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June 19-23, 2000 / Khordad 30-Tir 3, 1379

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Friday
June 23, 2000

Khatami cautions against globalization and unipolar dominance

BEIJING, June 23 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, on the second day of a five-day visit to China, called Friday for an "Asian convergence" aimed at standing up to Western dominance and its "current process of globalization." Speaking to students at China's prestigious Beijing University, Khatami said that as two of the world's greatest civilizations, China and Iran needed to work together to forge the world of tomorrow >>> FULL TEXT

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Guardian Council cancel election result

TEHRAN, June 23 (AFP) - The conservative-dominated Guardians Council has annulled the parliamentary election victory of a pro-reform candidate in western Iran, the official IRNA news agency said Friday. The council, which supervises elections, overturned the selection of Khaled Tavakoli to represent Saqqez and Baneh in the western province of Kurdistan "for various reasons," the agency said >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran says it killed seven MKO guerrillas

TEHRAN, June 23 (AFP) - Iranian security forces killed seven members of the armed opposition group, People's Mujahedeen, and wounded several others in recent days in western Iran, state television announced Thursday, citing the intelligence ministry. "Seven mercenaries were killed and several others wounded in three engagements as they tried to infiltrate Iran," a ministry communique said >>> FULL TEXT

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Iran denies responsibility for Iraqi blast

TEHRAN, June 22 (AFP) - The Iranian government said Thursday that it had nothing to do with a recent car bomb attack in Iraq that Baghdad says killed an Iranian intelligence officer and three others. "The Islamic Republic of Iran is not at all connected to this incident and completely rejects the Iraqi accusations," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying >>> FULL TEXT

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Index

* Khatami cautions against globalization and unipolar dominance
* Guardian Council cancel election result
* Iran says it killed seven MKO guerrillas
* Iran denies responsibility for Iraqi blast
* Iranian, Egyptian presidents talk
* Iraq blames Iran for rocket plans
* Khatami to visit troubled Xinjiang region on China trip
* Khatami visits China to build on already strong ties
* U.S. general says Iran still a threat despite reform
* Blast rocks southern Iranian university
* Iran no loner 'rogue state': U.S.
* Khatami to go to Germany early July

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Thursday
June 22, 2000

Iranian, Egyptian presidents talk

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The Iranian and Egyptian presidents spoke by telephone in the first direct contact between the leaders of the two states since the time of Iran's Islamic revolution, the official Iranian news agency reported. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak congratulated Mohammad Khatami on Iran's accession to the G-15 group of nations, the Islamic Republic News Agency said Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT

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Iraq blames Iran for rocket plans

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Four men, including an Iranian intelligence officer, were killed in Baghdad early this month while preparing to fire six rockets at targets in the city, said a security statement released Thursday. The General Directorate of the Security said the men were preparing a car to be used as a rocket launcher when it accidentally exploded. Iraq accused Iran of planning the attack >>> FULL TEXT

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Wednesday
June 21, 2000

Khatami to visit troubled Xinjiang region on China trip

BEIJING, June 21 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami is to visit Xinjiang during this week's visit to China despite Beijing's nervousness over armed separatism in the western Moslem-majority region. Diplomatic sources in Beijing said Khatami would visit the Grand Mosque in the western-most town of Kashgar during his trip to the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region which is home to half China's 20 million Moslems >>> FULL TEXT

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Tuesday
June 20, 2000

Khatami visits China to build on already strong ties

TEHRAN, June 20 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami arrives in China on Thursday for a six-day state visit, his first since being elected in 1997, with plans to strengthen the two countries' already close political, economic and military ties. The length of Khatami's stay and the make-up of his entourage demonstrate the importance attached to the trip >>> FULL TEXT

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U.S. general says Iran still a threat despite reform

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. forces in the Gulf said Tuesday that Iran remained a threat to the oil-rich region despite political reforms inside the country. ``We are hopeful that there is change taking place in Iran. We certainly think it would be best for the region if the moderates continue to gain and to control the path that Iran is taking,'' General Anthony Zinni told reporters in Abu Dhabi >>> FULL TEXT

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Blast rocks southern Iranian university

TEHRAN, June 20 (Reuters) - A blast rocked the university campus in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of injury, local journalists said. They told Reuters by telephone the explosion occurred in a lecture hall at the college of literature, scene on June 17 of an address by a prominent Islamic modernist who has often been the target of hardline violence >>> FULL TEXT

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Monday
June 19, 2000

Iran no loner 'rogue state': U.S.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran, Libya and North Korea are rogues no longer, the State Department has decided. Now they're just ``states of concern'', Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said in a radio interview. ``Some of those countries aren't as bad as they used to be >>> FULL TEXT

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Khatami to go to Germany early July

TEHRAN, June 19 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will make a state visit to Germany, Iran's leading trade partner, at the beginning of July, an official said Monday >>> FULL TEXT

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