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Issue No. 40 - Nov. 10, 1997

• 4001 China backs off from Iran - maybe China has pledged to scale down its nuclear cooperation with Iran, but Chinese companies may be unwilling to forgo billions of dollars of export contracts. A profile of China-Iran nuclear and missile cooperation. 1385 words
• 4002 Chinese pledges, U.S. interpretation A comparison of U.S. and Chinese statements on the Washington summit shows that the two sides may have had dramatically different interpretations of China's commitment to cancel nuclear cooperation with Iran. A must for editors who need to get the facts strait 726 words
• 4003 More C-802s. As President Jiang Zemim was touring the United States, China was making a fresh delivery of C-802 missiles to Iran. 261 words
• 4004 Chinese WMD projects in Iran Access the Middle East Data Project's data base on Chinese nuclear, missile, and chemical/biological weapons cooperation with Iran. 793 words
• 4005 Congress threatens action on Russian missile sales Pending sanctions legislation, vigorously opposed by the Clinton administration, would severely punish Russian firms that have helped Iran's ballistic missile programs. 622 words
• 4006 Iran may use NBC weapons, study says A new study from the National Defense University in Washington, DC offers chilling insights to policy planners. 361 words
• 4007 Congress ups the ante on sanctions Total and Gazprom face mounting Congressional anger - and an administration that may be compelled to impose the ILSA sanctions. 627 words
• 4008 Torricelli used by Mujahidin EXCLUSIVE: New Jersey Democratic Robert Torricelli is once again in the soup with the Iranian Mujahidin-e Khalq - but this time, the stakes involve the White House. 778 words
• 4009 Fedayeen occupy Iran Air office Opposition group in Paris protests French collaboration with Tehran. 337 words
• 4010 Mykonos restaurant owner returns to Iran Possibility he may have cooperated with the killers of Kurdish opposition leaders. 173 words
• 4011 More opposition clerics jailed President Khatami's spotty human rights record involves jailed clerics and dissident Kurds. 363 words

   

   

   

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