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Iran calls for oil ban in support of Palestinians
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Ha'aretz Daily
Tehran - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami on Monday called for Islamic states to declare a one-month oil embargo against Israel's main allies to demonstrate support for the Palestinians.
"Khatami in a message to the head of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference called for a simultaneous cut of oil exports from Islamic
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Iraq urges oil money for Palestinians
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Reuters
Baghdad -— Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urged Iran on Sunday to give part of one month’s oil revenues to the Palestinian people, Iraqi state television said. “Iran has previously called for a one-month oil embargo ... and Iraq has implemented and stopped pumping oil for a month,” it quoted Saddam as saying during a cabinet meeting.
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Iran MP summoned to court on fraud charges
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Reuters
Tehran -— A reformist member of Iran's parliament who is former chairman of the semi-private offshore oil company Petropars has been summoned to court on charges of fraud, Iran's IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.
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Tehran arrests returning refugees
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Gulf News
Some 130 Afghan refugees, who had been already repatriated, were arrested in the central city of Yazd while trying to come back to Iran.
Mohammed Reza Rostamy, Deputy Chairman of the Bureau of Alien and Foreign Immigration Affairs (BAFIA), told Gulf News that the majority of the Afghan refugees who are sent back to their country try to return to Iran.
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Iranian official underscores anti-drug campaign
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Asia Pulse
Kabul -- The visiting Secretary-General of the Iranian Anti-Drug Campaign Headquarters Mohammad Fallah, during a meeting with his Afghan counterpart Abdul-Hai Elahi, underlined Iran's complete support for the campaign against narcotic drugs production and smuggling.
In that meeting he gave the
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Mohajerani: Israel is seeking to destroy Palestinian nation
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IRNA
Tehran -- Head of Tehran-based International Center
for Dialogue of Civilizations Ataollah Mohajerani said on Sunday that
Israel is seeking to destroy the Palestinian nation, its leadership
and Palestine national Authority (PNA).
In a meeting with Chairman of Political Bureau of PNA Farouq
Qaddoumi, in which Palestine's Ambassador to Iran Salah Zawawi and
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A designer tugs at Iran's fashion straitjacket
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The Christian Science Monitor
Tehran – Iranian fashion designer Mahla Zamani is resplendent in an ankle-length skirt of burnt orange chiffon, stiletto heels, and a black silk coat, trimmed in green. A swath of white cotton decorated with bright flowers, covers her head and falls in soft folds about her shoulders. Chunky antique rings adorn her fingers, and bright lipstick stains her lips.
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A little leg, a little booze, but hardly Gomorrah
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Kish Journal
Kish, Iran — Two women giggle lightheartedly on the white sands, sitting in their knee-length pants with their bare legs and manicured toes touching the warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Down on the biking track, two men negotiate with a red-haired hooker in glossy makeup.
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US wants permission for Pakistan raid targeting bin Laden
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Afghan News Network
The United States believes Osama bin Laden is hiding in the mountains of Pakistan along its border with Afghanistan and is seeking Islamabad's permission to stage a raid there, the US newsweekly Time reports.
In the issue, out Monday, the magazine said Christina Rocca, assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs,
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Afghanistan: Loya Jirga election process begins
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RFE/RL
Kabul -- Afghan special electors are due today to start the indirect election process that will result in the selection of the Loya Jirga grand national council that will choose Afghanistan's next government.
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Powell addresses Hezbollah attacks
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The Associated Press
Beirut, Lebanon -- Secretary of State Colin Powell made a quick trip Monday to Lebanon seeking support for a crackdown on guerrillas who have been rocketing Israel from sanctuary in the southern part of the country.
He was met at the airport by Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud and then went to see President Emil Lahoud.
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Talks on Caspian Sea legal regime will be a long process
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IRNA
Tehran -- Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi
here on Monday described the talks on determining the legal regime of
the Caspian Sea as a 'territorial issue' which cannot achieve
results in a few sessions.
Asefi pointed out that such negotiations follow a long process and
one should not expect that everything will be sorted out in one or a
few sessions.
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Will Israeli leaders be the first to be tried before the International Criminal Court?
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Center For Security Policy
The day after the United Nations ratified a world court to try war criminals, sympathizers of the Palestinian intifada demanded that Israeli leaders be the first defendants.
A Communist member of the Israeli parliament called for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Elieser to be tried as war criminals before the International Criminal Court (ICC). The crusading left-wing Spanish judge who sued to arrest Chilean President Augusto Pinochet for human rights ... more
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Iran calls for Sharon to be tried before Intl. court
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Iran Mania
Tehran -- Iran called Sunday for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to be brought before the new international criminal court, accusing him of responsibility for "massacres" by the Israeli army in the Jenin refugee camp.
"The international community, particularly the international court, must prosecute Zionist officials, headed by Ariel Sharon and the Israeli army commander Shaul Mofaz, as war criminals", foreign ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said.
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Al-Assad confers with Algerian, Iranian FM
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Arabic News
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Friday at al-Rawda palace received the Algerian foreign minister Abdul Aziz Balkhadem, who is also the chairman of the Algerian side in the Algerian- Syrian joint committee.
The meeting was attended by the deputy premier and foreign minister Farouk al-Shara and the Algerian ambassador in Damascus.
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Iranian newspaper highlights
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Asia Pulse
Iranian Newspaper Highlights, April 14, 2002
IRAN DAILY
- The European Union said on Saturday it was deeply concerned by reports from Palestinians that Israel had massacred hundreds of Palestinian refugees in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin, AFP reported.
IRAN NEWS
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Powell can't break deadlock
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Daily News
Washington -- No one blinked in the Mideast standoff yesterday as Yasser Arafat refused to promise an end to suicide bombings — and Israel said its military offensive could last two more weeks.
As tensions boiled beyond Israel's borders and stirred fears of a widening war, the White House gave Secretary of State Powell the go-ahead to extend his high-stakes peacemaking trip for a few more days.
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