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Sept 22-25, 1998 / Shahrivar 31 - Mehr 3, 1377

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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
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IRNA staff calls for detained colleagues' release
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Iranian MPs want action against liberal media
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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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... FULL TEXT

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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... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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,"... FULL TEXT

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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... FULL TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 TEXT

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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 ... FULL TEXT

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Monday
Sept 21, 1998

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