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Thursday
July 27, 2000
U.S. House passes terrorist legislation
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer, WASHINGTON (AP) - The House
on Tuesday approved a measure making it easier for terrorist victims to
collect damages from nations that foster that terrorism. American courts
have awarded former hostages and families of terrorist victims multimillion-dollar
judgments against Iran and Cuba, but the administration has so far blocked
the freeing of frozen assets to those winning the suits >>>
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Talk of re-establishing Iran-US relations an "insult":
Khamenei
TEHRAN, July 27 (AFP) - Calls for rapprochement with the United States
are an "insult" to the Iranian people, the country's spiritual
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech Thursday broadcast by Iranian
television. "In the current state of affairs, anything said in favour
of rapprochement or negotiations with America is an insult and betrayal
of the Iranian people," said Khamenei, who is on a tour of the northwest
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Shah's widow visits tomb in Cairo on 20th anniversary of his death
CAIRO, July 27 (AFP) - Farah Diba, the widow of the last shah of Iran,
visited her husband's tomb in Cairo on Wednesday for a sober ceremony to
mark the 20th anniversary of his death. Diba read the Fatiha, the first
chapter of the Muslim holy book the Koran, over the marble tomb of Muhammed
Reza Pahlavi, who died in exile in Egypt on July 27 1980, the year after
he was overthrown in Iran's Islamic Revolution.>>>
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Khamenei says failure of Camp David summit is failure of US policy
TEHRAN, July 27 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
Wednesday attributed the collapse of the Camp David peace summit to a failure
of US policy in the Middle East, state television reported. "The
failure of Camp David is not a simple event, it is the failure of American
policy in the Middle East," Khamenei said in a speech to students
in the northwest Iranian town of Meshkin-Shahr, where he has been since
Monday >>>
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Index
* U.S. House passes terrorist legislation
* Talk of re-establishing Iran-US relations an "insult":
Khamenei
* Shah's widow visits tomb in Cairo on 20th anniversary
of his death
* Khamenei says failure of Camp David summit is failure
of US policy
* Khatami seeks re-election
* Iranian, Russian FMs underline urgent need to clarify
Caspian sea legal status
* Road workers discover 3000 year-old cemetry
* Australian FM to visit Iran next week: embassy
* Tehran's press welcomes failure of Camp David summit
* Khatami says Palestinian-governed Jerusalem is essential
* Iranian envoy arrives in Beirut
* Khamenei says any Camp David accord doomed to fail
* Iran warns of AIDS "infiltration" into prisons
* Police find drug traffickers with Soviet surface-to-air
missile
* Mohammad Reza Khatami to head reform party
* Putin's special envoy for the Caspian to visit Iran
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Wednesday
July 26, 2000
Khatami seeks re-elections
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami said on Wednesday
he will seek re-election next year in a challenge to hard-liners trying
to stifle his reforms. Since his election in May 1997, Khatami has introduced
a policy of openness to the outside world and granted greater social and
political freedoms >>>
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Iranian, Russian FMs underline urgent need to clarify Caspian sea
legal status
TEHRAN, July 26 (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi and his
Russian counterpart, Igor Ivanov, discussed Wednesday the urgent need to
clarify the legal status of the Caspian sea, Iran's state radio reported.
"Kharazi and Ivanov underlined the need to adopt a Caspian sea legal
regime as soon as possible," the radio said >>>
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Road workers discover 3000 year-old cemetry
TEHRAN, July 26 (AFP) - A cemetery dating back some 3000 years was recently
discovered in southern Iran during construction work on a road, the official
IRNA news agency reported Wednesday. The 40 (132 feet) by 150 meter (495
feet) Chal Shahin Lama cemetry situated in the Kohkilouyeh- Boyerahmad
(south) province, was excavated and some 70 graves, as well as a variety
of objects were discovered >>>
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Australian FM to visit Iran next week: embassy
TEHRAN, July 26 (AFP) - Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer
will arrive in Tehran Sunday for a two-day official visit, the Australian
embassy in Tehran announced Wednesday. According to the embassy, Downer,
who is heading a political-encomic delegation, is expected to have "comprehensive
discussions on a wide range of bilateral and international issues >>> FULL TEXT
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Tehran's press welcomes failure of Camp David summit
TEHRAN, July 26 (AFP) - Iran's press Wednesday welcomed the failure
of the Camp David summit, echoing Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's
affirmation that Jerusalem is an inalienable part of Islamic-Arab territory
and must be governed by the Palestinians. The future status of Jerusalem
was the thorniest issue at the Camp David summit between Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat >>>
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Tuesday
July 25, 2000
Khatami says Palestinian-governed Jerusalem is essential
TEHRAN, July 25 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has hit out
at the ongoing Camp David peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel,
affirming that Jerusalem is an inalienable part of Islamic-Arab territory
and must be governed by the Palestinians, state radio reported Tuesday.
"This place is the most sacred in Islam, which is why its return to
its true owners is an important Islamic and human duty," Khatami said
in a statement late Monday in his capacity as the head of the Organisation
of the Islamic Conference (OIC) >>>
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Iranian envoy arrives in Beirut
BEIRUT, July 25 (AFP) - The foreign affairs adviser of Iranian spiritual
guide Ayatollah Ali Khameini arrived here Tuesday to meet Lebanese President
Emile Lahoud, officials said. Ali Akbar Velayati was met by Zuheir Hamdan,
director general of the Lebanese foreign minstry, at the Masnaa crossing
point at the Lebanese-Syrian border, they said >>>
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Monday
July 24, 2000
Khamenei says any Camp David accord doomed to fail
TEHRAN, July 22 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
lashed out Saturday at the US-brokered Camp David summit, saying any Palestinian
compromise with Israel would fail because of resistance by radical Palestinian
groups. "While the flag of struggle and resistance flies, the line
of compromise is doomed to fail," Khamenei was quoted as saying by
state television >>>
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Iran warns of AIDS "infiltration" into prisons
TEHRAN, July 22 (AFP) - The director of Iran's penitentary system warned
Saturday of a spread of AIDS in the country's prisons and called on the
government to take urgent measures to combat it. "AIDS has infiltrated
our prisons and if nothing is done society will be seriously hurt,"
Morteza Bakhtiari said at a conference on AIDS, as quoted by the state
news agency IRNA >>>
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Police find drug traffickers with Soviet surface-to-air missile
TEHRAN, July 22 (AFP) - Iranian police found a Soviet-built surface-to-air
missile during a recent skirmish with drug traffickers, the newspaper Kayhan
reported Saturday. The "sophisticated" missile, whose make was
not specified, was designed to target helicopters, said General Nasser
Shabani, police commander in Sistan-Baluchistan province on the Pakistani
border >>>
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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
attempt >>>
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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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