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U.S. Traces Iran's Ties to Terror Through a Lebanese
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January 17, 2002
The New York Times
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 - One of the world's most wanted men, charged with the terrorist hijacking of a T.W.A. jetliner in 1985 and implicated in a recent shipment of arms from Iran to the Palestinians, has been operating for years with the protection and backing of the Iranian intelligence services, according to Central Intelligence Agency documents.
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Defining Terrorism
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January 17, 2002
The Wall Street Journal
UNITED NATIONS -- "What looks, smells and kills like terrorism is terrorism." This was the way Jeremy Greenstock, the British U.N. envoy, defined topic A at a Security Council debate soon after September 11. The council then resolved to fight terrorism but, for political reasons, refrained from defining it. The ambassador's description may have been adequate at the time, but as the looks, smells and deaths start to fade into memory, a more coherent definition is needed.
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Iran Rejects Terror Ties Reports, Blames Pro-Israel Lobby
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January 17, 2002
Dow Jones Newswires
TEHRAN (AP)--Iran Thursday rejected U.S. reports linking it to terrorism, saying the "Zionist lobby" in the U.S. was trying to draw attention away from Israel's crackdown on the Palestinians.
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Annan to visit Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran
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January 17, 2002
Info Net
UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 17 (Reuters) — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans this month to visit Afghanistan, where the world body is overseeing the shift to a new interim government, and its key neighbors Pakistan and Iran, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Reality for Iranian women
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January 17, 2002
The Guardian
We were stunned to learn from Jackie Ballard of the "independence" and "freedom" of Iranian women under the fundamentalist regime of mullahs (Another kind of freedom, G2, January 7). As an Iranian woman and a counsellor who has worked with Iranian refugee women and victims of the atrocities of the religious dictatorship ruling Iran, I would like to describe the true situation of women in Iran.
I do not know the source of Jackie Ballard's statistics but the fact is women in Iran are officially second-class citizens.
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Makhmalbaf not sorry for casting man wanted by FBI
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January 17, 2002
The Daily Yomiuri
Kandahar has been making headlines for a number of reasons--the most important being that the film offers a realistic look at the lives of Afghan refugees--but its director says the recent controversy surrounding the past of one of the film's actors is unwarranted.
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Suspected Iranian terrorist awaits outcome of final bid to stay deportation
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January 17, 2002
Canoe
OTTAWA (CP) -- The fate of a suspected Iranian terrorist who fears he'll be tortured and killed if deported to his homeland now rests with the Ontario Court of Appeal. The court is expected to rule by Saturday whether to stay the removal of Mansour Ahani while the United Nations reviews his case.
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Geopolitics Constrain Iran-India Gas Pipe Proj
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January 17, 2002
Dow Jones Newswires
NEW DELHI -- A proposed land pipeline supplying Iranian natural gas to India via Pakistan will remain on the drawing board unless the two South Asian powers bury their mutual mistrust and muster the "political will" to develop the project, a senior executive of BHP Billiton (BHP) said Wednesday.
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Iran has no plans to offer oil/gas equity-official
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January 17, 2002
Reuters
DUBAI, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Energy-rich Iran is sticking with its oil and gas buy-back deals and has no intention of offering equity stakes which are forbidden under the Islamic Republic's constitution, an Iranian oil official said on Wednesday.
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Iran NIOC May Take India's GAIL As Partner In LNG Venture
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January 17, 2002
Dow Jones Newswires
NEW DELHI -- The National Iranian Oil Co. may take India's state-owned Gas Authority of India Ltd. (P.GAI) as its fourth partner in a proposed $2 billion liquefied natural gas project in Iran, said NIOC's Vice President Ahmad Rahgozar Thursday.
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Iran NIOC To Sell 180,000 B/D Crude Oil To India In 2002
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January 17, 2002
Dow Jones Newswires
NEW DELHI -- Iran plans to increase crude oil sales to India to 180,000 barrels a day in 2002 from 165,000 b/d in 2001, Ahmad Rahgozar, vice president of National Iranian Oil Co., said Thursday.
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Israel compiles black book on Iran: Peres
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January 17, 2002
Times of India
JERUSALEM: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has ordered a black book to be compiled on Islamic Iran for distribution around the world, his ministry said on Wednesday. "This black book will reveal all the facts concerning the actions of the Ayatollahs' regime against Israel," it said in a statement.
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UN Ready To Repatriate Afghan Refugees From Pakistan,Iran
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January 17, 2002
Dow Jones
MOSCOW (AP)--The U.N. is ready to help some of the millions of Afghan refugees living in Pakistan and Iran return home, the U.N. high commissioner for refugees said Thursday. "We are ready to start repatriating many refugees," Ruud Lubbers told reporters in Moscow.
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Iraqi- Iranian talks on bilateral cooperation
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January 17, 2002
Arabic News
he Iranian news agency said that the Iranian transport minister Ahmad Khouram on Monday held talks with his Iraqi counterpart Ahmad Murtadi Ahmad on increasing bilateral cooperation especially in air transport between the two countries.
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Aftermath of Terror....
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January 17, 2002
The Wall Street Journal
Turkey Joins List of Antiterror Allies To Lose Bid for U.S. Trade Concessions
WASHINGTON -- Despite its importance as a potential ally against Iraq, Turkey joined a lengthening list of antiterror allies that have come away empty-handed trying to win trade concessions from the US. While coalition partners have received relief from sanctions and, in some cases, stepped-up U.S. aid, U.S. officials said they had no room to budge on Turkey's pitch to ease export quotas on Turkish textiles and open the U.S. market to more sales of Turkish steel.
Nor does the administration look likely to meet Turkey's request for a cut in that nation's $5 billion debt from purchases of U.S. military gear. The International Monetary Fund, with U.S. support, is expected this month to approve an additional $12 billion in standby loans for Turkey, but that step was anticipated months ago and has little connection to the antiterror campaign.
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