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* Rushdie deal triumph for Iran's Khatami -analysts
* AI concerned about arrest of journalists
* Iran shows new missile for first time
* Iran warns of force if Afghan diplomacy fails
* British-Iranian ties ease path for UK oil firms
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* Rushdie: "Sounds
like it's over"
* UK, Iran raise ties after Rushdie agreement
* Russian official seeks Iran ties
* Iraq hopes ties with ex-foe Iran will improve soon
* PEN asks for release of Tous reporters
* IRNA director, editor
released
* IRNA staff calls for detained colleagues' release
* Iranian MPs want action against liberal media
* Rushdie Backers ``Cautiously Optimistic'' Over
Iran
* IRNA journalists detailed
* Saudi Arabia expels Afghan diplomat
* Iran's Khatami seeks U.S. action, not words
* U.S., Iran find common ground on Afghanistan
* Iran's parliament debates Afghan dispute
* Iranian opposition exiles
protest near U.N.
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Friday,
Sept 25 1998
* Rushdie deal triumph for Iran's Khatami -analysts
TEHRAN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The agreement between Britain and Iran over
Salman Rushdie represents a triumph for moderate President Mohammad Khatami
in his struggle with diehard veterans of the Islamic revolution for the
soul of Iran, analysts said on Friday... FULL
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* AI concerned about arrest of journalists
Sept 25 (Amnesty International) - The human rights organization is alarmed
by recent reports that four employees of the Iranian daily newspaper Tous
were arrested between the 16 and 20 September 1998. Mashallah Shamsolva'ezin,
Hamid Reza Jalaipour, Mohammad Javadi Hessar and Ibrahim Nabavi were reportedly
detained following the publication of an article questioning the policies
of the Iranian government in Afghanistan and condemning the recent military
build-up on Iran's eastern borders... FULL
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* Iran shows new missile for first time
TEHRAN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Iran on Friday showed for the first time
its latest medium-range missile, the Shehab-3, a weapon U.S. President
Bill Clinton said could change the ``stability dynamics'' of the Middle
East... FULL
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* Iran warns of force if Afghan diplomacy fails
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami said Friday Iran
would continue to work through diplomatic channels to ease tension with
Afghanistan but was ready to use force if diplomacy failed... FULL
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* British-Iranian ties ease path for UK oil firms
LONDON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Britain's resumption of full diplomatic
relations with Iran will smooth the way for British companies to compete
for business in Iran's coveted oil and gas sector, analysts said on Friday...
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Thursday
Sept 24, 1998
* Rushdie: "Sounds like it's over"
LONDON, (BBC) - Audio clip of Salman Rushdie's
reaction to Iran's announcement that it will not hurt him or support those
who have put a price on his head... LISTEN
HERE
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* UK, Iran raise ties after Rushdie agreement
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Britain and Iran sealed a landmark agreement
to restore full diplomatic relations on Thursday after Tehran formally
dissociated itself from a death edict against British writer Salman Rushdie.
British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook described the deal with Iranian Foreign
Minister Kamal Kharrazi as historic. It was reached more than nine years
after the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned
the author of ``The Satanic Verses'' to death for blaspheming Islam...
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* Russian official seeks Iran ties
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's parliamentary speaker called Thursday for greater
military cooperation with Tehran and said Russia should complete an agreement
to build a nuclear reactor in Iran, despite U.S. objections. Gennady Seleznyov,
a member of the Communist Party and speaker of parliament's lower house,
the State Duma, spoke to reporters after returning from a three-day, official
visit to Iran ... FULL
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* Iraq hopes ties with ex-foe Iran will improve soon
BAGHDAD, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Iraq said on Thursday it hoped relations
with ex-Gulf war foe Iran would strengthen soon, building on recent gestures
like a mass release of prisoners of war. ``There is a reality and there
is ambition in Iraq-Iran relations. The reality is that relations are not
up to ambitions but they will help both Iraq and Iran to do better,'' Iraqi
Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan said... FULL
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* PEN asks for release of Tous reporters
"Our letter to you today comes with a grave sense of urgency as
we are disturbed by reports that that the daily newspaper Tous was banned
on September 16, 1998, on charges that it published articles in conflict
with Iran's national interests and security. We are further perturbed to
learn of the arrest and detention of Mahmoud Shamsolvaezin, chief editor
of the newspaper, and Hamid Reza Jalaipur, director of publishing of Tous,"...
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Wednesday
Sept 23, 1998
* IRNA director, editor released
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The deputy director and an
editor of Iran's official news agency were set free on Wednesday, and the
agency said a complaint against them apparently had been withdrawn...
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* IRNA staff calls for detained colleagues'
release
TEHRAN, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Senior editors and
reporters at Iran's official IRNA news agency on Wednesday called for the
immediate and unconditional release of two arrested colleagues. Iranian
authorities on Tuesday detained IRNA's Deputy Managing Director Mohammad
Reza Sadeq and Alireza Khosravi, a chief editor, over a report on a failed
assassination attempt on the head of a powerful economic foundation, the
agency reported... FULL
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* Iranian MPs want action against liberal media
TEHRAN, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Two-thirds of deputies
in Iran's parliament on Wednesday called for journalists who write against
Islamic principles to be put on trial for threatening national security.
The official Iranian news agency IRNA said 180 of the 270 deputies, in
a letter read out in parliament, backed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's
call for action against newspapers he accused of ``abusing freedom of speech.''
``The deputies stressed in their letter that those who write against the
principles of Islam should be confronted as those working against the security
of the country,'' IRNA reported... FULL
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* Rushdie Backers ``Cautiously Optimistic''
Over Iran
LONDON (Reuters) - British supporters of Salman
Rushdie, the author with a $2.5 million bounty on his head, Wednesday reacted
cautiously to Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's statement that the Rushdie
affair was ``completely finished.'' The International Rushdie Defense Committee,
joined by Rushdie himself, met British Foreign Office officials earlier
Wednesday to discuss the apparent easing of Iran's position... FULL
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Tuesday
Sept 22, 1998
* IRNA journalists detailed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Police detained a deputy director and an editor
of Iran's official news agency Tuesday after a hard-line cleric filed a
complaint with a Tehran court. Mohammad Reza Sadeq, the deputy managing
director of the Islamic Republic News Agency, and Ali-Reza Khosravi, the
social affairs editor, were detained following Mohsen Rafiqdoust's complaint
about a Sept. 13 IRNA report ... FULL
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* Saudi Arabia expels Afghan diplomat
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia expelled the Afghan charge
d'affaires Tuesday and recalled its representative from Kabul, the official
news agency reported. The Afghan envoy was ordered to leave ``due to Saudi
Arabia's national interests,'' the Saudi Press Agency said ... FULL
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* Iran's Khatami seeks U.S. action, not words
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami challenged
the United States Tuesday to match its new conciliatory tone towards his
country with action to end sanctions and to change its Middle East policy.
In a rare news conference with Western reporters on his first visit to
New York, Khatami said Washington had not really changed its behavior or
attitude towards Iran despite President Clinton's more respectful tone
towards Islam... FULL
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* U.S., Iran find common ground on Afghanistan
NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The United States and Iran, at odds for
almost two decades, are finding some common ground on Afghanistan, where
neither nation wants to see the Taleban, an Islamic fundamentalist movement,
exercise sole control of the country. While coming at the problem from
different perspectives, Washington and Tehran have failed in their policies
toward Afghanistan, U.S. officials and analysts say ... FULL
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* Iran's parliament debates Afghan dispute
TEHRAN, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Air raid sirens wailed in Iran on Tuesday
as the country remembered eight years of war amid a tense confrontation
with the Afghan Taleban militia. The sirens sounded at the exact moment
on this day in 1980 when Iran's western neighbour Iraq launched an invasion
and attacked Iranian cities after a series of border skirmishes. Tehran
radio broadcast the sirens and assured listeners that they were being sounded
in remembrance. State television showed graphic war footage ... FULL
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* Iranian opposition exiles protest near U.N.
NEW YORK, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranian
exiles, chanting slogans and clad in bright yellow T-shirts, demonstrated
outside the United Nations on Monday as President Mohammad Khatami addressed
the U.N. General Assembly. Supporters of the National Council of Resistance
of Iran waved the red, white and green Iranian flag and carried huge orange
banners declaring that since Khatami came to power one year ago, there
had been 250 executions, seven public stonings and 28 assassinations ...
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Monday
Sept 21, 1998
(The Iranian Times was not published today)
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