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* Death sentence against editor lifted - unconfirmed
* Afghan Taleban accuse Iran of violating air space
* Iran accused of crackdown, arrests of Bahais
* Britain making "fresh start" with Iran
* Pakistan hopes Iran diplomatic staff cut temporary
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* Iran stages war games
on Afghan border
* FM spokesman: no change in iran-pakistan relations
* U.S. urges Iran not to execute condemned Baha'is
* 27 Bahais arrested in Iran
* Iran suspends pro-Khatami weekly newspaper
* Khatami inaugurates 24th Tehran trade fair
* Iran stages mock attacks
near Afghan border
* "Servants" party disymayed
* Soccer fans damage/destroy 150 buses
* Afghan-Iran standoff hits border trade
* Nearly 250 Experts candidates rejected
* Baha'i death sentences in Iran
* Mohajerani says he ''won't back down ''
* Albright urges patience toward Iran
* Kharrazi calls for change in U.S. policy
* "Tous" and "Jaameh-ye Saalem" banned
* Rafsanjani's daughter on trial over press charges
* Iran signals may sweeten foreign oil terms
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Friday,
Oct 2 1998
* Death sentence against editor lifted - unconfirmed
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (THE IRANIAN) - The death sentence against newspaper
editor Mohammad Firoozi has been lifted, sources in Tehran said. Judicial
authorities have made no official announcement and there has been no independent
confirmation. But sources close to Iran News, where Firoozi worked, said
they had received word from the judiciary that Firoozi is no longer facing
the death sentence. Firoozi had been condemned to death in January after
being convicted of adultery and spying.
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* Afghan Taleban accuse Iran of violating air space
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban Islamic militia said
Iranian jets and helicopters violated Afghan airspace three times on Friday,
a Pakistan-based Afghan news agency reported. Afghan Islamic Press (AIP)
quoted a Taleban official as saying that between 8.30 to 11 a.m. (0400-0630
GMT) Iranian jet fighters in three separate instances entered Afghan air
space in Nimroz province bordering Iran... FULL
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* Iran accused of crackdown, arrests of Bahais
PARIS, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Members of the Bahai faith in France accused
the Iranian authorities on Friday of launching a major crackdown against
Bahais in 14 cities across Iran, arresting 32 people and breaking into
and looting many homes. All those arrested were professors and teachers
conducting ``open-university'' type courses for young Bahais who their
French fellow believers say are banned by authorities from attending universities
and other institutions of higher learning, a Bahai spokeswoman in France
said... FULL
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* Britain making "fresh start" with Iran
LONDON, Oct. 1, (IRNA) - foreign secretary robin cook said thursday
that the deal he secured with his iranian counterpart kamal kharrazi in
new york last week means britain making "a fresh start with iran and
the wider islamic world." "iran is currently president of the
organisation of the islamic nations, britain is currently president of
the g-8 nations," he said ... FULL
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* Pakistan hopes Iran diplomatic staff cut temporary
ISLAMABAD, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Pakistan's deputy foreign minister Siddique
Kanju said on Friday he believed Iran's decision to cuts its staff in Pakistan
was due to financial constraints and hoped the reduction was temporary.
Iran said on Thursday it had recalled some of its diplomats from Pakistan
but insisted the move did not affect relations between the two countries,
which are at odds over the conflict in Afghanistan... FULL
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Thursday
Oct 1, 1998
* Iran stages war games on Afghan border
October 1, (BBC) - Some 200,000 troops are expected
to take part Iran has announced the start of another series of major military
exercises near its border with Afghanistan. The manoeuvres are biggest
Iran has ever staged - some 200,000 troops are expected to take part ...
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* FM spokesman: no change in iran-pakistan relations
TEHRAN, Oct. 1, (IRNA) - following the return home of some iranian diplomats
along with their families from pakistan, foreign ministry spokesman mahmoud
mohammadi said here on thursday that this did not mean any change in the
level of diplomatic relations between iran and pakistan. the group of iranian
diplomats have returned home because of some problems, he said. sources
have put the number of returnees at 60... FULL TEXT
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* U.S. urges Iran not to execute condemned Baha'is
WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday called on
Iran not to execute two condemned members of the Baha'i faith, which is
considered heresy by Islamic fundamentalists. The State Department issued
the call after Baha'is in France said on Tuesday that death sentences had
been confirmed against two of their co-religionists imprisoned in Mashhad,
northeastern Iran... FULL
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* 27 Bahais arrested in Iran
TORONTO, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Iranian authorities are reported to have arrested
at least 27 Bahais, in the latest crackdown against the largest religious
minority group in that country. Gerald Filson, a spokesman for the Bahai
Community of Canada, says word of the crackdown filtered down today to
members of the community in other parts of the Middle East ... FULL TEXT
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* Iran suspends pro-Khatami weekly newspaper
TEHRAN, Oct 1 (AFP) - Iranian authorities have
temporarily closed an Islamic leftist newspaper, accusing it of publishing
lies and acting against national security, another newspaper reported Thursday.
Navid-e-Esfahan, a weekly newspaper published in the central city of Esfahan,
was accused of "acting against the country's security, publishing
lies and disturbing public opinion as well as promoting opposition groups,"
Salam newspaper reported... FULL
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* Khatami inaugurates 24th Tehran trade fair
TEHRAN, oct. 1, (IRNA) - president mohammad khatami inaugurated the
24th tehran international trade fair here thursday. in his opening speech,
the president underlined the fact that commercial and industrial relations
were very important factors for establishment of peace and stability in
today's world ... FULL
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Wednesday
Sept 30, 1998
* Iran stages mock attacks near Afghan border
TEHRAN, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Iranian forces staged
mock attacks close to the border with Afghanistan on Wednesday in preparation
for war games involving 200,000 troops. But there was no word on the start
of the Zolfaqar-2 manoeuvres, which Iran said on Saturday would begin ``within
seven days.'' ... FULL
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* "Servants" party disymayed
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - The "Servants of Development"
Party has expressed its disappointment at the Council of Guardians for
rejecting 250 candidates for the Assembly of Experts, most of them Khatami
supporters... FULL
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* Soccer fans damage/destroy 150 buses
TEHRAN (Hamshahri) - Last week angry soccer fans
in Tehran attacked public buses at Azadi Stadium damaging or destroying
150 0f them. A special report ... FULL
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* Afghan-Iran standoff hits border trade
QUETTA, Pakistan, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The military
standoff between Iran and Afghanistan's Taleban Islamic militia has caused
a suspension of border trade between the two countries for the last month
and a half, trade sources said. Traders in Quetta, capital of Pakistan's
Baluchistan province, said the Taleban were losing thousands of dollars
each day due to lost trade at the border with Iran where Tehran has massed
more than 270,000 troops for military exercises... FULL
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Tuesday
Sept 29, 1998
* Nearly 250 candidates rejected for Assembly of Experts election
TEHRAN, Sept 29 (AFP) - Nearly 150 candidates have been cleared to take
part in next month's elections for a new Assembly of Experts, a cleric-controlled
body which chooses Iran's supreme leader, the interior ministry announced.
It rejected 247 candidates, most of them close to moderate President Mohammad
Khatami ... FULL
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* Baha'i death sentences in Iran
Paris, Sept 29, (Reuters) - The organisation representing members of
the Baha'i faith in Britain says the Iranian Supreme Court has confirmed
death sentences on two more Baha'is in Iran. A statement released in London
says Sirius Dhabihi-Muqaddam and Hedayat Kashefi-Najafabadi had been condemned
for their involvement in religious meetings known as Family Life gatherings
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* Mohajerani says he ''won't back down ''
TEHRAN, Sept. 29, (IRNA) - minister of culture and islamic guidance
ataollah mohajerani here on tuesday said that the ministry does not intend
to alter its past policies towards the press. mohajerani was speaking to
the reporters after he had attended the behind-closed-door session of majlis,
answering deputies questions on the press. ''i said that we won't back
down from our principle of defending legitimate freedoms, and that if i
spoke of limiting the freedom, that was only an aberration and not a norm.
''the norm is granting (the press) freedoms stipulated in the article 29
of the constitution.'' ... FULL
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* Albright urges patience toward Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It will take time and patience to establish good
relations with Iran, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Tuesday
in a low-keyed response to a tough declaration by the foreign minister
of the country's Islamic fundamentalist government. ``We are ready to engage
in a process in which each side is able to address the other's concerns,''
Albright said at a news conference... FULL
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Monday
Sept 28, 1998
* Kharrazi calls for change in U.S. policy
NEW YORK, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The United States must change its behaviour
toward Iran, including lifting sanctions that harm the country's economic
development, if it wants a serious political dialogue with the government
in Tehran, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said on Monday ... FULL
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* "Tous" and "Jaameh-ye Saalem" banned
September 29, 1998 (BBC) - Iranian television says a Tehran court has
banned two publications for insulting the country's late spiritual leader,
Ayatollah Khomeini. The court revoked the publishing licenses of the Iranian
daily "Tous" and the monthly "Jameah-e Salam"... FULL
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* Rafsanjani's daughter on trial over press charges
TEHRAN, Sept 28 (AFP) -Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former Iranian
president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, appeared before a court on Monday,
accused of "lies" in her newspaper, witnesses said... FULL TEXT
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* Iran signals may sweeten foreign oil terms
LONDON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Iran is signalling it may soften terms unpopular
with foreign firms chasing oil and gas exploration ventures offered by
the Persian Gulf giant, industry sources say... FULL
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