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November 13-17, 2000 / Aban 23-27, 1379
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Friday
November 17, 2000
Former Guards chief wants army to help wipe Israel off map
TEHRAN, Nov 17 (AFP) - The former head of Iran's elite Revolutionary
Guards began soliciting volunteers Thursday for a new army to defend the
Palestinians, vowing to fight until Israel is eliminated from the world.
"We are not saying that we will send forces into the occupied territories,"
Mohsen Rezaie told some 1,000 people gathered for the first meeting of
the international anti-Zionist group he has been promoting >>>
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Cleric lashes out at OIC failure to make full break with Israel
TEHRAN, Nov 17 (AFP) - A conservative Iranian cleric lashed out Friday
at the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) for failing to make
a definitive break with the state of Israel at last week's summit. "The
least that could have been expected was that they cut ties with Israel,"
said Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, Iran's former top justice, during a sermon
at weekly prayers carried live on state radio >>>
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Iran, UNESCO agree to establish centre for water management
TEHRAN, Nov 17 (AFP) - UNESCO has agreed to help Iran establish a water
management centre after the Islamic republic's worst drought in decades,
the official IRNA news agency said. It cited Deputy Energy Minister Reza
Ardakanian late Thursday saying the government had signed a deal for a
"regional centre for urban water management" with the UN Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation >>>
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Khamenei urges fight against US influence
TEHRAN, Nov 17 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
on Friday urged the nation to stand strong against the political and cultural
influence of the United States, state television reported. Khamenei, speaking
to thousands of people in the central city of Taffresh, echoed his oft-stated
concern over "US-style" reforms which conservatives say are being
pushed by President Mohammad Khatami's reformist movement >>>
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* Former Guards chief wants army to
help wipe Israel off map
* Cleric lashes out at OIC failure to make full break with
Israel
* Iran, UNESCO agree to establish centre for water management
* Khamenei urges fight against US influence
* Defendant facing death penalty is freed on bail
* Two dead, 15 injured in Iran clashes with MKO: press
* Iran again backs Palestinian uprising
* Hijackers wanted to undermine OIC summit: militia chief
* Khatami undecided about re-election
* Judiciary to set up special court for lawsuits against
the US
* Khatami's office denies planned Cairo visit: report
* Khatami says he intends to visit Cairo "soon:"
report
* Iran and Iraq hold more talks
* Iran deploys troops near Afghan, Pakistani borders to
fight drugs flow
* Khamenei's visit to Arak
* Hijack attempt foiled, three arrested
* Islamic summit opens in Qatar
* Israeli Tells U.S. That Mideast Violence Could Spread
* Khatami Denounces Iran Sanctions
* Iran says 360 Afghan drug smugglers killed in six months
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Thursday
November 16, 2000
Paper criticizes move to lower voting age
TEHRAN, Nov 16 (AFP) - A pro-reform Iranian newspaper on Thursday criticized
the reformist-majority parliament's decision to lower the voting age to
15 ahead of next year's presidential elections. "Our 15-year-olds
have not had a chance to go through the process of political maturity,"
the English-language daily said in an editorial unusually critical of the
reformist legislature >>>
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Two dead, 15 injured in Iran clashes with MKO: press
TEHRAN, Nov 16 (AFP) - Two members of Iran's main armed opposition group,
the People's Mujahedeen, were killed and one security guard injured in
Wednesday's clashes near the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, press reports
said. The conservative Jomhuri-Eslami paper, citing a "reliable source",
said Thursday that the Mujahedeen also "injured 15 people," including
one security official >>>
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Iran again backs Palestinian uprising
TEHRAN, Nov 16 (AFP) - Iran on Thursday again gave its full backing
for the Palestinian uprising against Israel and called for international
intervention to stop the "crimes" of the Jewish state. "A
serious international action is needed to stop Israel's crimes against
the Palestinian people," foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi
said, cited by the official IRNA news agency >>>
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Hijackers wanted to undermine OIC summit: militia chief
TEHRAN, Nov 16 (AFP) - The would-be hijackers of an Iranian domestic
flight wanted to undermine Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
efforts to support the Palestinians, a military commander said Thursday.
General Mohammad Hejazi, head of the Islamic Basiji militia, said they
wanted to "weaken the success of the meeting of OIC heads of state
(last week) during which Palestine was defended in an unprecedented way."
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Wednesday
November 15, 2000
Khatami undecided about re-election
DOHA, Qatar (AP) - In a rare interview, Iran's President Mohammad Khatami
insisted his reforms are unstoppable despite opposition by powerful Islamic
hard-liners. ``This is what the nation wants, and its will cannot be stopped,''
Khatami told The Associated Press >>>
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Judiciary to set up special court for lawsuits against the US
TEHRAN, Nov 15 (AFP) - Tehran's judiciary will soon set up a special
department charged with handling cases of Iranians who want to file suit
against the United States, judicial sources said here Wednesday. According
to the sources, this department is not yet operational and until it is,
the lawsuits cannot be attended to. Judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi
on Monday also affirmed that a special court attending to the cases would
be set up soon >>>
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Khatami's office denies planned Cairo visit: report
TEHRAN, Nov 15 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's office denied
press reports in Egypt announcing plans by the Iranian head of state to
visit Cairo, an Iranian newspaper said Wednesday. "An informed source
at the president's office last night did not confirm reports that Khatami
would travel to Egypt," the Doran-e Emrouz paper said >>>
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Tuesday
November 14, 2000
Khatami says he intends to visit Cairo "soon:" report
CAIRO, Nov 14 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammed Khatami said in remarks
published here Tuesday that he is planning to visit Egypt "soon"
for a meeting with President Hosni Mubarak, the first such encounter since
the 1979 Islamic revolution. Khatami said he "intends to visit Cairo
soon" and "stressed the deep and historic ties that link Egypt
and Iran," Egypt's government Al-Ahram newspaper reported from Doha
where Khatami is visiting for a summit of Muslim countries >>>
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Iran and Iraq hold more talks
DOHA, Nov 14 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami held talks in
Qatar on Tuesday with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's No.2, Ezzat Ibrahim,
on ways of boosting relations between the two former foes, an Iraqi source
said. "They expressed their desire to boost relations between the
two countries," said a member of the Iraqi delegation in Doha for
the Islamic summit which ended late Monday >>>
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Iran deploys troops near Afghan, Pakistani borders to fight drugs
flow
TEHRAN, Nov 14 (AFP) - Iran's armed forces said Tuesday they have deployed
a battalion of troops near the eastern border with Afghanistan and Pakistan
to fight the flow of narcotics into the country. "These troops have
been posted between 20 and 150 kilometers (12 and 95 miles) from the border
with Pakistan and Afghanistan," said the armed forces commander-in-chief,
General Mohammad Salimi, cited by the official IRNA news agency >>> FULL TEXT
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Khamenei's visit to Arak
TEHRAN, Nov 14 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
said Tuesday that the Palestinians will not stop at using stones in their
uprising against Israel but will be forced to take up arms. "I'm sure
of it -- the Palestinian people cannot content themselves with stones,"
Khamenei said in a speech to thousands of people in the central city of
Arak that was broadcast live on state radio >>>
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Monday
November 13, 2000
Hijack attempt foiled, three arrested
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Security guards foiled an attempt to hijack an Iranian
passenger plane in southern Iran on Monday, arresting the three would-be
hijackers, the official news agency IRNA reported. It said the plane, on
a flight from the southwestern city of Ahvaz operated by the company Ariatour,
landed safely in Bandar Abbas on the Gulf, its scheduled destination.>>>
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Islamic summit opens in Qatar
DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia opened an Islamic conference
Sunday by urging Muslim nations that have ties with Israel to cut them,
and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) said his people
will sacrifice for the ``noble cause'' of rising up against the Jewish
state >>>
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Israeli Tells U.S. That Mideast Violence Could Spread
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Israeli minister warned U.S. policy-makers
on Monday that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians could lead
to full-scale confrontation in the Middle East, dragging in Iran, Iraq
and Syria >>>
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Khatami Denounces Iran Sanctions
DOHA, Qatar (AP) - U.S. sanctions against Iran will be more harmful
to America's economy in the long run than Iran's, Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami said Monday. In an interview with The Associated Press on the sidelines
of the Organization of the Islamic Conference summit in Qatar, Khatami
said European and Asian companies would continue to take advantage of the
American business void in Iran >>>
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Iran says 360 Afghan drug smugglers killed in six months
TEHRAN, Nov 13 (AFP) - Iranian security forces have killed 360 Afghan
drug traffickers and arrested another 4,000 in the last six months, Interior
Minister Abdol-Vahed Mussavi-Lari said Monday >>>
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