Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
December 1999 - Iran Special Weapons News
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- RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 2, Number 51 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 27 December 1999 -- SYRIA AND ISRAEL, LEBANON AND IRAN / IRANIANS OUT OF COLOMBIA / IRAN'S MISSILE AMBITIONS / IS AN ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY? / UNITY IN TABRIZ
- YEARENDER: IRAN PRESS Voice of America 23 December 1999 -- Toward the end of November, a clerical court in Iran sentenced newspaper editor Abdollah Nouri to five years in prison for publishing articles insulting to Islam and advocating improved relations with the United States.
- RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 2, Number 50 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 20 December 1999 -- DESPITE DEATH SENTENCES, STUDENTS STILL SUPPORT KHATAMI / HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS SLOW IN IRAN / SPECIAL COURT FOR THE CLERGY CRITICIZED / THE CLERGY, THE STATE, AND CORRUPTION / NURI APPEAL FACES PROBLEMS / RAFSANJANI REGISTERS TO RUN / PROBLEMS WITH MUNICIPAL COUNCILS / NO WAY OUT? / RUSSIAN-IRANIAN BORDER?
- RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 2, Number 49 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 13 December 1999 -- KHATAMI SUFFERS A DIPLOMATIC ILLNESS / NEW PUBLICATIONS AMIDST CLOSURES AND TRIALS / SANEI CRITICIZED AGAIN / CLERICAL ARSONIST SENTENCED / GERMAN-IRANIAN BUSINESS CONTACTS NOT ENDANGERED / IRAN MAY ORDER MORE NUCLEAR PLANTS / OIC VISITS RUSSIA / DENY, THEN ACCUSE: IRAN AND HAMAS / BAKU UPSET BY IRANIAN SUBVERSION IN AZERBAIJAN / TEHRAN CRACKS DOWN ON AZERBAIJANIS OF IRAN
- IRAN STUDENTS / POLICE TRIALS Voice of America 06 December 1999 -- A military tribunal in Iran says 20-policemen, including the former police chief of Tehran, are to be tried publicly for raiding a student dormitory during six-days of unrest last July.
- RFE/RL Iran Report, Volume 2, Number 48 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 6 December 1999 -- CONTINUING CRITICISM OF NURI CONVICTION / PROMISES OF JUSTICE / NORTH CAUCASUS CRISIS WORRIES IRAN / IRAN AND THE WTO / AN EMPTY GESTURE
- US Department of State Daily Press Briefing 03 December 1999 -- US aim is to have official dialogue about issues of concern, including support for terrorism. US has not received hoped-for responses, on terrorism cooperation or on visas for Iranians to come to the US. A group of Iranian clerics, who came to the US, complained of their treatment at the airport, and left.
- IRAN PRESS CONVICTION REACT Voice of America 02 December 1999 -- Some senior Iranian religious leaders are criticizing the prison sentence of reformist politician and newspaper publisher Abdollah Nouri.
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