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'Beyond Khatami' -- Freedom for Iran
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January 10, 2002
Washington Post
By Reza Pahlavi
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 tragedy, new hope arose for better relations with Iran, as a few positive signals flickered out of Tehran. Ordinary Iranians genuinely shared the grief of America; Iranian youth made that sentiment clear in the streets of Tehran and several major cities.
Among the citizenry of the Islamic republic, some called openly for dialogue with the United States. This was a bid to end Iran's pariah status and salvage its economy from catastrophic downturn. In the West, there were some who were, yet again, thrilled by the seemingly civil discourse of Iran's president, Mohammad Khatami, as he rushed to condemn the terrorist attacks. Many Western analysts concluded that Iran might be ready to cooperate in the anti-terror campaign.
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Lawyer barred, another resigns from political trial
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January 10, 2002
AFP
TEHRAN, Jan 10 (AFP) - One defence lawyer resigned and another was excluded Thursday from the closed-door trial of liberal dissidents and other critics of the Iranian Islamic regime in Tehran's hardline revolutionary court, colleagues said.
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Iran Court Allows Lawyers To Study Case Against Dissidents
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January 10, 2002
WSJ.COM
TEHRAN (AP)--Iran's hard-line Revolutionary Court trying 15 Iranian dissidents behind closed doors on charges they plotted to overthrow the Islamic establishment agreed Thursday to allow lawyers to study the court files, one of the lawyers said.
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Bush says hopes Iran not harboring al Qaeda
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January 10, 2002
Ha'aretz
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush on Thursday urged Iran to become an active member of the coalition against terrorism, saying he hoped Tehran was not harboring members of the al Qaeda network who have fled Afghanistan.
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Iran Exerts Sway on Afghan Border, Worrying the U.S.
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January 10, 2002
The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 — Iran is seeking to exert political and military influence in border regions in western Afghanistan in ways that challenge the authority of the interim government in Kabul and threaten Washington's long-term goals in the country, Pentagon and intelligence officials said today.
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IRAN ACCUSED OF SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES IN AFGHANISTAN
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January 09, 2002
Iran Press Service
KABOL 9 Jan. (IPS) Eighteen days after it came to power, an official from the new interim Afghan authority accused the neighbouring Islamic Republic of Iran of "stirring unrest" in the western provinces of the war-shattered nation by "distributing arms, money and seditious, propaganda material among local commanders".
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US likely to face missile threat from N Korea, Iran, Iraq
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January 09, 2002
AFP
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 (AFP) - The United States will most likely face threats from intercontinental ballistic missiles from North Korea, Iran, and possibly Iraq before 2015, according to a US intelligence estimate made public today.
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CIA Reports on China Nuclear Threat
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January 10, 2002
The New York TImes
WASHINGTON (AP) -- China is expected to have as many as 100 long-range nuclear missiles aimed at the United States by 2015, many of them on hard-to-find mobile launchers, a new CIA report says.
China sees a larger, mobile force as necessary to maintain its nuclear deterrent against the United States, says the report, ``Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile Threat Through 2015.''
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French right thwarted deal on Lebanon hostages in 1986 - ex-ambassador
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January 09, 2002
BBC
The former French ambassador to Tunisia, Eric Rouleau, has said an agreement on the release of French hostages held in Lebanon was reached with Iranian officials in 1986. He added that the release was delayed by two years because the French right conducted parallel negotiations in which it offered Iran greater rewards. The following is the text of a report by Radio France Internationale on 9 January:
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UK condemns Iran for not recognising Israel
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January 09, 2002
IRNA
London, Jan 9, IRNA -- Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has responded to
a letter from his Israeli counterpart by condemning Iran for refusing
to recognise the Zionist entity.
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Iraqi revealed as owner of weapons ship
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January 10, 2002
The Guardian
Registration documents have confirmed that the weapons ship seized by Israel in the Red Sea last week is owned by an Iraqi based in Yemen, and not by the Palestinian Authority as Israel has claimed.
A Lebanese shipping company sold Karine A - known at the time as Rim K - for $400,000 (£280,000) to a man whose name is given in documents as Ali Mohamad Abass. The bill of sale, dated August 31 2001 and obtained by Lloyd's List, states that he is an Iraqi national.
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Freighter Captain Implicates Iran in Weapons Shipment
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January 10, 2002
International Herald Tribune
JERUSALEM The captain of the rusting old freighter, asleep in his cabin before dawn a week ago, was awakened by the sound of feet stomping on deck. When he went to investigate, he found his crew handcuffed and his ship, the Karine A, swarming with Israeli commandos.
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Tanks bulldoze Gaza Strip homes as US backs Israel over arms boat
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January 10, 2002
AFP
Israel demolished 35 houses in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, after Hamas militants killed four Israeli soldiers, as Washington accepted Israeli charges of top Palestinian involvement in smuggling arms from Iran.
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Unwise alliance
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January 10, 2002
Boston Globe
ISRAEL'S INTERCEPTION last week of a ship with 50 tons of weapons from Iran destined for Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority raises grave questions not only about Arafat's leadership but also about Iran's role in such an incendiary venture.
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Bush begining to suspect arms ship intended to 'promote terror'
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January 10, 2002
Ha'aretz
U.S. President George W. Bush said Thursday he was beginning to suspect that a shipload of arms seized by Israel was intended to "promote terror."
U.S. officials said there was a compelling case against senior Palestinian officials and their involvement in the arms-laden ship, the Karine A, seized by Israel a week ago. There are also strong suspicions that Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat knew of the shipment, the officials said. Arafat and other senior Palestinian officials deny any involvement.
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Arafat's Implausible Denials
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January 10, 2002
The New York Times
WASHINGTON -- The radical Islamic ayatollahs of Iran were responsible for dispatching the shipload of 62 rockets and antitank missiles, along with 1,400 mortar shells, to their proxy warriors in the Middle East. Included were 3,000 pounds of powerful new C-4 explosives to be used by suicide bombers against civilians.
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INTERNET USAGE IN IRAN
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January 09, 2002
Iran va Jahan
The daily Qhods newspaper published in Mashad claimed last Tuesday that the
number of internet users in Iran is 380,000. It wrote: "The number of
internet
users in the world was 100million people for the year 2000 whilst in Iran
with
a population of 73million (in 2001) has only 380,000 internet users."
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Bin Laden disciples terrorise Kurds
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January 10, 2002
Guardian
Kurdish Islamic followers of Osama bin Laden, who are attempting to establish a Taliban-style enclave in northern Iraq, have triggered a civil war estimated to have claimed the lives of more than 100 people in four months.
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DRUGS TRADE AFTER THE TALIBAN
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January 10, 2002
Financial Times
The drought that has destroyed the lives of millions of Afghans and Iranians has been a bonus for the drug barons transporting opium and heroin to Europe.
The great Helmand river, its tributaries and surrounding marshlands once threw up a considerable natural obstacle where the borders of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan meet. Today, after three years without a drop of rain, the once mighty waterways are a sandy wasteland.
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Actor or assassin?
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January 10, 2002
Guardian
Hassan Tantai's role in the film Kandahar has caused a sensation. Not for his performance - but because US prosecutors say he is an American fugitive wanted for killing an Iranian dissident 21 years ago.
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Hamas Takes Responsibility for Attack
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January 10, 2002
Los Angeles Times
Mideast: Militant Islamic group says shooting that killed four Israelis at an outpost was in retaliation for seizure of arms-laden ship.
JERUSALEM -- The militant Islamic movement Hamas claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack on an Israeli army outpost that threatened to derail U.S. efforts to secure a cease-fire between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Official calls for setting up Islamic fund for Palestinians
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January 10, 2002
IRNA
Beirut, Jan 10, IRNA -- An Iranian official here Wednesday called for the establishment of a fund to raise the financial aid of the Islamic world for Palestinians to support them in their popular uprising (Intifada) against the Zionist Israeli occupation.
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Khatami Criticizes Reformist's Jailing
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January 10, 2002
International Herald Tribune
TEHRAN (Reuters) - President Mohammed Khatami has denounced the jailing of a reformist member of Parliament as a "serious threat" to Iran's democratic aspirations, one of his top aides said Wednesday.
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