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Friday
Ocotber 13, 2000
Kharrazi arrives in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iran's foreign minister arrived in Baghdad on Friday
to talk about prisoners of war, reparations and other issues lingering
from the 1980-1988 war between the two countries. Both Iranian Foreign
Minister Kamal Kharrazi and his Iraqi counterpart Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf
expressed hope that their discussions over the next several days will lead
toward normalizing ties >>>
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Iran says world community must take serious action against Israel
TEHRAN, Oct 13 (AFP) - Iran said Friday it expects the world community
to take serious action against Israel after the Jewish state bombarded
Palestinian cities in retaliation for the lynching of three Israelis. Foreign
ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi, quoted by state radio, condemned the
"Zionist army's barbaric aggressions" which he said had "once
again ... reduced the Palestinian people to blood and dust." >>> FULL TEXT
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Cleric blasts US as inhuman, wants Muslim support for Palestinians
TEHRAN, Oct 13 (AFP) - A conservative Iranian cleric on Friday blasted
the United States as inhuman and said it was the duty of Muslims worldwide
to cut all relations with Israel and rise up against the Jewish state.
"Palestinians are being killed ruthlessly," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati
said at weekly prayers at Tehran university, a day after Israel bombarded
Palestinian cities in response to the lynching of three Israelis >>> FULL TEXT
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Republicans hit Gore on Russia arms to Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans attacked Vice President Al Gore (news
- web sites) on Friday over Russia's failure to meet a deadline for ending
arms shipments to Iran under a 1995 agreement that Gore negotiated with
Russia. Disclosure of the missed deadline and previously unpublicized terms
of the pact -- assuring Russia it would not face U.S. sanctions for the
shipments -- drew Republican charges that the Clinton administration had
improperly withheld details from Congress and destabilized the Middle East
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* Kharrazi arrives in Iraq
* Iran says world community must take serious action against
Israel
* Cleric blasts US as inhuman, wants Muslim support for
Palestinians
* Republicans hit Gore on Russia arms to Iran
* Iran considers urgent meeting of Islamic conference
* Annan, Kharrazi to meet in Beirut
* Iran press condemns Paris "attack" on state
airline
* Woman who threw egg at Khatami is a terrorist: Iran embassy
* Iran Sees No Quick Swap of Israeli, Arab Captives
* Congress Members call for change in Iran policy
* Reformist culture minister Mohajerani hands in resignation
* Kharrazi set to visit Iraq in bid toward normal ties
* First post-revolution parade by policewomen
* Iran condemns Israeli action in Lebanon
* Iran calls for Islamic security belt to protect Palestine
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Thursday
October 12, 2000
Iran considers urgent meeting of Islamic conference
BEIRUT, Oct 12 (AFP) - Iran is considering calling a ministerial meeting
of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to back the Palestinians
in their confrontation with Israel, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi
said Thursday. Iran's President Mohammad Khatami, current head of the 56-member
OIC, is considering a foreign ministers' meeting to support the two-week-old
Palestinian intifada, Kharazi told reporters after talks with Lebanese
President Emile Lahoud >>>
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Annan, Kharrazi to meet in Beirut
BEIRUT, Oct 12 (AFP) - United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is
to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi, a fierce opponent of the
Middle East peace process, in Beirut Thursday, UN spokesman Negib Friji
told AFP. "The secretary general, following his talks with (Lebanese)
President Emile Lahoud, will meet Mr Kharazi this afternoon at a time to
be decided," Friji said >>>
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Iran press condemns Paris "attack" on state airline
TEHRAN, Oct 12 (AFP) - Iranian newspapers on Thursday denounced the
"attack" on the Paris office of state carrier Iran Air during
a pro-Israeli demonstration. The Tehran Times said windows were broken
and other damage inflicted on the office during a rally Tuesday night near
the Israeli embassy in the French capital, not far from the airline's office
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Woman who threw egg at Khatami is a terrorist: Iran embassy
CARACAS, Oct 12 (AFP) - The Iranian embassy in Caracas said Wednesday
that the woman arrested last month for trying to throw an egg at Iran's
President Mohammad Khatami during the OPEC summit was a member of an Iraqi
terrorist group. "According to the information we have about Laila
Jazayeri, she is a member of the terrorist group the People's Mujahadeen
(MKO)," the statement from the embassy said >>>
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Wednesday
October 11, 2000
Iran Sees No Quick Swap of Israeli, Arab Captives
DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Iran's Foreign Minister said on Wednesday he saw
no imminent exchange of three Israeli soldiers captured by Iranian-backed
Lebanese guerrillas for Arab prisoners held in Israel. ``There are intensified
efforts to free the Israeli captives and the Arab prisoners in Israeli
jails, but I do not see any solution to this problem at present,'' Kamal
Kharrazi said >>>
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Congress Members call for change in Iran policy
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan majority of House members issued an unusual
``Statement of Iranian Policy'' Wednesday, lauding the goals of an exiled
opposition movement the State Department links to terrorism. Calling for
a ``firm policy against the Tehran regime,'' the members called for the
U.S. government to align itself with the goals of the National Council
of Resistance >>>
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Tuesday
October 10, 2000
Reformist culture minister Mohajerani hands in resignation
TEHRAN, Oct 10 (AFP) - Iran's popular reformist culture minister, Ataollah
Mohajerani, whose imminent resignation has been rumoured for weeks, has
finally resigned, a government source told AFP Tuesday, adding it had not
yet been accepted. "Mohajerani has handed in his resignation. The
president has not yet accepted it. The decision will be taken and announced
within a few days," the source said >>>
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Kharrazi set to visit Iraq in bid toward normal ties
TEHRAN, Oct 10 (AFP) - Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi plans to
visit the Iraqi capital on Thursday, "possibly by plane", in
a bid to normalise ties 12 years after the end of their war, a ministry
official said. It will be the first such mission by an Iranian foreign
minister since Ali Akbar Velayati travelled to Iraq in November 1990 ahead
of the Persian Gulf War in which Iraqi forces were evicted from Kuwait
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First post-revolution parade by policewomen
TEHRAN, Oct 10 (AFP) - For the first time since the Islamic revolution
of 1979, around 100 women police officers went on parade in Tehran Monday,
dressed in black chadors and carrying sub-machine guns, in front of Iranian
supremo Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The women police officers were the first
to have been trained at the police college where the parade took place
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Monday
October 9, 2000
Iran condemns Israeli action in Lebanon
TEHRAN, Oct 8 (AFP) - Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Aesfi
condemned Israeli action in southern Lebanon following the snatching of
three Israeli soldiers by Iranian-backed Hezbollah guerrillas, press reports
said here Sunday. Tehran "strongly condemns the Israeli Zionists'
savage action in bombarding the defenseless people in southern Lebanon,"
Asefi was quoted by the Iran News daily as saying late Saturday >>> FULL TEXT
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Iran body calls for an Islamic security belt to protect Palestine
TEHRAN, Oct 9 (AFP) - The secretary general of Iran's powerful Expediency
Council called Sunday for the creation of an Islamic security belt around
the Israeli border to help protect Palestine from further attacks. "We,
the revolutionary forces in Iran -- who feel that an unacceptable offence
is being committed by international circles and governments -- have decided
to create an anti-Zionist movement," Mohsen Rezai told reporters in
Tehran >>>
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