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* Fraud charges mar final stage of Iran polls
* U.S. senate targets Russian aid to Iran
* Albright renews Iran talks offer
* Iran radio says reformist victory will not shape U.S. ties
* Khatami invited to visit Jordan
* One dead, 11 hurt in alleged attack by elite troops
* Tehran police face court martial next week
* Iranians study election results
* European leaders rush to Iran in wake of elections
* Kharrazi: Iran will be more liberal
* Khamenei pardons student
* Reformist Nuri returns to prison after three-day leave
* Triumphant reformers set out programme
* Hardliner accepts defeat
* Post-election unrest leaves three more dead
* New deputies are men and women in a hurry
* U.S. discusses way to reward Iran
* US weighs 'appropriate' responses to Iranian election
* Senate may sanction Iran suppliers
* Tehran joyous but calm as reformers romp to victory
* Iran upholds death sentence on student leader in riots
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* Abdollah Nuri hails landslide victory in Iran
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Friday
February 25, 2000

* Iran's former president promises to respect vote

TEHRAN, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, his political fate in the balance amid a dispute over election returns, pledged on Friday to respect the result of the vote. Rafsanjani, standard-bearer for the establishment in polls largely swept by reformers close to President Mohammad Khatami, was clinging to one of the last of Tehran's 30 seats yet to declare, according to one unofficial count >>> FULL TEXT

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* Rafsanjani cautions winners

TEHRAN, Iran ­­ With reformists sweeping last week's parliamentary elections, former President Hashemi Rafsanjani today cautioned the winners against sidelining the losers. In a sermon at the main weekly prayer in Tehran, Rafsanjani said the Feb. 18 parliamentary polls were "significant and healthy." >>> FULL TEXT

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* Rafsanjani slams United States

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A top Iranian official slammed the United States during a sermon Friday for professing a desire for improved ties while pushing legislation to punish countries that help Iran's arms program. ``On the one hand they express willingness to have relations with Iran, and on the other they pass laws which seek to punish countries helping Iran with its weapons program,'' ex-President Hashemi Rafsanjani said at the sermon at Tehran University >>> FULL TEXT

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* Moscow blasts Senate's Iran nuclear bill

MOSCOW, Feb 25 (AFP) - Russia slammed the US Senate on Friday for trying to punish countries that it considered were aiding Iranian weapons programmes, saying the "hypocritical" legislation would harm Russo-US relations. In a harshly-worded statement, the Russian foreign ministry described as "unacceptable" the Senate bill, which seeks to slap sanctions on countries deemed to be aiding Iran's efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction >>> FULL TEXT

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* U.S. State Department human report on Iran

February 25, 2000 (U.S. State Department) -- The [Iranian] government's human rights record remained poor; although efforts within society to make the Government accountable for its human rights policies intensified, serious problems remain. The Government restricts citizens' right to change their government. Systematic abuses include extrajudicial killings and summary executions; disappearances; widespread use of torture and >>> FULL TEXT

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Thursday
February 17, 2000

* Fraud charges mar final stage of Iran polls

TEHRAN, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Iranian officials on Thursday delayed releasing final poll results for Tehran amid allegations of vote-rigging in a tight race for the last of the capital's 30 parliamentary seats. Officials told Reuters they were investigating charges that 100 ballot boxes were stuffed with fraudulent votes. Another 100 boxes had yet to be counted out of a total of 3,111 across the city, they said >>> FULL TEXT

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* U.S. senate targets Russian aid to Iran

WASHINGTON ­­ Following suit with the House, the Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to step up efforts to stop Russia and other countries from supplying Iran with weapons of mass destruction. Supporters said the bill was necessary despite the ascendance of reformers in the Tehran government. "Fresh breezes of change are blowing through Iran," said Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn. But he said those changes have not reached the highest levels of government "who unfortunately have made Iran a pariah state." >>> FULL TEXT

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* Albright renews Iran talks offer

WASHINGTON ­­ Secretary of State Madeleine Albright today renewed an offer to talk directly to Iran about U.S. concerns with Iranian policies. At a news conference, Albright also said the United States would watch very carefully how the Iranian government responds to the large turnout of voters last Friday "and the message that it sends from the Iranian people that they want some change." >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran radio says reformist victory will not shape U.S. ties

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran radio warned arch-foe the United States Thursday there would be no concessions from Tehran following a big reformist victory in last week's parliamentary polls. In a commentary, state radio said the nation was united in its demands for practical steps by Washington to break the diplomatic freeze between the two former allies >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khatami invited to visit Jordan

TEHRAN, Feb 24 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has been officially invited by King Abdullah II to visit Jordan, the IRNA agency reported Thursday >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
February 23, 2000

* One dead, 11 hurt in alleged attack by elite troops on air base

TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Armed attackers alleged to be from the elite Revolutionary Guards killed one airman and wounded 11 in an assault on Iran's biggest air base at Shiraz, the Iranian daily Sobh-e emruz reported Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Tehran police face court martial next week over bloody unrest

TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Tehran's sacked police chief and 19 other officers face public court martial next week over the violent suppression of a student demonstration last July, Tehran University said Wednesday. In an official statement quoted by the official news agency IRNA the university said the first hearing against Farhad Nazari and his colleagues in open session would be held Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iranians study election results

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian conservatives blamed themselves and ``a wave of lies'' in the press for their stunning defeat at the hands of reformists in Iran's legislative elections. Conservatives also conceded that their policies had failed after it became clear that the reformist coalition would win the elections, ousting them from the legislature after a 21-year domination >>> FULL TEXT

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* European leaders rush to Iran in wake of elections

TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - European foreign ministers are rushing to Tehran in the wake of the sweeping election victory of reformists in last weekend's parliamentary elections, with Italy and Germany leading the pack and Britain not far behind. The Italian foreign ministry said Wednesday that Lamberto Dini will pay an official visit to Tehran March 4-6, the first by a European Union minister since Friday's polls >>> FULL TEXT

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* Kharrazi: Iran will be more liberal

TEHRAN, Iran ­­ Iran's foreign policy will become more liberal following last week's defeat of hard-liners in parliamentary elections, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Wednesday. "The positive actions of other countries will receive positive reaction from the Islamic Republic of Iran," he was quoted as saying by state television >>> FULL TEXT

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* Khamenei pardons students jailed for "blasphemous" play

TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pardoned two students jailed for publishing an allegedly blasphemous play in a university magazine, press reports said Monday >>> FULL TEXT

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Reformist Nuri returns to prison after three-day leave

TEHRAN, Feb 23 (AFP) - Former Iranian interior minister and leading reformist Abdullah Nuri, who is serving a five-year sentence for "anti-Islamic propaganda", returned to prison Wednesday after three days leave. Nuri, an influential reformist figure, was freed on Sunday from north Tehran's notorious Evin prison for a three-day home leave >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
February 22, 2000

* Triumphant reformers set out programme for more open Iran

TEHRAN, Feb 22 (AFP) - Hot on the heels of their landslide victory in parliamentary elections, Iran's reformers Tuesday set out their programme for a more open society, vowing to open up to the foreign media and even the long-hated United States. Emboldened by their capture of parliament, long a bastion of their conservative opponents, the reformers also pledged to end a five-year-old ban on satellite dishes aimed at shutting out the foreign media >>> FULL TEXT

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* Hardliner accepts defeat

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A top hard-line ideologue has accepted defeat in Iran's parliamentary elections, saying in a report today that his camp will have to reconsider its policies. An influential reformer, meanwhile, has said talks with the United States would not be a ``sin.'' Talks with the United States, a more liberal press and increased personal freedoms are expected to be among the issues discussed in the next Parliament, or Majlis, which will be seated in June >>> FULL TEXT

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* Post-election unrest leaves three more dead, two wounded

TEHRAN, Feb 22 (AFP) - Post-election unrest has left three more dead, including one child, and two injured, across Iran, the evening daily newspaper Kayhan said Tuesday. Two people were killed and two others injured in the first incident when a coach hired by supporters of one candidate passed through a village near the southern city of Lordeghan where the locals supported a rival candidate, the paper said >>> FULL TEXT

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* New deputies are men and women in a hurry

TEHRAN, Feb 22 (AFP) - Iran's new reformist deputies who will enter the next parliament en masse following their sweeping election victory are men and women in a hurry to change Iranian society, but not the fundamental principles of the Islamic republic. The main reformist party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) and its allies are set to hold three-quarters of the 290 seats or more in the new assembly, having smashed the outgoing conservative majority >>> FULL TEXT

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* U.S. discusses way to reward Iran

WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration is weighing how to show its pleasure at the resounding defeat in Iran's parliamentary elections of candidates who demonized the United States. State Department spokesman James Rubin called the preliminary results, which gave reformers more than 70% of decided seats, ''historic'' and a triumph for those advocating ''openness and engagement with the rest of the world.'' >>> FULL TEXT

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* US weighs 'appropriate' responses to Iranian election

WASHINGTON, Feb 22 (AFP) - The United States said Tuesday it was weighing "appropriate" responses to the overwhelming victory by reformers in Iran's parliamentary election last week. But State Department spokesman James Rubin cautioned that conciliatory steps would not come immediately as it would take time before reformers could make their presence felt and affect policy >>> FULL TEXT

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* Senate may sanction Iran suppliers

WASHINGTON (AP) - Brushing aside opposition from the administration, the Senate is moving to compel the president to be more aggressive in tracking Russia and other countries that supply weapons materiel to Iran. The bill, taken up by the Senate Tuesday, also could restrict payments to Russia in connection with the International Space Station. The bill is expected to win the Senate's overwhelming approval when it votes Thursday, much as similar legislation sailed through the House last September, 419-0 >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
February 21, 2000

* Tehran joyous but calm as reformers romp to victory

TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - By previous standards of celebration, Tehran residents have been relatively subdued as Iranian reformers romped to victory at the polls, but no less joyous. When President Mohammad Khatami was elected in 1997, "it was so unexpected, we danced. When Iran beat the United States (in the 1998 World Cup), there was an explosion of fierce national pride. We were a reborn country," said 35-year-old draughtsman Iradj Tabei >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran upholds death sentence on student leader in riots

TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - Iran's courts have upheld the death sentence on a student leader found guilty of instigating deadly riots in Tehran last year, a newspaper reported Monday. The courts upheld the sentence against Akbar Mohammadi, one of three students sentenced to die for their role in July's disturbances, the Asr-e-Azadegan paper said.

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* Reformers win the battle, but voters say: show us the money

TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - All the votes have yet to be counted but Iranian reformers are quickly learning one of the oldest lessons of democracy in the book: the people don't stay happy for too long. Reformists backing President Mohammad Khatami haven't even got the final results of their upset win in Friday's parliamentary polls and already voters doubt whether Iran's ailing economy can be turned around >>> FULL TEXT

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* Abdollah Nuri hails landslide victory in Iran

TEHRAN, Feb 21 (AFP) - The landslide victory of Iranian reformers in last week's parliamentary elections will save the Islamic regime, their jailed standard-bearer, former interior minister Abdollah Nuri, said Monday. "These results guarantee the future of the regime and allow us to make progress in realising the regime's objectives on a more solid footing," Nuri told reporters outside his Tehran home where he is on prison leave >>> FULL TEXT

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* US welcomes "historic" Iranian vote showing support for greater freedom

WASHINGTON, Feb 21 (AFP) - The United States on Monday welcomed results of the Iranian vote showing the people "overwhelmingly" support greater freedom and openness. "The results are of course not final but all indications are that this election is an event of historic proportions," US State Department spokesman James Rubin said in a statement >>> FULL TEXT

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* European countries hail Iran election results

Feb 21 (AFP) - European countries Monday hailed the sweeping victory of reformist candidates in elections to the Tehran parliament as a positive step in Iran's development, but reactions from its Arab neighbours were conspicuous by their absence. Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, speaking on behalf of the European Union, said: "There is of course still a long road ahead in Iran, but the signals sent by Iranian voters clearly justify the reform path.">>> FULL TEXT

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