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Thursday
November 9, 2000
Khatami to attend Doha summit: official
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will take part
in the upcoming Islamic summit in Doha following Qatar's decision to break
ties with Israel, his office said Thursday. "Qatar has announced
that it is severing its relations with Israel and closing the Zionist regime's
office in Doha. Iran is pleased that Qatar has taken into account the wish
of Muslim countries and Muslims all over the world, and therefore President
Khatami, chairman of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, will go
to the summit," an official statement said >>>
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Police in Persian Gulf island to set up coastal unit against refugees
TEHRAN, Nov 9 (AFP) - Police in Iran's free-trade zone Persian Gulf
island of Kish are planning to deploy coastal forces to stop Afghan refugees
landing on the island, the official IRIB broadcasting agency said in a
web-report Thursday. According to an official from Kish island's police,
cited by the agency, some 2,470 Afghan refugees had already been expelled
from the island, and the fate of another 300 is expected to be decided
on within the next month >>>
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* Khatami to attend Doha summit: official
* Police in Persian Gulf island to set up coastal unit against
refugees
* Iran wants "radical change" in US policies
* Parliament to debate fingerprints, searches for US nationals
* Police make major booze haul
* Mohajerani cancels resignation
* Parliament speaker blasts conservatives
* Reformist decries hard-liners
* Khatami to take part in Islamic conference as planned,
says Iranian envoy
* MPs mull over bill regarding the fingerprinting of US nationals
* Iran scraps short-term visas for Persian Gulf state nationals
* Iranian site hacked
* Embattled Culture minister to explain resignation
* President Khatami winds up Japan visit
* Iranians march against U.S., Israel
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Wednesday
November 8, 2000
Britain's Hoon Says Iran Not a Threat to Persian Gulf
MUSCAT (Reuters) - British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon has said that
Iran is no longer a threat to its Gulf Arab neighbors, but that Iraq could
attack Kuwait again but for the no-fly zones enforced by the United States
and Britain. ``We have seen a significant and positive development in Iran
and its keenness to improve relations with the international community
(so) that we don't view them now as a threat to the Gulf countries,'' Hoon
told reporters at the end of a visit to Oman on Tuesday
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Iran wants "radical change" in US policies
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Iran is hoping for a "radical change"
in US policies towards its Islamic republic, newspapers reported Wednesday
morning, just hours before Republican George W. Bush won the US presidency.
"US behaviour towards our country must undergo a radical change and
there must be serious political will to modify their policies under the
new presidency," Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said, quoted by the
government-run Iran newspaper >>>
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Parliament to debate fingerprints, searches for US nationals
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Iranian MPs on Wednesday presented the reform-majority
parliament with a tit-for-tat bill that would require US nationals to be
fingerprinted and body-searched upon arrival in Iran. The move follows
complaints in recent years from a number of Iranians, including athletes
who had been invited by the United States, about being fingerprinted and
searched after arriving on American soil >>>
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Police make major booze haul
TEHRAN, Nov 8 (AFP) - Iranian police seized more than 6,000 bottles
of alcohol that had been marked as vegetable oil, press reports said Wednesday.
The haul was made from a truck outside Tehran that was en route cross-country
from the western Kermanshah province to the eastern province of Khorassan,
the Kayhan paper said >>>
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Tuesday
November 7, 2000
Mohajerani cancels resignation
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's most popular female legislator went on trial
Tuesday and her husband announced he was withdrawing his resignation as
culture minister to defend himself in a separate court case. Both the prosecution
of lawmaker Jamileh Kadivar and the pressure on her husband, Ataollah Mohajerani,
to resign are seen as attempts by hard-liners to thwart reformists in Iran
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Parliament speaker blasts conservatives, showdown looming on press
TEHRAN, Nov 7 (AFP) - The speaker of Iran's reform-majority parliament
blasted a conservative-led oversight body Tuesday as the two sides appeared
set for a showdown over easing curbs on the press
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Reformist decries hard-liners
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A leading Iranian lawmaker on Tuesday urged President
Mohammad Khatami to condemn the tactics of his hard-line opponents in closing
liberal newspapers and trying to roll back democratic reforms. ``I call
on the president not to remain silent,'' Behzad Nabavi, a reformist who
is deputy speaker of parliament, or Majlis, told lawmakers >>>
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Monday
November 6, 2000
Khatami to take part in Islamic conference
DOHA, Nov 6 (AFP) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami is to take part
in the Islamic summit in Doha, despite Qatar's resistance to calls for
the closure of an Israeli trade office in its capital, an Iranian envoy
said here Monday. "As planned, President Khatami will head Iran's
delegation to the summit," running from November 12 to 14, said Deputy
Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif, quoted by Qatar's news agency QNA
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MPs mull over bill regarding the fingerprinting of US nationals
TEHRAN, Nov 5 (AFP) - More than 50 Iranian MPs are backing a bill that
would require US nationals to be fingerprinted and body-searched upon arrival
in Iran, a newspaper reported Sunday. The deputies are supporting the legislation
"to treat Americans travelling to this country just like the US government
has been treating Iranians there," said Iran Daily, published by the
state news agency IRNA >>>
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Iran scraps short-term visas for Persian Gulf state nationals
TEHRAN, Nov 6 (AFP) - The Iranian government has decided not to impose
visas on nationals of Persian Gulf Arab states for visits of less than
three months, Tehran radio said Monday. The move, the first of its kind
taken by Tehran towards its neighbours, was decided during a cabinet meeting
chaired by President Mohammad Khatami late Tuesday >>>
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Friday
November 3, 2000
Iranian site hacked
Hyundai Iran's web site altered by pro-Isreali hacker. Is this the first
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Embattled Culture minister to explain resignation before parliament:
MP
TEHRAN, Nov 3 (AFP) - Embattled Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani
will appear before the Iranian parliament on Tuesday to explain his decision
to resign from the government, the state IRNA news agency said. Mohajerani,
a close ally of reformist President Mohammad Khatami who has been under
heavy pressure from conservatives, has already handed in his resignation
letter to the president, it said Friday >>>
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President Khatami winds up Japan visit
TOKYO, Nov 3 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami left here for
home by special plane Friday after a four-day official visit to Japan,
the first by a top Iranian leader in 42 years. During his stay, Japan clinched
exclusive negotiating rights to develop the Azadegan oil field in southwest
Iran, one of the biggest oil fields in the Middle East >>>
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Iranians march against U.S., Israel
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Thousands of Iranians marched from the former U.S.
embassy to Friday prayers to mark the 21st anniversary of the hostage crisis
that followed Iran's Islamic revolution. The demonstrators, led by busloads
of schoolchildren, carried banners denouncing the United States and Israel
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