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Friday
July 14, 2000
40,000 Afghan refugees in Iran return home
TEHRAN, July 14 (AFP) - Some 40,000 Afghan refugees in Iran have been
repatriated since the April 8 start of a programme organised by the United
Nations High Commissioner for Regugees (UNHCR), Iranian radio reported
Friday. These voluntary departures fall with the framework of an agreement
between the UNHCR and Iran on the repatriation of some 100,000 refugees
over a six-month period >>>
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* 40,000 Afghan refugees in Iran return
home
* Germany and Iran starting "new era"
* Khatami reforms a hope for regional stability
* British construction minister due to in Tehran
* Cleric shot on student unrest anniversary
* Khatami ending Germany trip
* Khatami's German visit exposed his "unpopularity"
* Iran rejects U.S. terror verdict
* Plan for private television at advanced stage: paper
* Khatami sees no improved Iran-US relations
* Iranians brave clampdown, rain for Berlin protest
* Victims' kin win against Iran
* US lawmakers protest sentencing of Iranian Jews
* Khatami starts German visit amid tight security
* Khamenei gathers rival factions together
* Arrest of head of Jewish spy ring ordered
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Thursday
July 13, 2000
Germany and Iran starting "new era" in their relations:
Khatami
TEHRAN, July 13 (AFP) - Berlin and Tehran have begun "a new era"
in their bilateral relations, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said early
Thursday at the end of a three-day trip to Germany. "My visit was
positive and important," Khatami said after his flight from from Erfurt
in eastern Germany landed here >>>
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Khatami reforms a hope for regional stability, German minister says
BERLIN, July 13 (AFP) - German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer says
the democratic reforms under Iranian President Mohammad Khatami must be
supported as they represent an opportunity for peace and regional stability.
He made the statement in an extensive interview in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung
published Thursday, the day after Khatami ended a three-day landmark visit
to Germany >>>
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British construction minister due to arrive in Tehran Friday
TEHRAN, July 13 (AFP) - British Minister for Construction Nicholas Raynsford
will arrive in Tehran Friday for a six-day visit aimed at exploring opportunities
for cooperation between the two countries, said a press release by the
British embassy in Tehran. Raynsford will be heading a delegation of major
British companies from the construction company, representing a broad range
of experience in the construction sector >>>
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Cleric shot on student unrest anniversary
TEHRAN, July 13 (AFP) - An Iranian cleric, Mohammad-Reza Bozorgi Araqi
was shot and injured by two unknown men in the early hours of Sunday morning,
following commemorations of the first anniversary of a bloody police attack
against a Tehran university dormitory, the conservative Qods paper reported
Thursday. According to the paper, Bozorgi Araqi, was shot in the stomach
shortly after midnight in front of his house >>>
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Wednesday
July 12, 2000
Khatami ending Germany trip
WEIMAR, Germany (AP) - At the end of a visit to Germany dominated by
talk of human rights, Iranian President Mohammed Khatami denied Wednesday
that religion was behind the convictions of 10 Iranian Jews found guilty
of spying for Israel. Asked at a forum with German President Johannes Rau
about whether the trial was a sign of prejudice against Iran's Jewish minority,
Khatami said his government had no control over the judiciary in Iran >>>
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Khatami's German visit exposed his unpopularity, opposition insists
BERLIN, July 12 (AFP) - The visit to Germany by Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami showed he is not popular, a spokesman for the opposition National
Council of Resistance of Iran insisted Wednesday. Behzad Naziri said that
despite the efforts of the German authorities to prevent Iranians living
in Germany and elsewhere from attending protests, 20,000 had demonstrated
against him in Berlin Monday >>>
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Iran rejects U.S. terror verdict
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran on Wednesday rejected a U.S. court verdict
that held it responsible for a terrorist bombing in Israel that killed
two Americans. ``This court, from an international legal point of view,
is not qualified to study this kind of case and the verdict is completely
political. The charges against Iran are sheer lies,'' the official Islamic
Republic News Agency quoted Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza
Asefi as saying >>>
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Plan for private television at advanced stage: paper
TEHRAN, July 12 (AFP) - Plans to establish a private television station
or an independent state channel in Iran are at an advanced stage, a reformist
paper reported Wednesday. The plan, drawn up by reformist MPs, aims to
"break the monopoly of state television," currently headed by
Ali Larijani, regarded as a "bete noire" by the reformers, the
daily Bahar said >>>
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Tuesday
July 11, 2000
Khatami sees no prospect of improved Iran-US relations
BERLIN, July 11 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday
there was no prospect of improved relations with the United States, as
he faced more hostile protests on the second day of a visit to Germany.
In an interview with German television, the president said US politicians
"have recognised their past wrongs against Iran," but had "taken
no concrete steps to make good these errors of the past." >>> FULL TEXT
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Iranians brave clampdown, rain for Berlin protest
BERLIN, July 10 (Reuters) - Several thousand Iranians demonstrated in
Berlin on Monday against a landmark visit by President Mohammad Khatami
despite special security measures by German police and incessant rain.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCR) -- the political wing
of the Iraq-based Mujahideen Khalq armed opposition -- said it expected
20,000 people at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate >>>
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Victims' kin win against Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Iran was responsible
for a terrorist bombing in Israel that killed an American couple and awarded
their relatives $327 million. The parents of Matthew Eisenfeld, 25, a rabbinical
student from West Hartford, Conn., and Sara Duker, 22, of Teaneck, N.J.,
sued Iran under a federal law that allows victims to seek damages from
nations that sponsor international terrorism >>>
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US lawmakers protest sentencing of Iranian Jews
NEW YORK, July 11 (AFP) - A group of US lawmakers from New York state
said Monday relations with Iran could not improve in the face of the recent
sentencing of 10 Iranian Jews to lengthy prison terms on espionage charges,
in a trial considered flawed by US officials. "We have to continue
to isolate (Iran) and put pressure on the international community not to
do them any favors," Democratic Representative Eliot Engel told a
crowd of about 9,000 protesters here in front of the Iranian mission to
the United Nations >>>
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Monday
July 10, 2000
Khatami starts German visit amid tight security
BERLIN, July 10 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami arrived
on Monday for a landmark visit to Germany, where his hosts took extraordinary
steps to contain protests by emigre opponents of the Islamic government.
Khatami was welcomed with full military honours at Berlin's Tegel airport
by President Johannes Rau, becoming the first Iranian leader to visit since
a turbulent trip by the late Shah in 1967, when a German student was shot
dead by police >>>
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Khamenei gathers rival factions together
TEHRAN, July 9 (AFP) - Ayatollah Ali Khameini, Iran's supreme leader,
gathered the heads of the country's reformist and conservative movements
Sunday to encourage mutual understanding, state television said. The meeting,
held at Khameini's home, included pro-reform President Mohammed Khatami
and conservative former president Akbar Hashemi- Rafsanjani, who controls
the powerful Expediency Council >>>
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Arrest of head of Jewish spy ring ordered
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has issued an arrest warrant for an Iranian
Jew, believed to be in the United States, for allegedly leading an Israeli
spy ring, 12 of whose members were jailed recently, a judicial official
said Monday. Hossein Ali Amiri, head of the judiciary in the city of Shiraz,
said the Revolutionary Court in the southern city had issued an arrest
warrant for Eshaq Belanas and would seek his extradition for allegedly
founding and leading the spy ring >>>
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