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May 30-June 2, 2000 / Khordad 10-13, 1379

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Friday
June 2, 2000

* Years after his death, Khomeini still omnipresent in Iran

TEHRAN, June 2 (AFP) - The image is still replayed every night on the TV news. The frail old man, held for support by a steward from Air France, makes his triumphant return to Iran to proclaim the Islamic Republic. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini died June 3, 1989, some 10 years after he returned from exile in France and signaled the end of the Shah's pro-US regime >>> FULL TEXT

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* UN chief says he hopes Hezbollah will help keep south Lebanon calm

UNITED NATIONS, June 2 (AFP) - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has told Iran that he hopes the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement will help to maintain calm in southern Lebanon, Annan's spokesman said Thursday. Clarifying reports from Tehran, spokesman Fred Eckhard said "he believes Hezbollah has a role to play in keeping southern Lebanon calm and peaceful." >>> FULL TEXT

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* Six Iranians arrested in Russia trying to sneak into Japan

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia, June 2 (AFP) - Russian security forces Friday arrested six Iranians at the far-eastern port of Nakhodka for trying to enter Japan illegally, local authorities said >>> FULL TEXT

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Index

* Years after his death, Khomeini still omnipresent in Iran
* UN chief says he hopes Hezbollah will help keep south Lebanon calm
* Six Iranians arrested in Russia trying to sneak into Japan

* Religion meets politics in Khatami death plan
* Iran, Czech republic seek to remove strains in relations
* Veteran Iran revolutionary dies in car crash
* Fatwa plan to kill Khatami
* Reformers are in majority, but not completely in control
* Four reformers proclaimed winners
* Karrunbi elected Majlis Speaker
* Freedom Movement calls on Khatami to form new cabinet
* MKO mortar blasts rock East Tehran, none hurt
* Former Revolutionary Guards naval commander shot dead

* Rafsanjani more threat to reformers outside than inside parliament
* Dutch FM to make first Tehran visit since 1979 revolution
* Iran celebrates Hezbollah feat over Israel with sweets, cakes
* Tehran holds funeral for 300 soldiers killed in war with Iraq
* Reformists prepare to take legislative control

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Thursday
June 1, 2000

* Religion meets politics in Khatami death plan

Tehran (Reuter) - The recent uncovering of a plan to assassinate moderate Iranian President Mohammed Khatami has opened a rare window on the murky world where religion and political violence intersect in the Islamic Republic. News of the plan was made public earlier this week when a prominent conservative politician said a member of the elite Revolutionary Guards unit assigned to protect the president had planned to kill Khatami >>> FULL TEXT

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* Iran, Czech republic seek to remove strains in relations

TEHRAN, June 1 (AFP) - Iran and the Czech republic are trying to improve ties strained over Prague's broadcasts of "anti-Iranian propaganda" and its ban on exports to an Iranian nuclear power plant, the IRNA news agency said Thursday. "We must take steps against obstacles to a thaw in our diplomatic relations," Iranian Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi was quoted by IRNA as saying during a visit here by Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Hynec Kmonicek >>> FULL TEXT

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* Veteran Iran revolutionary dies in car crash

TEHRAN, June 1 (Reuters) - A veteran Iranian revolutionary and former member of parliament died in a car accident on Thursday, state radio reported. Ali Akbar Aboutorabi, a veteran of the 1980-1988 war against Iraq, died along with his father when their car crashed into a trailer truck near Mashhad, a city in northeastern Iran >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
May 31, 2000

* Fatwa plan to kill Khatami

Geneive Abdo in Tehran
The Guardian (London)
Wednesday May 31, 2000

A plan to dispose of Iran's moderate president by clerically authorised murder has been foiled. The would-be assassin was a member of the presidential bodyguard and of the elite Revolutionary Guard who tried to convince senior clerics to issue an edict allowing him to kill President Mohammad Khatami >>> FULL TEXT

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* Reformers are in majority, but not completely in control

TEHRAN, May 31 (AFP) - Reformers were the grand victors in Iran's parliamentary elections, but despite the overwhelming support they enjoy among voters, they have had to ally themselves in parliament with former radicals who are backed by the Islamic clergy. The pro-reform Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) -- led by Mohammad-Reza Khatami, the deputy who is brother of reformist President Mohammad Khatami -- holds some 150 seats in the 290-member parliament >>> FULL TEXT

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* Four reformers proclaimed winners

TEHRAN, May 31 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-dominated election watchdog body, the Council of Guardians, confirmed Wednesday the victories of four more reformers in the May 5 round of parliamentary voting, Iranian television said >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
May 30, 2000

* Karrunbi elected Majlis Speaker

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Parliament on Tuesday elected a reform leader known for his fiery criticism of the United States as its temporary speaker, the country's third most powerful post. Mehdi Karrubi, a former hard-liner who was an aide to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, won 186 votes from the 252 deputies who attended Tuesday's Parliament session, state-run Tehran radio said >>> FULL TEXT

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* Freedom Movement calls on Khatami to form new cabinet

TEHRAN, May 30 (AFP) - An unauthorised Iranian reformist party Tuesday called on President Mohammed Khatami to replace his cabinet in order to lift restrictions on the press and intellectuals, following the inauguration Saturday of a new reformist-dominated parliament. "President Khatami must choose new ministers, because the leaders have shown an inability to respond to the needs of the people," said the banned but largely tolerated Iran Freedom Movement (IFM) in a release >>> FULL TEXT

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* MKO mortar blasts rock East Tehran, none hurt

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Four mortars struck the east of Tehran but there were no reports of injuries or damage, state radio said Tuesday. The Iranian armed opposition Mujahideen Khalq, based in Iraq, claimed responsibility for the mortar attack >>> FULL TEXT

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* Former Revolutionary Guards naval commander shot dead

TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - A former senior official of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has been shot dead by a retired man who later surrendered to police, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported Tuesday. It said Rear Adm. Abdollah Roudaki, a commander of the Guards' naval forces during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, was killed late Monday >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
May 29, 2000

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