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Friday
June 30, 2000
Iran, Egypt may announce full ties -Iran official
CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland, June 30 (Reuters) - Estranged Middle East
heavyweights Iran and Egypt may announce within weeks the resumption of
full diplomatic ties after 21 years of strained relations, a senior Iranian
official said on Friday. ``As far as I know there is a plan in the next
few weeks to announce the official resumption of full diplomatic relations,''
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammad Hossein Adeli said during a panel
discussion at the Crans-Montana business forum >>>
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Parliamentarians head for OIC meeting in Egypt
TEHRAN, June 30 (AFP) - Two members of the Iranian parliament headed
for Cairo Friday for a conference of counterparts from other Organisation
of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states, amid warming relations between
Iran and Egypt. Mohsen Mirdamadi, head of the parliament's national security
and foreign policy commission, and his deputy Mohsen Armin, were making
the first official trip abroad by Iranian MPs since the new reformist-dominated
parliament opened on May 27 >>>
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Low turnout inrun-off elections
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Turnout appeared low in Tehran's legislative runoff
elections, held Friday to fill two seats for which first-round reformist
victories were annulled by the hard-line election council. The two vacant
seats in greater Tehran were being contested by four pro-reform candidates
who narrowly missed victory in the February polls. Turnout was light because
of the absence of conservative candidates in the mix. Results were expected
to be announced Saturday >>>
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U.S. Welcomes Iran's Halting of Two Iraqi Tankers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday welcomed Iran's
statement that it had impounded two tankers carrying smuggled Iraqi oil
and was holding the vessels off the coast of Kish Island. ``We consider
Iranian actions in support of U.N. Security Council resolutions a positive
development, which we certainly welcome, and we hope that that would continue,''
State Department spokesman Philip Reeker told reporters >>>
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* Iran, Egypt may announce full ties
-Iran official
* Parliamentarians head for OIC meeting in Egypt
* Low turnout inrun-off elections
* U.S. Welcomes Iran's Halting of Two Iraqi Tankers
* Iranians go to polls again amid worsening political tension
* Former police chief gets top military post
* Iran frees 450 more Iraqi POWs
* Moscow invites president Khatami to visit
* UK's Cook Visit to Iran Postponed Again
* Bill would ban police and army from universities
* Basketball-American to coach Iran national squad
* American tourists said knifed in Iran hotel
* Khamenei sacks head of national police
* Khatami concludes religiously-sensitive
Chinese tour
* Nations discuss democracy
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Thursday
June 29, 2000
Iranians go to polls again amid worsening political tension
TEHRAN, June 29 (AFP) - Residents of the Iranian capital prepared to
go to the polls Friday amid political friction as arrests and threats of
arrests multiply against reformist lawyers and intellectuals. The election
in Tehran, the country's political epicenter, only concerns two seats.
All four candidates are reformers and voter turnout is expected to be low
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Former police chief gets top military post
TEHRAN, June 29 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
has named the country's former police chief, replaced Wednesday, to a senior
post in the military hierarchy, state radio reported Thursday. General
Hedayat Lotfian, a career soldier, was appointed to the inspection division
of the armed forces general staff, replacing General Ali Sayad Shirazi,
who was assassinated in April last year >>>
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Iran frees 450 more Iraqi POWs
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran has freed 450 Iraqi prisoners of war captured
during the bloody 1980-88 war, the official Islamic Republic News Agency
reported Thursday. ``The Islamic Republic of Iran, in a humanitarian gesture,
freed 450 Iraqi POWs around midnight Wednesday night,'' the agency said
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Moscow invites president Khatami to visit
TEHRAN, June 29 (AFP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited
his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Khatami to make an official visit to Moscow,
the state news agency IRNA said Thursday. The invitation was issued to
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Morteza Sarmadi by Russian Foreign Minister
Igor Ivanov in the Russian capital Wednesday, IRNA said >>>
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Wednesday
June 28, 2000
UK's Cook Visit to Iran Postponed Again
LONDON (Reuters) - British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook's planned visit
to Iran next week -- the first by a British minister since the 1979 Islamic
revolution -- has been postponed again, this time at Tehran's request,
the Foreign Office said on Wednesday. A British statement cited Iranian
Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi's ``busy schedule and foreign travel commitments''
as grounds for the second postponement. British officials said it had nothing
to do with the verdict due Saturday in the trial of 13 Iranian Jews accused
of espionage for Israel
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Bill would ban police and army from universities
TEHRAN, June 28 (AFP) - The reformist-dominated Iranian parliament was
presented Wednesday with a bill banning police and soldiers from university
campuses, a parliamentary source reported. The bill was put forward by
47 members of the reformist majority and listed for parliamentary consideration
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Judicial chief rejects calls to end newspaper closings
TEHRAN, June 28 (AFP) - Iranian judicial chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi
has rejected calls from parliament to stop shutting down newspapers, a
response reformers say is "unacceptable."
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American tourists said knifed in Iran hotel
TEHRAN, June 28 (Reuters) - Two American women visiting the central
Iranian city of Isfahan were wounded in a knife attack by a would-be thief,
the daily Resalat said on Wednesday. ``The thief entered the room of the
two tourists through the cooling ducts'' at the Abbasi Hotel, popular with
Western tourists, the newspaper said, adding the incident took place about
a week ago >>>
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Tuesday
June 27, 2000
Khamenei sacks head of national police
TEHRAN, June 28 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
has sacked the hardline national police chief, the man held responsible
by the powerful reform movement bloody unrest last July. The official IRNA
news agency said on Wednesday Khamenei had ordered the removal of Brigadier
General Hedayat Lotfian as head of law enforcement forces. Brigadier General
Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, of the elite Revolutionary Guards air force, was
appointed in his place >>>
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Monday
June 26, 2000
Khatami concludes religiously-sensitive Chinese tour
BEIJING, June 25 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami completed
his five-day visit to China on Sunday, leaving the Xinjiang region in the
country's far west for Hong Kong, official Chinese news agency Xinhua said.
He spent the day visiting a Qing dynasty tomb and meeting members of the
local Islamic association, the agency said >>>
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Nations discuss democracy
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Fiji and Kyrgyzstan were politely asked to ignore
their invitations, and they did. Peru and Haiti, which became unwanted
guests after suspect elections in each country, decided to show up anyway.
Ivory Coast may well have had a seat, had it not been for the December
coup. And some are asking why Iran, which just completed successful elections,
isn't here >>>
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