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BRITAIN and Iran yesterday played down a warning from ahardline Islamic group that it would add interest:to the ..

... reward would be payable with “any earnings it had accrued”.” - - - O *” The bounty was first offered in. 1998 after the Iranian government officially abandoned its support for the fatwa. -~ . Yesterday;, the Iranian:foreign minister, Kamal Kharazzi, said ...

Published: Tuesday 15 February 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 382 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

Tehran fights losing battle against drug barons

... had to respect the opinions of the town’s people”. passes on to distant markets, more than enough stays in Iran. The Iranian government estimates that there are more than two million drug users among Iran’s 65 million people of whom 1.2 million are addicted ...

Published: Friday 18 February 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1131 | Page: 17 | Tags: none

Iraqis urge Saddam to strike at Iran

... spokesman said the authorities had found an Iranian 60mm mortar and two unexploded bombs in the area. Iraq holds the Iranian government responsible for “flagrant aggression against its security and sovereig;fl‘ and “reserves the right to take suitable action” ...

Published: Thursday 23 March 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 356 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

‘Detectives could see the political games being played’

... le as those of the Libyan defector who is expected to denounce his former - colleagues from the witness box. - T he Iranian government remains in a strong position of “plausible deniability”. The phrase is part of the lexicon of international power politics ...

Published: Tuesday 06 June 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 284 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

The mullahs who pledged their revenge William Paul on the evidence pointing to Iran’s guilt for the bombing of ..

... seemed to international observers, rima facie, an open and shut case. F)qspite a formal denial of involvement from the Iranian government it was widely believed that the wild- Eypd mullahs, a decade after the ranacking of the US Embassy in Tref)eran and ...

Published: Tuesday 06 June 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 915 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

‘We'll wait to see what corroboration comes out of this’

... doubt over their clients’ guilt by arguing the bombing was carried out ba a Palestinian group, with the backing of the Iranian government. The trial continues. ! A Foreign Office spokesm yesterday said Britain remain: sceptical about Mr Behbahani claims ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 2000
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 379 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

UK firms did not do well in the clean-up stakes in Kuwait, but there could be another chance if new fields are ..

... Enterprise Oil secured a stake South Pass, which is the largest known offshore gas field in the world. And this week, the Iranian government gave the go-ahead for foreign investors to develop the country’s richest oilfields in the Azadeghan area of southwest ...

Published: Wednesday 24 January 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 889 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

Picture: John Rylands University Library of Manchester

... occupying Soviets. On the other hand, many of the treasures which should have been here remain in Iran and Georgia. The Iranian government hadn’t wanted to take part, and the Georgians - traditionally rivals of their southern neighbour - hadn’t been prepared ...

Published: Tuesday 06 March 2001
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 270 | Page: 45 | Tags: none

PaulC Warnke

... role. arrest for more than a decade, and was closely watched by the Iranian government, but he was allowed to hold religious classes in his home and to receive visits The Iranian government detained a number of his supporters in 1998, according to Amnesty ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 654 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Tit-for-tat row as Iran claims UK ambassador is a Jewish spy

... putting forward another candidate. Sources also indicated the matter had been raised by Tony Blair and Mr Straw with the Iranian government but there had been no change of heart. Relations have been steadily improving since 1998 when the Iranian authorities ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 470 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

8 eolddiEa el .. FEATURES

... icated to the overthrowofthe country’s Islamic fundamentalist regime and is the military arm of the femaledominated Iranian government in exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). While women make up 30 per cent of the estimated 30,000 ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

WA

... WA battalions and brigades. She argues that misogyny is the mainstay of the current Iranian government, so who better. to strike atthe heartofitthanwomen?Many of her recruits have been tortured and imprisoned in Iran’s jails and all are tired of the harsh ...

Published: Thursday 30 May 2002
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 537 | Page: 38 | Tags: none