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Mission impossible could succeed
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Iran va Jahan
by Shaheen Fatemi
As the first three-hour Sunday meeting between Secretary Powell and Chairman Arafat ends and they make another date for next Tuesday the eternally optimists find good reason to become cheerful. If there ever was a truly ‘impossible diplomatic mission’ this must be it. Secretary of the State Colin Power has stepped
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Reza Pahlavi, Iranian exile - hope for Iran
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Arabies Trends
Reza Pahlavi, the son of the late Shah of Iran, is a high-profile proponent of political reform in Iran. He spoke with Christian Malar and Florence Bourdon.
Q: From exile in the United States, you have seen the impact of September 11th, both globally and regionally: What is your assessment of the situation now?
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Afghan official says deposed king to return Wednesday or Thursday
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The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai will travel to Rome on Tuesday to fetch exiled former king Mohammad Zaher Shah, a government spokesman said Sunday.
The spokesman, Yusuf Nuristani, said the 87-year-old former
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Croatian parliamentary delegation leaves on official visit to Iran
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BBC Monitoring Service
The Croatian parliamentary foreign affairs committee delegation led by Deputy Speaker Zdravko Tomac left this morning on an official visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran. During the visit, which is expected to last for several days, our delegation will meet Speaker Mehdi Karroubi and other senior officials in Tehran.
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Chavez reclaims Venezuelan presidency
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The Associated Press
Hugo Chavez reclaimed the presidency of Venezuela today when military captors released him two days after they forced him from office.
CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez returned triumphantly to office two days after he was ousted and arrested by Venezuela's military, raising
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Unemployment, main reason for brain drain
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Tehran Times
TEHRAN -- Educated Iranians are immigrating in large numbers because of unemployment.
In an interview with the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Dr. Sahraeian said that considering the great investment made in education programs in order
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Letter from an Iranian: our future
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IranMania
A French translation of this letter is available in today's French section of Iran va Jahan.
"Dear Iranians:
As an Iranian who has spent nearly a quarter of a century away from his beloved homeland, and dreamed of touching the very soil that
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U.S. setting sights on Hezbollah
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World Net Daily
Two events on Friday reshaped U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's conception of his peace mission to the Middle East: his tour of Israel's tense northern border region, which he termed "an eye opener," and the suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem just as his helicopter lifted off from the Knesset helipad only a quarter of a mile away, killing six Sabbath eve market shoppers and injuring 89.
Landing in the Israel-Lebanese border sector, he was greeted by a group of current and former generals
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US says Iran helps al-Qaeda, argues for force in Iraq
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IranMania
WASHINGTON -- US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran late Friday of providing sanctuary to associates of suspected terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and raised the possibility that military force would be used against Iraq.
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Chinese president to visit southern city of Shiraz first
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BBC Monitoring Service
Shiraz, Fars -- Chinese President Jiang Zemin will visit Shiraz in the first phase of his tour to Iran on Thursday [18 April], announced an official with the provincial Governor- General Office here on Sunday.
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Internet service providers protest against new regulations
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BBC Monitoring Service
Following the publication of the recent Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution ratification on the regulations for information networks and the monopoly of these networks by the public sector, in an open letter to the president, the chairman of Internet Networks Employers Guild [ISPs] called for the reconsideration of the ratification and the prevention of its implementation.
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Former Majlis speaker says US threatening Iran over negotiations
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BBC Monitoring Service
America's recent threats aim at forcing Iran to the negotiating table, Hojjat ol-Eslam val-Moslemin Nateq Nuri, a member of the Expediency Council, told a large gathering of people at Qazvin's Red Crescent Sports Stadium.
He said: America is worried and concerned about the fact that
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Crowd shouts anti-regime slogans at Sahabi's funeral
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IranMania
Mourners carry the coffin of Yadollah Sahabi, who was a co-founder of the now banned Iran Freedom Movement (IFM), during his funeral at Tehran's main Revolution Avenue 14 April 2002. Mourners shouted slogans against Iran's Islamic regime when an estimated 30,000 turned out for the funeal of Sahabi, a prominent figure of the Iran's secular liberal opposition.
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Fanatics move on to training camps in Iran
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The Times
SCORES of Muslim militants from across the Middle East are receiving terrorist training at camps in Iran, undermining
American attempts to deny extremist Islamic groups a base in the region, according to western security sources.
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India eyes Iran, Egypt to sell food grain
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Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi -- India is eyeing new markets like Iran, Egypt, the Philippines, South Korea, Indonesia and China for its food grain to reduce the growing stockpile of 52.9 million tonnes in government silos.
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Powell talks peace with Arafat
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BBC
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has spent some three hours in talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to try to secure a ceasefire after weeks of spiralling violence in the Middle East.
Amid tight security and with Israeli troops ringing the compound, the two met inside Mr Arafat's besieged and bullet-scarred headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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U.N. watches refugee effort for Afghans
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Reuters
GENEVA -— About 223,000 Afghan refugees have returned home since a United Nations program to help them return began six weeks ago, but there is concern over whether conditions are adequate for them to stay, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.
Ruud Lubbers, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, is to visit Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to see the project firsthand and to emphasize the need for long-term rehabilitation and
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Qaddumi calls for Jihad against Israel
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Tehran Times
TEHRAN -- On Saturday Palestine Liberation Organization Political Chief Faruq Qaddumi called for the uprising against Israel to continue.
"We need to resist and continue the struggle and the jihad (holy war)," he said as he arrived in Tehran.
Qaddumi called for "international forces in the occupied territories in order to oust Israeli forces and proclaim a Palestinian state."
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