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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 7 - More than 650 female students of Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran staged a demonstration late Monday afternoon in protest against the
dire state of their boarding houses.
Students complained of a lack of basic commodities such as drinkable water and telephone facilities as well as ... |
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 Compass: Concern is growing among Iran’s evangelical community for the safety of a pastor arrested four weeks ago
by the Iranian security police. Iranian authorities have refused to give any reason for the arrest and prolonged detention of Hamid Pourmand, 47, a lay pastor in the Assemblies of God Church. No one has been allowed contact with Pourmand since September 9, when he was arrested along with 85 other evangelical church leaders.
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 Reuters: The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, said Thursday he hoped Iran would fully suspend
its uranium enrichment-related activities and that his agency was working with it to do so. Iran said Wednesday it had processed several tons of raw "yellowcake" uranium to
prepare it for enrichment -- a process that can be used to
make atomic weapons -- in defiance of the U.N. watchdog. |
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 United Press International: An Iranian military official said Thursday his country would launch its first homemade satellite into space during the next Persian year, which starts in March.
Deputy Defense Minister for Space Affairs Nasser Maliki was quoted by the Iranian News Agency as saying the satellite would orbit the earth at low altitudes varying between 100 and 400 kilometers (about 60 to 250 miles).
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 International Herald Tribune: Saddam Hussein hid behind ambiguities and evasions about whether Iraq possessed unconventional weapons - when in fact it had none - partly as
a deterrent to Iran, according to a report by the chief American arms inspector in Iraq.
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 CNN: A missile Iran claimed to have tested earlier this week with the range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) is an
improved version of its previously tested Shahab-3 missile,
the deputy head of Iran's Aerospace Organization said, according to Iranian media.
"Shahab-3 now has a range of 2,000 kilometers and all its components are produced in Iran," said Nasser Maleki. |
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 Asia Times: As a Persian proverb says, "Never two without three." After receiving two hard and insulting slaps in one
week by the conservative-controlled majlis, or parliament, beleaguered Iranian President Mohammad Khatami suffered
a personal blow when one of his closest allies and oldest friends decided to leave the cabinet. |
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 AP: A senior Russian official says his country is going to continue its nuclear energy cooperation with Iran in spite of concern that Tehran could be trying to develop atomic weapons.
Interfax news agency reports that the deputy foreign minister says Russia will comply with commitments it made in Iran. |
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 Associated Press: U.N. nuclear agency chief Mohammed ElBaradei on Thursday renewed his calls to Iran to fully suspend all uranium enrichment-related activities, after
Tehran admitted it has converted a few tons of uranium into gas.
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 Associated Press: IRAN appointed a US-trained fighter pilot as its new air force chief, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported today.
General Karim Ghavami replaced General Reza Pardis. IRNA gave no reason for the switch, made by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. |
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Thursday, 07 October 2004 |
 AFP: Iran will hang on to its sensitive nuclear technology "at
any cost" despite pressure from the United States and the Europeans, powerful former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Thursday.
"The United States and Europe absolutely do not want us to possess nuclear technology but we are determined ... " |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 Middle East Online: Iranian traders were given a stern warning Wednesday to stop using only foreign languages in advertising, company logos or shop signs, an official in the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance said.
"There is a law dating back to 1996 that aims to preserve the Farsi language, " ... |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 BBC: French carmaker Renault has unveiled plans to build its new budget car, the Dacia Logan, in Iran. The car is designed to help Renault boost its sales in emerging markets.
The Logan will be built in Iran by Renault Pars, a joint venture with Iran's Industrial Development and Renovation Organisation (IDRO). |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Baghdad, Oct. 6 – Nineteen armed agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) were detained by Iraqi security forces, Iraqi security officials said. The gunmen were arrested in the Iraqi province of Babil carrying large quantities of illegal drugs.
The 19 men were part of a group of 26 people who had illegally crossed the Iranian border into Iraq during the Shiite religious festivities marking the birthday of the twelfth Shiite imam ... |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 Los Angeles Times: Two of four Iranian brothers jailed three years ago because of their alleged ties to a terrorist group may be released on bail while they pursue appeals in their asylum cases, an appellate court has ordered.
The other two brothers, however, must remain locked up because they failed to appeal the government's refusal to grant them asylum, the court said. |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 Reuters: Iran said on Wednesday it would keep improving its missile capability after announcing that the latest version of its medium-range Shahab-3 could now hit targets up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles) away.
The Islamic Republic's growing missile range, which now stretches to parts of southeastern Europe, comes at a time ... |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 6 – Three young men were flogged in public yesterday afternoon in Farah-Abad Square in the city of Isfahan.
No reason was given as to why the three men were flogged.
Security forces have recently launched a new clampdown on youth and women in Isfahan ... |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 AFP: Iran will not cede to international demands that it suspend all activities related to the enrichment of uranium and the country is prepared for both confrontation or negotiations, the Islamic republic's top national security official said. "We have said clearly that we will not apply the second part of the resolution concerning the total suspension of enrichment," ... |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 AP: Iran has converted a few tons of raw uranium into hexafluoride gas needed for enrichment, a necessary step toward producing nuclear fuel or nuclear weapons, a top nuclear official told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Uranium hexafluoride gas is the material that, in the next
stage, is fed into centrifuges used to enrich uranium. |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 Reuters: U.N. atomic inspectors returned to Iran Tuesday and will be free to visit a disputed military site in their investigation of U.S. allegations that Iran is seeking nuclear warheads, state television reported.
U.S. officials have accused Tehran of concealing parts of a clandestine atomic bomb program at Parchin military base southeast of Tehran ... |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 Reuters: The United States sees no reason to offer Iran incentives to ensure its nuclear programme remains peaceful, a U.S. government official said on Tuesday.
European states want the United States to make such proposals to Tehran after the November 2 U.S. presidential election ... |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2004 |
 Washington Post: Iran has increased the range of its missiles to
1,250 miles, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Tuesday, putting parts of Europe within reach for the first time.
Military analysts had estimated Iran's missile range at 810 miles, which would allow it to strike anywhere in Israel. But Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Ali Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani, the country's influential former president and the
head of a government oversight body, as saying: ... |
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Tuesday, 05 October 2004 |
 AFP: The US said today that Iran's missile program is a serious threat to the Middle East and US interests which is compounded significantly by its alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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Tuesday, 05 October 2004 |
 AFP: A committee of Iran's hardline-dominated parliament gave preliminary approval to a bill that would force the reformist government to resume uranium enrichment in defiance of the UN nuclear watchdog.
State news agency IRNA said the bill was was approved by the foreign affairs and national security committee. |
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Tuesday, 05 October 2004 |
AP: Iran said Tuesday its missiles now have a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles), a substantial extension of their previously declared range.
"Today we have the power to fire missiles to a range of 2,000 kilometers," former President Hashemi Rafsanjani said, according to a report by the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
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Tuesday, 05 October 2004 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Oct. 5 – A young man was publicly hanged yesterday afternoon in the Robat square of Isfahan (central Iran) as his wife and child were forced to watch.
Mehrzad Vajebal-Hoghough, a 33 year old resident in Isfahan was accused of armed robbery and possession of 7
Kilograms of marijuana. |
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Tuesday, 05 October 2004 |
 Reuters :A one-man private plane has crashed in the
northeast of Iran killing the pilot, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.
An interior ministry spokesman said the plane had crashed near the the town of Kalaleh ... |
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Tuesday, 05 October 2004 |
 BBC: A number of jazz and classical music concerts in Iran have been cancelled by the authorities because of their "corrupting" influence, diplomats say. The concerts had been arranged by foreign embassies in Tehran.
Two jazz performances organised by the Italian mission were called off last week only hours before they were due to start. |
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Reuters: Iran should freeze all its uranium enrichment-related activities by a November 25 board of governors meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, said on Friday. 
