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Friday
September 29, 2000
Iran sentences seven Iraqi pro-Baath terrorists to death - Yunesi
TEHRAN, Sept 29 (AFP) - Seven members of a "terrorist network"
in Iran "sponsored by the Iraqi Baath party" have been sentenced
to death, Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said, cited by the official
IRNA news agency late Thursday. "Twelve people belonging to a vast
terrorist group were arrested recently, and seven of them have been sentenced
to death. Strong documents and proof exist in this relation," IRNA
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Iran says progress made in talks with Iraq
CARACAS (Reuters) - Iran and Iraq held their highest level talks in
nine years on Friday and a senior Iranian official said afterwards they
had made good progress on settling their differences. ``We discussed every
bilateral affair,'' Mohammad Ali Abtahi, chief of staff for President Mohammad
Khatami, told reporters after the meeting in the Venezuelan capital between
Khatami and Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan
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* Iran sentences seven Iraqi pro-Baath
terrorists to death
* Iran says progress made in talks with Iraq
* Egyptian minister visits Iran
* Backers of female presidential candidate name second hopeful
* First Egyptian minister in 21 years to visit Iran
* Khatami to pay first visit to Cuba by an Iranian president
* Iran sought secret talks with Israel: ex-foreign minister
* Majlis ousts Hardliner
* Khatami's office denies culture minister resigned
* Armed man attempts to hijack Iranian passenger plane
* Iran gives first-ever house arrest instead of prison for
juvenile
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Thursday
September 28, 2000
Egyptian minister visits Iran
TEHRAN, Sept 27 (AFP) - The Iranian parliament on Wednesday warned students
not to let hardliners draw them into more violence that could harm President
Mohammad Khatami's reform movement. The reform-majority legislature, in
a statement carried by the state news agency IRNA, said the current situation
was "extremely sensitive" after days of riots marred a pro-reform
student meeting last month >>>
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Wednesday
September 27, 2000
Backers of female presidential candidate name second hopeful
TEHRAN, Sept 27 (AFP) - An Iranian party that last week backed the first
woman ever to run for the presidency of the Islamic republic has also endorsed
a second candidate, the official IRNA news agency said Tuesday. The Jamiateh
Iran Farda (JIF), or Community of Tomorrow's Iran, partisans of supreme
leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have also given their backing to little
known Mohammad-Javad Mohammadi-Nuri, it said >>>
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First Egyptian minister in 21 years to visit Iran
Cairo, Sep 27 (EFE). - Egyptian Public Sector Minister Mojtar Khatab
is to travel to Iran this week, the first cabinet member to visit that
country since the Islamic revolution in 1979, Egyptian diplomats said Wednesday.
According to the sources, Khatab will leave Friday and is to attend the
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Khatami to pay first visit to Cuba by an Iranian president
HAVANA, Sept 26 (AFP) - Mohammad Khatami will pay the first visit to
Cuba by an Iranian president, Tehran's ambassador in the Cuban capital,
Davood Salehi, said Tuesday. Khatami will arrive in Havana Friday for a
48-hour official visit, following his participation in the OPEC summit
in Caracas, the diplomat told a news conference >>>
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Tuesday
September 26, 2000
Iran sought secret talks with Israel: ex-foreign minister
JERUSALEM, Sept 26 (AFP) - High-ranking Iranian officials tried last
year to launch secret talks with Israel, Tehran's arch-enemy, but were
rebuffed by the Jewish state, former Israeli foreign minister David Levy
was quoted as saying Tuesday. "Sources close to the Iranian government
tried several times last year to enage in a secret dialogue with Israel,"
Levy told the daily Yediot Aharonot, adding that he had "categorically
rejected the idea because nothing good would have come out of it."
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Monday
September 25, 2000
Majlis ousts Hardliner
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's reformist-dominated parliament ousted a hard-line
lawmaker Sunday, the third since the new parliament convened in May. Hasan
Moradi, a lawmaker from Arak, central Iran, was ousted through a secret
ballot in the 290-seat parliament, or Majlis, lawmaker Hasan Ramezanianpour
told The Associated Press >>>
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Khatami's office denies culture minister resigned
TEHRAN, Sept 25 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's office
on Monday denied reports that Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani, a regular
target of conservatives over his handling of the press, had resigned. The
denial, carried by the state IRNA news agency, followed press reports that
the resignation of Mohajerani, a close Khatami ally who survived an impeachment
scare last year, had been accepted by the president >>>
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Armed man attempts to hijack Iranian passenger plane
TEHRAN, Sept 25 (AFP) - An Iranian airplane flying from the southern
city of Shiraz to Tehran carrying both Iranian and foreign nationals landed
safely after an armed man tried to hijack the aircaft, the official IRNA
news agency reported Monday. The Fokker 100, belonging to Iran's national
Iran Air airline, was hijacked Sunday by an armed passenger who requested
the plane change its course, IRNA said without giving any further details
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Iran gives first-ever house arrest instead of prison for juvenile
TEHRAN, Sept 24 (AFP) - Iran has for the first time sentenced a teenager
to house arrest rather than jail, as the prisons system tries to cope with
rapidly swelling numbers, press reports said Sunday. A 15-year-old girl,
who ran away from home to protest her divorced father's plans to remarry
and was arrested for vagrancy, was sentenced to three months of detention
at her home, the government newspaper Iran said >>>
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