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Friday
July 21, 2000
Mohammad Reza Khatami to head reform party
July 21, 2000 (BBC) -- Iran's largest political force, the pro-reform
Islamic Iran Participation Front, has elected President Mohammad Khatami's
younger brother as its leader. Mohammad Reza Khatami was chosen by the
party's central council at its first congress in Tehran. The party issued
a statement saying it would continue to push for reform regardless of the
pressures it faced. The council had originally chosen a close advisor of
the president, Saeed Hajjarian, who recently survived an assassination
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Putin's special envoy for the Caspian to visit Iran
MOSCOW, July 20 (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's special enovy
on Caspian affairs will make a two-day visit to Iran at the end of the
month, the Russian foreign ministry announced Thursday. Viktor Kalyuzhny,
who is also Russia's deputy foreign minister, will be in Tehran July 31
and August 1, but no details were given of his programms >>>
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* Mohammad Reza Khatami to head reform
party
* Putin's special envoy for the Caspian to visit Iran
* Reformers aim to change political climate
* Iran challenges Baghdad's figure of 29,000 Iraqi POWs
* President Khatami could run for second term: brother
* Turkey expresses worry over Iran's missile test
* With canine help, police seize 1,500 kilo of morphine
* Iran defends its missile test, lashes out against US,
Israel
* Cohen warns Iran could accelerate missile development
* China denies helping Iran develop missile technology
* Qatari emir meets with Khamenei and foreign minister
* MKO claim attack on Revolutionary Guards in south Iran
* Blasts in north-east Tehran damage houses: radio
* U.S. says Iran missile test no surprise
* Qatari emir arrives in Tehran
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Thursday
July 20, 2000
Reformers aim to change political climate
TEHRAN, July 20 (AFP) - Reformers in Iran close to President Mohammad
Khatami served notice on the country's conservatives Thursday that they
will not take attacks on them lying down. "We must change the political
climate in the country, which is why the various reformist parties and
other groups must adopt a new strategy," Mohammad-Reza Khatami, head
of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) and President Khatami's
brother told a congress of the Front here >>>
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Iran challenges Baghdad's figure of 29,000 Iraqi POWs in Iran
TEHRAN, July 20 (AFP) - Tehran is contesting Baghdad's assertion that
29,000 Iraqi prisoners of war remain in Iran, the government newspaper
Iran said Thursday. "Iraqi officials should take into account the
number of freed prisoners when they make their estimates," said Mohammad
Balar, a spokesman for the government's commission for prisoners of war
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Wednesday
July 19, 2000
President Khatami could run for second term: brother
TEHRAN, July 19 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami could run
for a second term in presidential polls scheduled for next year, his brother,
deputy parliamentary speaker Mohammad-Reza Khatami, said Tuesday. "We
think that the president will stand because until now he has not announced
his intention not to," his brother told the official IRNA news agency
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Turkey expresses worry over Iran's missile test
ANKARA, July 19 (AFP) - Turkey said Wednesday the latest missile test
by its eastern neighbour Iran was a cause of concern considering the high
risk of arms proliferation in the region. "The armament efforts by
some neighbouring countries is worrying," foreign ministry spokesman
Huseyin Dirioz told a news conference here >>>
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With canine help, police seize 1,500 kilograms of morphine
TEHRAN, July 19 (AFP) - Drug-sniffing dogs helped police discover 1,500
kilograms (3,300 pounds) of morphine in Tehran and the notheastern Iranian
city of Mianeh over the past several days, Tehran's police chief Mohsen
Ansari said Wednesday. The dogs discovered 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds)
of morphine in Mianeh on a truck headed for Turkey, leading police to arrest
six men who confessed to hiding another 500 kilograms (1,100 pounds) in
Tehran, he said >>>
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Tuesday
July 18, 2000
Iran defends its missile test, lashes out against US, Israel
TEHRAN, July 18 (AFP) - Reactions by the United States and Israel to
Iran's successful test of its Shahab-3 surface-to-surface missile Saturday
are "a propaganda campaign doomed to failure," the official IRNA
news agency reported Tuesday. "How is it that Israel is allowed to
be equipped with all kinds of offensive armament, including weapons of
mass destruction, but regional countries are not permitted to possess defensive
weapons?" the agency quoted Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi as saying
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Cohen warns Iran may be able to accelerate missile development
HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii, July 17 (AFP) - US Defense Secretary
William Cohen warned Monday of the risk of an accelerated pace of missile
development by Iran in the wake of its successful Shahab 3 missile test.
"I think any time you have success in a particular missile system,
it gives you confidence to move forward with more tests with greater capability,"
Cohen said >>>
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China denies helping Iran develop missile technology
BEIJING, July 18 (AFP) - China on Tuesday denied it helped Iran develop
missile technology, dismissing reports on the issue as "baseless."
A foreign ministry spokesman reacted to a report that Iran is developing
missile technology based on Chinese designs at a factory bought from China
two years ago >>>
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Qatari emir meets with Khamenei and foreign minister
TEHRAN, July 18 (AFP) - Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani
discuseed bilateral bilateral relations with Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah
Seyed Ali Khamenei and Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi Tuesday, the official
IRNA news agency reported. In their meeting, Khamenei spoke of good neighborly
relations between Iran and Qatar and underlined the necessity to develop
Tehran-Doha relations and not to trust Westerners, IRNA reported >>> FULL TEXT
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MKO claim attack on Revolutionary Guards in south Iran
PARIS, July 18 (AFP) - Iran's armed opposition movement, the People's
Mujahedeen, said they carried out a mortar attack late Monday on a position
of the Revolutionary Guards near Ahwaz in southern Iran. The movement said
the Karbala Garrison northeast of Ahwaz housed the general command headquarters
of the Revolutionary Guards in southern Iran and the command HQ of the
Guards' 7th Vali-Asr Division >>>
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Monday
July 17, 2000
Blasts in north-east Tehran damage houses: radio
TEHRAN, July 16 (AFP) - Several homes were damaged in violent explosions
which rocked a Tehran district that houses the intelligence ministry late
Saturday, Iranian state radio reported Sunday. Some 12 explosions shook
the north-east of Tehran Saturday evening, the radio said, but no details
were given on what caused the blasts or on any casualties >>>
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U.S. says Iran missile test no surprise
HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary William
Cohen on Monday said Iran's test of a medium-range missile was no surprise
and only confirmed it aimed to develop longer-range missiles -- a factor
playing a role in the proposed U.S. missile defense system. Iran said on
Saturday it had successfully tested the Shahab-3 missile, which is modeled
mainly on North Korea's Nodong-1 and improved with Russian technology >>>
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Qatari emir arrives in Tehran
TEHRAN, July 17 (AFP) - Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani
arrived in Tehran Monday for an official three-day visit, the first by
a Qatari head of state since the 1979 Islamic revolution. The emir will
be welcomed by President Mohammad Khatami at the Saad-Abad palace, the
former imperial palace of Iran's ousted late Shah >>>
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