minute goal against Australia has apparently been left out of the new national team lineup ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Iran to sell draft exemptions for $1,700 and up

TEHRAN, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Iran has put a price tag on mandatory military service, allowing young men to buy their way out of a 21-month hitch in the army for $1,700 and up. Under rules approved by the government, exemption fees ranged from 11.5 million rials ($3,800 at the official exchange rate) for those without high school degrees to about three times that for doctorate holders, the daily Resalat said on Wednesday... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. govt rejects Iran oil deal, signals tough stance

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has rejected one of two requests it was considering from American companies looking for permission to do oil-swap deals with Iran. The rejection -- together with remarks earlier this week by President Clinton's advisor on Caspian energy policy in which he said such oil-swap deals might detour oil from the U.S.'s preferred trade route via Azerbaijan and Turkey -- suggests the administration's policy is still firmly against allowing U.S. companies to deal with Iran ... FULL TEXT

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* U.N. investigator ``horrified'' by Taleban violations

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A U.N. human rights investigator said on Thursday he was ``horrified'' by the latest reports from Afghanistan, where thousands of people were said to have been killed when Taleban forces captured the areas of Mazar-i-Sharif and Bamiyan. ``The scale of violations in Afghanistan and suffering of the civilian population warrants the urgent attention of the world community,'' said Choong-Hyun Paik of South Korea, a special rapporteur for the U.N. Human Rights Commission ... FULL TEXT

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* Home agenda usurps ``Great Satan'' in Iran

TEHRAN, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Iranians revelled in anti-U.S. rhetoric this week but the ritual chants of ``Death to America'' can no longer drown out the swelling drumbeat of political warfare closer to home. ``The Iranian nation still considers the arrogant government of America its number one enemy,'' declared an official rally proclamation. But take a closer look, say analysts, and what was once an article of faith of the Islamic revolution has given way to a struggle for the future of the revolution itself... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
Nov 4, 1998

* 2001 to be U.N. Year of Dialogue among civilizations

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The General Assembly decided on Wednesday, on the initiative of Iran, to designate 2001 as the U.N. Year of Dialogue among Civilisations. A resolution sponsored by some 50 countries and adopted by consensus invited governments, the U.N. system and other organisations to arrange appropriate cultural, educational and social programmes ... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami reaches toward Americans

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami Wednesday used the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. embassy to renew his message of reconciliation with the American people. But he charged that U.S. policymakers had failed to heed the call of public opinion backing a restoration of ties between the two countries. ``What happened in Iran was not a fight against the American people, but against anti-Iranian policies,'' Khatami, a moderate Shi'ite Muslim cleric, told students at a new girls' school... FULL TEXT

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* 19-year-olds on what happened 19 years ago

Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Hamshahri has interviewed several young students who took part in Monday's relatively mild anti-American demonstration in front of the U.S. embassy... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Anti-U.S. rally marks hostage crisis

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians gathered Wednesday at the gates of the former U.S. embassy for an annual rally against the ``arrogant'' policies of the ``Great Satan.'' Schoolchildren bussed in for the official event swelled the crowd in central Tehran, marking the 19th anniversary of the embassy takeover by militant Islamic students who held 52 Americans hostage for more than a year. Some of the young people wore military fatigues while others sported green-and-red headbands emblazoned with the Moslem rallying cry of ``Allahu Akbar'' (God is Greatest)... FULL TEXT

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* Iran to award Caspian pipeline tender by end November

LONDON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Iran will award its tender to build a new pipeline from the Caspian Sea to its northern refineries by the end of November, Deputy Minister for Caspian Oil and Gas Affairs Ali Majedi told Reuters on Wednesday. ``We have had 13 proposals including submissions from Chinese, Italian and German companies and we are going to make a decision this month,'' he said on the fringe of an industry conference ... FULL TEXT

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* Palestinians, Iran in war of words

JERUSALEM, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The new U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian interim peace deal has sparked a war of words between the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Iran. But analysts said an exchange of insults between Iran and the Palestinian Authority since the deal was signed has as much to do with the domestic politics of both sides as with their radically different approaches to peace moves with Israel... FULL TEXT

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* Skoda says Czech-Iran tension to hit sales

PRAGUE, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Troubled Czech engineering group Skoda a.s. said on Wednesday that diplomatic tension between the Czech Republic and Iran may cost it a direct sales loss of up to two billion Czech crowns ($68.47 million). Iran recalled its ambassador from the Czech Republic on Tuesday and has limited trade ties to protest against a new Farsi-language service of U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to the Islamic republic from Prague... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
Nov 3, 1998

* Khamenei rejects U.S. ties

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled out Tuesday any normalization with the United States, saying no ties with Washington ``benefits the Iranian people 100 percent.'' ``(Western) propaganda feeds rumors to the effect that the break in relations between Iran and America's government is detrimental to the Iranian people. No sir, it benefits the Iranian people 100 percent,'' Khamenei said in a speech marking the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran... FULL TEXT

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* Iran recalls Prague envoy over U.S. radio launch

TEHRAN, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Iran has recalled its ambassador from the Czech Republic and reduced trade contacts in protest against U.S.-funded radio broadcasts to the Islamic republic from Prague, Tehran radio reported on Tuesday. It quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Mahmoud Mohammadi as saying the Czech Republic had ``backed hostile action by America'' by hosting the new Persian-language service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), based in Prague... FULL TEXT

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* France confirms Khatami visit, date to be set

PARIS, Nov 3 (Reuters) - France on Tuesday confirmed press reports that Iranian President Mohammad Khatami planned to visit France but said the date had yet to be set. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret said Tehran authorities had confirmed Khatami accepted an invitation extended by French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine when he visited Tehran last August... FULL TEXT

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* Palestinian police say Iran funds Hamas attacks

GAZA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Palestinian police chief Ghazi al-Jabali said on Monday an Iranian-backed wing of the Islamic militant group Hamas was responsible for a car suicide bombing that narrowly missed a busload of schoolchildren in Gaza. A leader of the political wing of Hamas has denied the group had anything to do with the attack... FULL TEXT

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Monday
November 2, 1998

* Iran Islamist students offer olive branch to U.S.

TEHRAN, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Iran's biggest student movement, heirs to the activists who seized the U.S. embassy 19 years ago, marked the takeover on Monday with an unprecedented show of conciliation towards the ``Great Satan.'' ``In the heat of revolutionary fervour things happen that cannot be fully contained,'' read one banner -- tantalisingly close to an apology to a country still routinely denounced as the Great Satan... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami to visit France - newspaper

PARIS, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami plans to visit France in February, his first visit to a European country since being elected in 1997, the newspaper Le Monde said on Monday. The daily said it was told of Khatami's plans by Iran's new ambassador to France Ali Reza Moayeri, who retains his status as a special presidential adviser despite his posting abroad. The Iranian embassy was not immediately available for comment on the report ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran hits mock enemy to end Afghan border war games

TEHRAN, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Some 200,000 Iranian troops staged a final attack against a mock enemy on Monday at the end of war games near the tense Afghan border, Iran's state media reported. Iranian television showed infantry forces and tanks advancing after air force bombers and an artillery and missile barrage softened up ``enemy'' positions... FULL TEXT

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* Kharrazi to visit Saudi this week - envoy

DUBAI, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi is to visit Saudi Arabia this week, the latest of several visits between the countries as relations have warmed. Iran's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Mohammed Reza Nouri, said on Monday that Kharrazi would arrive in Jeddah on Thursday from where he would make a pilgrimage before going to Riyadh two days later to meet King Fahd and other senior officials ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran says best route for Caspian oil

CAPE TOWN, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Iran on Saturday renewed its claim to be the best export route for Caspian oil and gas, saying sanctions were delaying regional energy development by promoting unviable pipeline routes. ``All sanctions on crude oil swaps, investments and political considerations on pipelines should be cleared so that the region could realise all its potentials,'' said Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh ... FULL TEXT

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