Mullahs' Terrorist Plots Against Dissident Kurds, Iran Zamin News agency, June 5 

Terrorists dispatched by the mullahs' regime yesterday planted a bomb underneath a vehicle belonging to a dissident Iranian Kurdish group in Solaymania (Iraqi Kurdistan). Two members of the group were wounded and their vehicle was badly damaged.

The day before, one of the activists of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Abdollah Khani, was murdered in Khalkan region in an assassination attempt by terrorists dispatched by mullahs….

In a statement, The National Council of Resistance of Iran, condemning these terrorist acts, said: "These criminal attempts take place only 11 days after the regime's sham presidential elections. After their scandalous failure in the elections, the regime has took recourse in stepping up export of terrorism, as the only way to confront domestic crises."

Hollow Rhetoric in Foreign Policy Domain, Reutrer, June 5 

TEHRAN - President-elect Mohammad Khatami on Thursday called for tensions to be eased in Iran's foreign relations, but said all factions should unite against threats from the country's enemies.

"Referring to the hostility and threats of enemies, the president-elect called for a united front to ward off these threats adding that all forces from every wing and faction should work in unity to repel these threats," the Iranian news agency IRNA said...

But analysts said he was not expected to make radical changes in foreign policy, the domain of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Khamenei's Order to His Representatives Regarding Elections, Radio Israel, June 4 

The Arab language Al-Sharq Al-Awsat quoting a high ranking official of the Islamic Republic of Iran wrote that Khamenei had ordered to the central headquarters of Friday Prayer's leaders that they should downplay the effect of Khatami's victory in presidential elections and present it as insignificant.

The senior official told Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that Khamenei wants to, as Iranians say, clip Khatami's wings as much as possible so that he does not get any ambitious ideas…

Internal Disputes, BBC Radio, June 2 

A board member of Majlis [Iranian Parliament], who is a conservative activist, warned the president-elect to coordinate [his choices of ministers] with Majlis in advance.

Hassan Ghaffori Fard, in an interview with [state-controlled daily] Iran News, said "Khatami should not lose caution in selecting his cabinet members….

Speaking Softly and Hiding the Big Stick, Time, June 9 

Before the Clintons and Blairs relaxed over champagne and a convivial dinner in London last week, the Boomer Buddies huddled about Iran. Enraged by its terrorism, its pursuit of nuclear weapons and its attempts to spoil Middle East peace, Clinton long ago imposed a trade embargo on Iran and has regularly denounced the regime. But with the new reform-minded cleric President, Mohammad Khatami, has Clinton softened on the regime? Actually, he told Blair, he was "very skeptical" that Khatami's election would bring real change to Tehran's foreign policy, and Blair agreed…

U.S. Protests Plans to Sell Iran Advanced Missile, The Washington Times, June 4

The U.S. government has protested plans by Kazakhstan to sell advanced air defense missiles to Iran in a deal being brokered by a colonel in the Central Asian nation's army, The Washington Times has learned.

A U.S. Embassy official in Almaty, the Kazakh capital, presented a protest note on April 30 to Kazakh officials citing an article in The Times disclosing details of the $90 million deal to sell SA-10 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, intelligence officials said….

Payments for the missiles has already been made and a delegation of Iranian buyers was in Kazakhstan in early May to examine the shipment, the officials said….

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