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Oct 26-30, 1998 / Aban 4-8, 1377

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Today

* Khamanei blasts Arafat over Mideast deal
* Palestinians slam Iran over attack on Arafat
* U.S. begins broadcasts to Iran
* Ukraine holds to decision against Iran turbine sale
* Iranian exiles in UK court battle over charity

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* U.S. condemns arrests in Iran
* Tehran to celebrate 1,000th Friday prayers since revolution
* Rumor: Postponing local council elections
* Tehran, Bonn in contact over prisoners: MP
* Kyrgyz to return intercepted arms cargo to Iran
* Rial freefalls on open market
* Rial stabilization policy will continue

* Egypt Upgrades Diplomacy in Iran
* Wooing foreign investors
* Central Bank wants end to fixed rial rate
* Khatami tries to push Iran reforms
* U.S. rights group backs jailed Iran cleric
* Iran plans Afghan border war games
* Local council elections in February
* Clerics ride political machine to victory
* Conservatives 49, Moderates/independents 37
* Iran calls U.S.-funded Farsi radio ``interference''
* Khatami says Iran will oppose Mideast peace deal
* Iran complains to Dutch over opposition protest
* Hijacker sentenced to 10 years in Jail

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Friday
Oct 30, 1998

* Khamanei blasts Arafat over Mideast deal

TEHRAN, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned the latest Israeli-Palestinian peace accord, using the 1,000th gathering of Friday prayers in Tehran to single out Palestinian President Yasser Arafat for a stinging personal rebuke. Khamenei, appearing before an overflow crowd of Moslem worshippers and dignitaries at Tehran University, branded Arafat a ``lackey'' of Israel and challenged his legitimacy as leader of the Palestinian people... FULL TEXT

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* Palestinians slam Iran over attack on Arafat

JERUSALEM, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority sharply condemned Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Friday for attacking Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's authority to sign his latest peace deal with Israel. ``The statements of Khamenei are baseless, irresponsible and lack credibility,'' the Palestinian official news agency WAFA quoted Tayyeb Abdel-Rahim, General Secretary of the Palestinian Presidency, as saying... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. begins broadcasts to Iran

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The United States Friday began radio broadcasts to Iran and Iraq, programming that is extremely controversial in both Tehran and Baghdad. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty announced that Radio Free Iraq, which broadcasts in Arabic, and the Farsi Service to Iran went on air as scheduled at 11 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) for half an hour in each language... FULL TEXT

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* Ukraine holds to decision against Iran turbine sale

KIEV, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma said on Friday Ukraine will not go back on its decision to opt out of a Russian-Iranian deal to build a nuclear power plant in the Gulf port of Bushehr. ``We have already approved a final decision (to decline participation) and we are not going to change it,'' Kuchma told journalists at the official opening of a new research institute outside Kiev... FULL TEXT

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* Iranian exiles in UK court battle over charity

LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - A group of Iranian exiles won the first round of a legal battle on Friday to stop the receiver of a charity from removing from its headquarters documents they feared could help Tehran identify its supporters. But despite the victory in London's High Court, they vowed to continue a three-day sit-in at the offices of British-based Iran Aid in Finchley, north London... FULL TEXT

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Thursday
Oct 29, 1998

* U.S. condemns arrests in Iran

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department accused Iran of persecuting members of the Baha'i faith and urged that death sentences against six Baha'i prisoners be set aside. More than 500 homes and office buildings owned or rented by Iranian Baha'is have been raided and at least 36 faculty members from a Baha'i institute arrested, deputy spokesman James Foley said Thursday... FULL TEXT

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* Tehran to celebrate 1,000th Friday prayers since revolution

TEHRAN, Oct 29 (AFP) -Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will personally lead weekly mass prayers in Tehran on Friday to mark the thousandth such ceremonies here since the 1979 Islamic revolution, the news media announced Thursday. Communal prayers have been held every Friday throughout Iran since the revolution, led by clerics representing Khamenei, who is the top political and religious authority in Iran... FULL TEXT

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* Rumor: Postponing local council elections

Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - There is talk among right-wing members of the Majlis to postpone local council elections for a year in order to find a way to prevent moderates from gaining control. The election has been planned for next February ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Tehran, Bonn in contact over prisoners: MP

TEHRAN, Oct 29 (AFP) -Tehran and Bonn are in contact over the fates of a German condemned to death here and an Iranian jailed in Germany, an Iranian MP said Thursday. "The two countries are having contacts over the these issues. It is natural for each country to be interested in the problems of its citizens, although we must not forget that Hofer's case is not political," said Mohammad Alavi, a member of the parliament's foreign policy commission ... FULL TEXT

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* Kyrgyz to return intercepted arms cargo to Iran

BISHKEK, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan, which intercepted an Iranian train with ammunition bound for Afghanistan's anti-Taleban opposition earlier this month, will send the lethal cargo back to Iran soon, Kyrgyz officials said on Thursday. ``A political decision to send the train back has been taken,'' Askar Aitmatov, a foreign policy department chief in the presidential administration, told Reuters. ``Relevant ministries are now preparing the train for the departure.'' ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
Oct 21, 1998

* Rial freefalls on open market

TEHRAN, Oct 28 (AFP) - The Iranian currency dropped sharply in value this week on the open market after months of steady decline, but the central bank pledged Wednesday to maintain a freeze on the rate of the rial against major foreign currencies. The rial fell from 6,200 to the dollar at the start of the week to nearly 6,700 on Wednesday after hints from the central bank early in the week that it may allow the currency to freely float against major currencies... FULL TEXT

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* Rial stabilization policy will continue

Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - The Central Bank has issued a statement saying its rial stabilization policy will continue through 1378 (March 2000) as planned ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Egypt Upgrades Diplomacy in Iran

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Egypt has upgraded its diplomatic mission in Iran in a sign of thawing ties, Egyptian and Iranian diplomats said Wednesday. Egypt and Iran severed ties after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Egypt maintains an interests section in Tehran, which works from the Italian Embassy... FULL TEXT

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* Wooing foreign investors

Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Government plans for attracting $7.5 billion in foreign investment ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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Tuesday
Oct 20, 1998

* Central Bank wants end to fixed rial rate

TEHRAN, Oct 27 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian Central Bank official called in remarks published on Tuesday for dropping fixed rial exchange rates, saying this would make the economy more resilient to shocks such as a slump in oil prices. ``The fixed currency system has outlived its use...and cannot be effective anymore,'' the daily Hamshahri quoted Central Bank Deputy Governor Mohammad Jafar Mojarrad as saying... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami tries to push Iran reforms

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Outfoxed in a national vote for a powerful clerical assembly, allies of Iran's moderate president are now turning to upcoming city and town elections to try to push forward his reforms. Supporters of President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday that because a hard-line council will not have to approve candidates -- as it did in last week's balloting -- moderates will stand a better chance in the elections in Iran's 10,000 municipalities... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. rights group backs jailed Iran cleric

DUBAI, Oct 27 (Reuters) - A U.S. human rights group expressed support for a Shi'ite Moslem cleric jailed in Iran after he published articles supporting women's rights. The New York-based Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, in a statement received by Reuters on Tuesday, urged lawyers to write on behalf of Mohsen Saeidzadeh to Iranian head of judiciary Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi and Iran's envoy to the United Nations ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran plans Afghan border war games

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran will stage major military exercises on its border with Afghanistan next week. About 200,000 troops from the Iranian army, air force and navy will take part in the war games, the commander of ground forces, Brig. Gen. Abdolali Pourshasd, was quoted as saying Tuesday by state-run Tehran radio... FULL TEXT

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Monday
Oct 26, 1998

* Local council elections in February

TEHRAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Iran will in February hold its first municipal elections since the 1979 Islamic revolution, setting the stage for the next face-off between conservatives and backers of reformist President Mohammad Khatami. Pro-Khatami Islamic leftists, who control the Interior Ministry, have been strong advocates of the councils which they see as a manifestation of Islamic democracy... FULL TEXT

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* Clerics ride political machine to victory

TEHRAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Iran's conservative clerics swept to an election victory worthy of any big-city political machine, but such organisational muscle may prove of little value in the battle with reformist President Mohammad Khatami. Say analysts, the results will provide little real comfort to the establishment, which had hoped to dent the ``people power'' movement that saw the moderate Khatami elected in a suprise landslide on May 23, 1997.... FULL TEXT

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* Conservatives 49, Moderates/independents 37

Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Break down of which factions won seats in Friday's elections... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Iran calls U.S.-funded Farsi radio ``interference''

TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Iran has branded U.S.-funded Farsi-language broadcasts being beamed into the country as ``interference'' and warned the Czech Republic about hosting the new station, the official news agency IRNA said on Sunday. ``This radio has been set up in the framework of America's $20 million fund against Iran,'' it quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Mahmoud Mohammadi as saying. ``This is considered interference in the Islamic Republic of Iran's internal affairs and is contrary to international rules.''... FULL TEXT

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* Khatami says Iran will oppose Mideast peace deal

TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Iran will oppose the latest Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, President Mohammad Khatami said on Sunday, branding the accord a violation of Arab rights. ``We believe...this accord will not bring the region nearer to peace, and that it is detrimental to the Palestinian people and independent Arab states, whose interests are threatened by the Zionist enemy (Israel),'' Tehran radio quoted Khatami as saying... FULL TEXT

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* Iran complains to Dutch over opposition protest

TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Tehran on Sunday lodged a formal protest with the Netherlands over the disruption by Iranian opposition demonstrators of a speech by a prominent Iranian parliamentarian in a Dutch city last week The daughter of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Faezeh Hashemi, had to cancel a scheduled speech at the opening of an Islamic institute on Tuesday after protesters invaded the auditorium. A handful of Iranian demonstrators entered the hall, police said. Another 250 shouted slogans outside the auditorium, part of Leiden University, as Hashemi arrived... FULL TEXT

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* Hijacker sentenced to 10 years in Jail

TEHRAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - An Iranian court sentenced to 10 years in jail an Iranian man who had tried to hijack a domestic flight to Iraq or Israel, a newspaper reported on Monday. ``Based on outright confessions by the defendant, the court sentenced him to 10 years on charges of acting against national security,'' the daily Iran quoted a judiciary official as saying. Gholam Haqiqat, 31, had tried last October to hijack an Iran Air plane flying from Tehran to the Gulf port of Bandar Abbas and take it to Iraq or Israel... FULL TEXT

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