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Sept 8-11, 1998 / Shahrivar 17-20, 1377

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* Iran ups pressure on Taleban over diplomats
* UN Security Council condemns Iranian diplomat killings
* Iran says two diplomats survived Taleban attack

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* Three-day mourning for slain diplomats
* Iran in new war games as Afghan tensions boil
* Iran sending more troops to Afghan border - report
* Afghan concerns unite rivals Turkey and Iran
* U.S. anthem gets first playing in Iran since 1979
* Khatami pledges peaceful solution to Afghan crisis
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Iran Steps Up Pressure On Taleban Over Diplomats
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Iran police kill drug smugglers near Afghan border
* Iran says will use all means in Afghan dispute
* U.S. warns Iran against attack on Afghanistan
* Attackers "arrested"
* Khatami says security forces subject to law

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Friday,
Sept 11, 1998

* Iran ups pressure on Taleban over diplomats

TEHRAN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Iran stepped up pressure on Afghanistan's Taleban militia on Friday with Revolutionary Guards vowing to avenge the killing of Iranian diplomats if those responsible were not brought to justice. The threat came as Shi'ite Moslems in the opposition-held central Afghan city of Bamiyan prepared to fight approaching forces of the purist Islamic Taleban rather than face what they say would be ethnic slaughter... FULL TEXT

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* UN Security Council condemns Iranian diplomat killings

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 10 (AFP) - The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned the killing in Afghanistan of nine Iranian diplomats, and called for an urgent investigation. Responding swiftly to a telephone call from Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi to council president Hans Dahlgren and a letter from the Iranian ambassador, the council members also urged "maximum restraint" by all parties. In a statement read to reporters after a closed-door briefing on the latest developments by a senior UN official, Dahlgren said the council members "condemn these heinous acts and violations of international law ... FULL TEXT

* Iran says two diplomats survived Taleban attack

TEHRAN, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Iran said on Friday two of its diplomats had survived an attack by Afghan Taleban fighters last month in which nine other Iranians were killed. ``Two of the diplomats have survived the carnage and efforts are being made to get information on their plight,'' Iranian state television quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Aminzadeh as saying. ``Based on reliable information which we have received, one of the diplomats is unhurt and the other has been injured,'' Aminzadeh said ... FULL TEXT

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Thursday
Sept 10, 1998

* Three-day mourning for slain diplomats

TEHRAN, Sept. 11, (IRNA) - the office of the leader of the islamic revolution and the supreme religious jurisprudent ayatollah seyyed ali khamenei here thursday night issued a message of condolence over the martyrdom of the iranian diplomats at the hand of afghan taliban group in mazar-i sharif and announced a 3-day mourning period ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran in new war games as Afghan tensions boil

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban militia Thursday pledged to punish some of its fighters who ``acting on their own'' killed nine Iranian diplomats, an apparent attempt to appease an angry Iran which is preparing a second round of major war games on their common border. The Sunni Moslem Taleban, which rules most of Afghanistan, said renegade Taleban guerrillas acting without orders killed the Iranians in an incident which has provoked the huge military buildup by Shi'ite Iran ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran sending more troops to Afghan border - report

TEHRAN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Iran is to send more troops to its border with Afghanistan where it has massed a 70,000-strong force in a face-off with the Taleban militia over missing Iranian diplomats, a leading newspaper reported on Thursday. ``Several army divisions will be deployed on (the) Afghan border where the Nimroz Province of Afghanistan faces Iran,'' an unnamed senior army officer was quoted as saying in the daily Tehran Times... FULL TEXT

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* Afghan concerns unite rivals Turkey and Iran

ANKARA, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Wary neighbours Turkey and Iran will at last have a political issue they can agree on when Turkish Foreign Minister Ismail Cem visits Tehran this weekend. Despite years of mutual suspicion, the Middle East's two non-Arab giants are united in mistrust of Afghanistan's Taleban militia -- albeit for entirely different reasons ... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. anthem gets first playing in Iran since 1979

TEHRAN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - ``The Star Spangled Banner'' was played in Iran on Thursday at an international wrestling meet, the first time the U.S. anthem has been publicly heard in the Islamic republic since the 1979 revolution. As the anthem was played, the American flag was raised at Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) stadium hall during a medals ceremony in which Sam Henson of the United States received the gold medal in the 54 kg category of the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships ... FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
Sept 9, 1998

* Khatami pledges peaceful solution to Afghan crisis

TEHRAN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday pledged to seek a peaceful solution to a crisis with the Afghan Taleban and said he doubted U.S. sincerity in its expressed concern. ``We cannot remain indifferent towards the lives of our citizens, and particularly our diplomats, who have been attacked and taken hostage in violation of international law,'' the moderate Shi'ite Moslem clergyman said ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran Steps Up Pressure On Taleban Over Diplomats

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran has stepped up pressure on the Afghan Taleban over the fate of Iranians caught up faction fighting, and the United States warned against military action. The latest in a series of contrasting messages by Iranian leaders warned the purist Islamic movement that rules most of neighboring Afghanistan of unspecified consequences if the missing Iranians were not released ... FULL TEXT

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* Iran police kill drug smugglers near Afghan border

TEHRAN, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Iranian police killed seven armed drug smugglers and seized more than 1.7 tonnes of drugs in two separate raids near the Afghan border, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday. It said the seven traffickers were killed in a shootout on Tuesday in an area about 180 km (110 miles) from Afghanistan, a major drug producer. Some 96 kg (211.2 lbs) of opium and four machine guns were confiscated, it said.... FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
Sept 8, 1998

* Iran says will use all means in Afghan dispute

TEHRAN, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it would use ``all possibilities'' to free Iranians held in Afghanistan and called on the Afghan Taleban Islamic movement to respond quickly ``before it is too late.'' ``The Islamic Republic of Iran will revert to making use of all possibilities to free its diplomats and citizens held in captivity by the Taleban militia,'' Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said in remarks to journalists published by the official Iranian news agency IRNA ... FULL TEXT

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* U.S. warns Iran against attack on Afghanistan

WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday expressed serious concern over the buildup of Iranian forces on Afghanistan's border and urged Tehran against military action. Instead, the State Department said Iran and Afghanistan should solve a dispute over missing Iranians in Afghanistan peacefully with United Nations mediation ... FULL TEXT

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* Attackers "arrested"

TEHRAN, (Tous) - A number of persons have been arrested in connection with last week's beating of two moderate ministers ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Khatami says security forces subject to law

TEHRAN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami said on Monday Iranian security forces were answerable to the law, calling on them to respect even dissidents' right to free speech, Tehran radio reported. ``There should be an atmosphere in society in which dissidents also have the right to express themselves,'' the radio quoted the moderate Khatami as saying at a meeting with officials of Iran's Intelligence (internal security) Ministry ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
August 31, 1998

* Women in Experts Assembly?

TEHRAN, (Hamshahri) - Majlis deputy Faezeh Hashemi has called for women's presence in the Experts Assembly, whose members will be elecled in a few weeks ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

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* Afghan Taleban seek U.N. mediation with Iran

ISLAMABAD, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taleban Islamic movement asked the United Nations on Monday to mediate between it and Iran over Tehran's complaint that the movement is holding its diplomats. ``We have no information about the Iranian diplomats,'' a Taleban spokesman told a Pakistan-based news service ... FULL TEXT

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* Afghan Taleban say Iranian exercises a threat

KABUL, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taleban movement on Monday accused neighbouring Iran of threatening behaviour for conducting military manoeuvres on its border and warned Tehran against any escalation of tensions. ``Despite the failure of...the flagrant and shameless interferences in Afghanistan by Iran, it intends to threaten Afghans by carrying out military exercises along the Afghan border under the excuse of its missing spies,'' a Taleban foreign ministry statement received by Reuters said ... FULL TEXT

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