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Mullah’s death squads whitewashed by its apologists
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Iran va Jahan
By Shaheen Fatemi
In the April 10, 2002 issue of Iran-va-Jahan (see archives), among other dismal news from Iran, there was one item which deserved special attention. This news item, carried by the wire services, was based on a report from Isfahan, stating that the so-called ‘judiciary,’ set up and run by the Mullahs, has condemned to death four young people because of participation in last October’s celebration/demonstrations after the World Cup preliminary matches.
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Executions of football rioters in Iran
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Prima News
Los Angeles, Ca, USA -- Early this week, four residents of Esfahan, arrested after clashes with police in last October, were executed in Iran. They were accused of “banditism”, “hooliganism” and “assault”.
According to the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran, Javad Dasteguerdi, Mojtaba Akbari, Rassoul Chatr-aie and Majid Hosseini were hung on April 8 or 9.
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Mohajerani urges Islamic states to join oil embargo against Israel
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Arabic News
Head of the Tehran-based International Center for Dialogue among Civilizations Ataollah Mohajerani on Tuesday called on intellectuals and artists to protest against Israeli crackdown against defenseless Palestinians, a report said.
"Addressing a rally of the members of parliament and students of Tehran University in front of Palestinian Embassy in Tehran,
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Caspian: impasse on setting sea borders continues
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RFI/RL
Boston -- Iran and Russia failed again to mend their rift over Caspian Sea borders during Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi's visit to Moscow 4-5 April, raising doubts about a five-nation summit in late April.
The question of legally dividing the Caspian was ranked low on the list of agenda
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Iran: Hard-line advice for Arafat predominates
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RFI/RL
The political leadership in Tehran is advocating a hard-line solution to the current Middle East crisis, but not all Iranians agree on the wisdom of that approach. A group of reformist journalists and intellectuals told RFE/RL's Persian Service that they want to see a peaceful solution to the Middle East crisis.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during the 5 April Friday prayer sermon
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In Iraq and Iran, there's a sporting chance regime change would bring improvement
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National Post
Tackle Saddam first, the West Bank later
Another week, another high-level mission to the Middle East. This time, Colin Powell is flying to the region to bring peace; last time round, Dick Cheney was flying to the region to whip up war fever. It seems a lifetime ago, but it's just the other day that the Vice-President was released from his "secure location" and
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Why do all our enemies and friends in the Middle East get a pass?
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National Review
Democracy is not perfect. An entire corpus of classical literature — from the Old Oligarch and Aristophanes to Plato and Aristotle — catalogues its absurdities and inconsistencies. George Bernard Shaw once remarked, "Democracy substitutes election by the
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Unemployment problem could become a nightmare if unheed
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IRNA
Tehran, April 11, IRNA -- `Iran News' in its editorial on Thursday warned that the problem of unemployment in Iran could, in the near future, become a nightmare if nothing is done to solve it.
Quoting Iranian Minister of Economy and Finance Tahmasb Mazaheri,it said the current number of unemployed could reach a staggering five million by 2004.
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Dissidents accuse the judiciary for violating laws
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Iran Press Service
PARIS -- Two leading Iranian political dissidents accused the Iranian Islamic judiciary of violating the Constitution by placing political prisoners in illegal, dreadful prisons that lack all sanitary, health and medical facilities and services.
"Contrary to all laws, the baseless, unfounded and fabricated charges we have been accused, were made public by the Judiciary before we had been arrested and tried", said Dr Habibollah Peyman, the leader of the Iranian Muslims People’s Party, released last night on a one billion Iranian Rials (125.000 USD) bail
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Iranian influence feared near border
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The Washington Times
HERAT, Afghanistan — Ghari Ahmad Ali nominally leads the 4th Armored Division of the U.S.-backed Afghan army, but he looks to the late Ayatollah Khomeini for "spiritual" support and recently led the Afghan chapter of a terrorist group active in southern Lebanon. Top Stories
Many suspect the warlord and his armed Shi'ite warriors, holed up at an old military base outside of this western Afghan city, await orders from Iran, just 75 miles away.
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OPEC not planning to replace Iraqi shortfall - Iran moderates stance
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The Associated Press
LONDON -- OPEC has no plans to pump more oil to replace the crude Iraq is withholding from the market, reasoning that the recent spike in oil prices will ease once violence between Israel and the Palestinians abates, the group's top official said Wednesday.
OPEC Secretary-general Ali Rodriguez defended the decision to keep output steady until at least late June by insisting that global supplies were "normal" in relation to the physical demand for crude.
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Iranian cars to hit UAE roads shortly
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Gulf News
Iran Khodro Co, which claims to be the Middle East's biggest carmaker, says Iranian made cars will be imported by the UAE in three months.
The 1.8-litre Samand, the first car to be wholly designed and built in Iran, will be sold directly through the company's own new showroom in Dubai.
The company plans to sell 1,000 Samands in its first year. "The cars are aimed at Iranian expats and will sell for around Dh37,000," said A.R. Ghane, executive manager, Automotive Components Technology General
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Korea ex-im bank to fund $2 BLN for crude, gas development in Iran
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Yahoo News
SEOUL, April 11 Asia Pulse - The Export-Import Bank of Korea agreed Wednesday to provide $2 billion to support oil and gas development projects in Iran with that country's state-run petroleum corporation, the bank said Thursday.
Under the "minutes of agreement" signed between the partners, future revenue will serve as as collateral; neither the Iranian government nor the central bank will provide credit guarantees.
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New rules on caviar harvest upset environmental groups
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The New York Times
GENEVA — Environmental groups and the United Nations agency responsible for protecting endangered species are battling over caviar.
An environmental coalition, Caviar Emptor, argues that a recent decision by the agency, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or Cites, ignored evidence of impending extinction and allowed the resumption of fishing for beluga sturgeon in the Caspian Sea.
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New bus production line opens in Iran
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IRNA
TEHRAN - The Iran-Khodro Diesel company has launched a new bus assembly line in a ceremony lead by Minister of Industry and Mines Eshaq Jahangiri.
The company spent rls 400 billion on the project, which is the largest bus production facility in the Middle East.
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Traders in Dubai neglect toman
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Gulf News
The Iranian toman is a much neglected currency nowadays. The cries of Iranian merchants that rang out at toman auctions in Deira souks have died.
Until up to a decade ago, Iranian traders used to come to Dubai with no hard currency but with pockets filled with tomans to buy goods.
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Top clerics & Safavi voice support for suicide bombers
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IranMania & AFP
TEHRAN -- Four leading Shiite Muslim clerics as well as the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards militia expressed support Wednesday for the Palestinian suicide bombings against Israel.
"Suicide attacks are justified. Those who carry out such acts die as martyrs and will end up in paradise," Grand Ayatollah Yussef Sanei told an office of support for the Palestinian intifada headed by MP and former ambassador to Syria Ali Akbar Mohtashami.
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If you want to know where the Israeli-Palestinian war is going, watch Lebanon
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TownHall.com
WASHINGTON -- Watch Lebanon. If you want to know where the Israeli-Palestinian war is going, watch Lebanon. If the war goes--literally--ballistic, the fuse will have been lit by the Iran-backed Hezbollah guerrillas now firing rockets into Israel from Lebanon. But did Israel not withdraw from Lebanon almost two years ago? Why is there still a problem with Lebanon?
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Hizbullah makes powerful statement with all-out attacks in Shebaa Farms
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The Daily Star
Hizbullah fighters planted their flag on the ramparts of an Israeli outpost in the Shebaa Farms Wednesday during the heaviest bombardment conducted by the resistance in a decade.
The assault, in which an Israeli soldier was wounded, came hours after four Katyusha rockets were fired toward Kiryat Shemona.
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Hezbollah offers to exchange captured Israeli
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BBC
The leader of the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, has offered to free a captured Israeli in exchange for a guarantee that Israel would spare the lives of about 100 Palestinian fighters trapped in the refugee camp in Jenin.
Sheikh Nasrallah said his group would release the man, Elhanan Tennenbaum, in return for an end to the Israeli attack on the camp.
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Arrests reported in Afghan attacks
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The Associated Press
KABUL -- Afghan officials on Wednesday announced arrests in a rocket attack on international peacekeepers and a bombing that targeted the country's defense minister.
The arrests came as factional fighting persisted within Afghanistan, and a U.N. envoy said establishment of an Afghan army and police force is the only way to ensure long-term stability.
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It's dangerous waters ahead for the war on terrorism
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The Weekly Standard
In military terms, Palestinian terrorists are losing badly in the current Israeli operation to destroy the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank. Palestinian militants, far from welcoming martyrdom, as the American press insists must be the result of the Israeli offensive, are instead surrendering in droves to Israeli fighters. In the last couple of days, hundreds have surrendered in the West Bank town of Nablus and in the refugee camp of Jenin alone. This can't help but put a dent in the terrorists' ability to carry out future attacks on Israeli civilians.
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Afghan security sweep nets 151 rockets, suspects
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Reuters
KABUL - International peacekeepers said on Thursday they have found 151 Chinese-made rockets and a top Afghan official said suspected Taliban and al Qaeda rebels involved in rocket attacks on the capital had been arrested.
General Deen Mohammad Joorat, the Interior Ministry security chief, said there also had been further arrests of suspects in a plot to kill interim leader Hamid Karzai and ex-King Zahir Shah.
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