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* Iran students vow to keep up protest
* Jannati says meddlers will "die trying"
* Iran cleric says meddlers will "die trying"
* Iran calls on Saudi to lift pilgrim quotas
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* Religious students protest at newspaper
cartoons
* Missing, pro-reform Iranian student leader returns
* CIA chief forecasts "unsettled" politics
in Iran
* Iran rejects CIA report
* Quake hits northern Iran, casualties reported
* Iran frees Jews charged with spying
* Conservatives concede possibility of poll defeat
* Hardliner: Iran enemies back reform
* Iran tapped Russia, China for weapons
* Khamenei says elections will be slap for US
* List of candidates
* Possible deportation from Turkey
* No certainties in Iranian election
* Thousands gather to mark anniversary of revolution
* Possible deportation from Turkey
* Israelis arrested for selling military equipment to Iran
* Iranian embassy paid for illegal arms parts
* Khatami urges huge turnout in Iranian elections
* US will closely watch Iranian election results: Albright
* Hard-liners reinvent themselves
* US will closely watch Iranian election results: Albright
* Brother-in-law of Khamenei in jail with Abdollah Nuri
* Iran trial of 13 Jews to open in next few weeks: official
* Anti-Iran extremist arrested in Ottawa
* Iranian deputy FM hurt by protesters in Switzerland
* Iran launches important military exercises on Iraq border
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Friday
February 4, 2000
* Iran students vow to keep up protest until culture minister sacked
QOM, Iran, Feb 4 (AFP) - Several hundred Iranian theology students vowed
Friday they would not end their sit-in at a mosque here until the government's
moderate pro-reform culture minister is removed from office. The students,
who began gathering at the university mosque in the holy city of Qom on
Wednesday night, are demanding the dismissal of Culture Minister Ataollah
Mohajerani over a newspaper's caricatures of one of their teachers >>> FULL
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* Jannati says meddlers will "die trying" to interfere
with election
TEHRAN, Feb 4 (AFP) - A top conservative Iranian cleric on Friday rejected
any foreign interference in this month's key parliamentary elections, saying
those who attempted to meddle with the vote would "die trying."
Ayatollah Ahmad Janati, head of a powerful supervisory council, appeared
to be reacting to recent comments by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
who said her nation would watch the results with great interest >>> FULL
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* Iran cleric says meddlers will "die trying" to interfere
with election
TEHRAN, Feb 4 (AFP) - A top conservative Iranian cleric on Friday rejected
any foreign interference in this month's key parliamentary elections, saying
those who attempted to meddle with the vote would "die trying."
Ayatollah Ahmad Janati, head of a powerful supervisory council, appeared
to be reacting to recent comments by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,
who said her nation would watch the results with great interest >>> FULL
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* Iran calls on Saudi to lift pilgrim quotas
TEHRAN, Feb 4 (AFP) - Iran on Friday called on Saudi Arabia to lift
restrictions on the number of pilgrims allowed to visit Muslim holy sites
in the kingdom each year. "We hope that these limits will be lifted
so that pilgrims can visit the sites," said Mohammad Mohammadi-Reyshari,
the Iranian official in charge of pilgrimage >>>
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Thursday
February 3, 2000
* Religious students protest at newspaper cartoons
TEHRAN, Feb 3 (AFP) - Some 1,000 Iranian theological students demonstrated
Thursday in the holy city of Qom after a reformist newspaper published
cartoons which they said ridiculed one of their teachers, press reports
said. The demonstrators marched from the theological college to the city's
main mosque, calling for the resignation of reformist Culture Minister
Ataollah Mojerani, whom they blamed for the "cultural depravity"
of the country >>>
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* Missing, pro-reform Iranian student leader returns
TEHRAN, Feb 3 (AFP) - A pro-reform Iranian student leader allegedly
kidnapped about three weeks ago has returned safe and sound, the Islamic
Association of Students that he heads said Thursday. Abbas Pazuki "who
was kidnapped by unknown individuals has been freed," the association,
based in Semnan, east of Tehran, said in a statement >>>
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* CIA chief forecasts "unsettled" politics in Iran
WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (AFP) - The political situation in Iran will remain
"unsettled" in the months leading up to the next presidential
elections in mid 2001, US Central Intelligence Agency director George Tenet
told Congress. "Even if the elections produce a Majles (parliament)
dominated by (Iranian reformist president Mohammad) Khatami's supporters,
further progress on reform will remain erratic," Tenet tols a Senate
committee Wednesday >>>
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* Iran rejects CIA report
TEHRAN, Feb 3 (AFP) - Iran on Thursday rejected a CIA report that Tehran
tried to buy technology last year to develop weapons of mass destruction
and hinted Washington was trying to influence key elections later this
month. "They accuse us but never have any proof," defense ministry
spokesman Keyvan Khosravi said, quoted by the official IRNA news agency
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* Quake hits northern Iran, casualties reported
TEHRAN, Feb 3 (AFP) - One person died and six were injured in an earthquake
in northwestern Iran early Thursday, the official IRNA news agency reported
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Wednesday
February 2, 2000
* Iran frees Jews charged with spying
TEHRAN, Iran Three of 13 Iranian Jews jailed for the past
year on accusations of spying for the United States and Israel were released
on bail Wednesday, weeks before the high-profile case is expected to go
to trial. The three were freed because the accusations against them were
less serious than those against the 10 Jews still being held, judiciary
spokesman Hossein Mir Mohammad Sadeqi told the official Islamic Republic
News Agency. Bail amounts and specific allegations were not given >>>
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* Conservatives concede possibility of poll defeat
February 2, 2000 (Financial Times) -- Prominent members of Iran's powerful
conservative coalition have started to speak openly about the prospect
of losing their parliamentary majority in elections this month, but reject
predictions of a landslide victory by reformist allies of President Mohammad
Khatami. Signals that the conservatives would accept defeat gracefully
if the February 18 vote went against them are likely to raise the spirits
of reformists, whose own coalition risks breaking apart over personality
and economic issues >>>
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* Hardliner: Iran enemies back reform
TEHRAN, Iran A leader of Iran's hard-line conservatives was
quoted Wednesday as saying that Iran's enemies want reformists to win in
crucial Feb. 18 parliamentary polls. "Western-intoxicated intellectuals
penetrated the constitutional movement under the pretext of reforms and
deviated it from it's path," outgoing Parliament Speaker Ali Akbar
Nateq Nouri was quoted as saying by Mosharekat daily >>>
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* Iran tapped Russia, China for weapons of mass destruction technology:
CIA
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (AFP) - Iran actively sought technology and equipment
for weapons of mass destruction programs last year from suppliers in Russia,
China, North Korea and western Europe, the CIA said in a report made public
Wednesday. "In doing so, Tehran is attempting to develop an indigeous
capability to produce various types of weapons -- nuclear, chemical and
biological -- and their delivery systems," said the report to Congress
by the CIA's Non-Proliferation Center >>>
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* Khamenei says elections will be slap for US
TEHRAN, Feb 2 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayataollah Ali Khamenei
called for a massive turnout in this month's general elections, predicting
their result would be a slap in the face for the United States >>> FULL TEXT
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Tuesday
February 1, 2000
* List of candidates
January 31, 2000 (Iran News) -- The leftist Majma-e Rouhaniyoun-e Mobarez
(MRM) has published its preliminary list of candidates from Tehran for
the 6th Majlis (parliament). The list has surprised a lot of political
analysts because of the diametrically opposed ideologies and beliefs of
several of the nominees. The list includes the names of MRM's own Mehdi
Karrubi, Majid Ansari, and Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, as well as Islamic Iran
Participation Front's (IIPF) Mohammad Reza Khatami and Abbas Abdi, Islamic
Revolution Mojahedin >>>
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* Possible deportation from Turkey
January 31, 2000 (International Federation of Iranian Refugees) -- On
January 26, 2000, the Turkish police accused all Iranian refugees residing
in the border town of Agri of entering Turkey legally and with passports
though they have registered with the authorities and the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as having entered without official
documents. In Turkey, those entering without passports must file their
claims within ten days at a border town nearest where they entered Turkey.
Approximately 500 Iranian refugees live in Agri >>>
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* No certainties in Iranian election
Jan 31, (BBC) -- The Islamic Republic of Iran's sixth general elections,
to be held on 18 February, provide the next battleground in the continuing
contest between reformists and conservatives within Iran's clerical regime.
While many observers expect reformist candidates to win control of the
new chamber from the right-wingers who dominated the outgoing Majlis, predictions
are mixed >>>
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* Thousands gather to mark anniversary of Iranian revolution
TEHRAN, Feb 1 (AFP) - Thousands of people gathered Tuesday at the mausoleum
of late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to launch 10 days of
celebration of the 21st anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution >>> FULL
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* Possible deportation from Turkey
January 31, 2000 (International Federation of Iranian Refugees) -- On
January 26, 2000, the Turkish police accused all Iranian refugees residing
in the border town of Agri of entering Turkey legally and with passports
though they have registered with the authorities and the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as having entered without official
documents. In Turkey, those entering without passports must file their
claims within ten days at a border town nearest where they entered Turkey.
Approximately 500 Iranian refugees live in Agri >>>
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* Two Israelis arrested for selling military equipment to Iran: TV
JERUSALEM, Feb 1 (AFP) - Two Israeli businessmen were arrested Tuesday
for allegedly selling millions of dollars of military equipment to Iran,
Israeli public television reported >>>
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* Iranian embassy paid for illegal arms parts exports to Tehran
TOKYO, Feb 1 (AFP) - The Iranian embassy in Tokyo paid for parts of
anti-tank rocket launchers illegally exported from Japan to Iran, according
to a Jiji Press news agency report Tuesday. The embassy paid about 6.1
million yen (57,000 dollars) to Sun Beam K.K., a now-defunct Japanese trading
firm charged with making the unauthorised shipments in 1995, Jiji said
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Monday
January 31, 2000
* Khatami urges huge turnout in Iranian elections
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami called
Monday for a massive turnout in next month's general elections to show
support for his government, the state news agency IRNA reported. Khatami
was speaking at a wreath-laying at the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic, in south Tehran, at the start
of 10 days of celebrations to mark the 21st anniversary of the revolution
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* US will closely watch Iranian election results: Albright
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 30 (AFP) - The United States will be closely
watching the result of next month's legislative elections in Iran to assess
the chances of rebuilding relations between the two countries, Secretary
of State Madeleine Albright said Sunday >>>
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* Hard-liners reinvent themselves
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - With only a few weeks until Iran's
legislative elections, Islamic hard-liners are trying to portray a more
moderate image to attract voters they've alienated by attacking reformers
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* US will closely watch Iranian election results: Albright
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 30 (AFP) - The United States will be closely
watching the result of next month's legislative elections in Iran to assess
the chances of rebuilding relations between the two countries, Secretary
of State Madeleine Albright said Sunday >>>
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* Brother-in-law of Khamenei in jail with Abdollah Nuri
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - A brother-in-law of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei who used to broadcast from Baghdad against the Tehran regime
is sharing a prison cell with reformist hero Abdollah Nuri, press reports
said Sunday. Sheikh Ali Tehrani, 75, was jailed last week >>>
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* Iran trial of 13 Jews to open in next few weeks: official
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - The trial of 13 Jews and eight Iranian Muslims
accused of spying for Israel and the United States will open "in the
coming weeks," judiciary spokesman Mohammed Mir-Sadeqi told AFP Monday
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* Anti-Iran extremist arrested in Ottawa
OTTAWA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - A suspected member of Mujahideen Khalq, Iran's
main armed opposition group, was arrested in Ottawa in December, a Canadian
immigration official said on Saturday. Huguette Shouldice, a spokeswoman
for Immigration Canada, confirmed a report in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper
that Mahnaz Samadi, an Iranian national believed to be in her early 40s,
was arrested following a joint investigation involving CSIS, Canada's spy
agency, and the immigration department >>>
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* Iranian deputy FM hurt by protesters in Switzerland: television
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - Opponents of the Iranian regime threw objects
at the Iranian delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
hitting a deputy foreign minister in the eye, state television reported
Sunday >>>
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* Iran launches important military exercises on Iraq border
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - Iran launched Monday the biggest military manoeuvres
on the border with Iraq since the end of their nine-year war, as attacks
by the Iraq-based armed opposition in the region have shown a marked increase
lately. The three-week exercises dubbed Zolfaqar Velayat (Sabre of the
Guide) 1 and 2 involve the use of commandos and parachutists in the two
provinces of Khuzestan and Ilam, which saw fierce fighting during the war
with Iraq >>>
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