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	Kamal Kharrazi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kamal Kharrazi (Persian: کمال خرازی) (born December 1, 1944 in Tehran as Ali-Naghi Kharrazi علی‌نقی خرازی), was the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs as appointed by President Mohammad Khatami, serving for eight years from August 20, 1997 to August 24, 2005.
		Kharrazi was a founding member of the Islamic Research Institute in London.
		Kharrazi has held a number of governmental, diplomatic and academic posts and headed Iranian delegations at numerous international conferences, most importantly at the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kamal_Kharrazi (396 words)

	Iran News - Iran urges Iraq to comply with Security Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kharrazi, speaking at a news conference with his Norwegian counterpart Jan Petersen, said Baghdad must be persuaded to cooperate with UN arms inspectors to disprove Washington's charges that it had weapons of mass destruction.
		Kharrazi said Iran believes that war on Iraq should be avoided, stressing that Tehran is worried about the consequences of war in the region, that include instability, insecurity and collateral economic damage.
		Kharrazi also said that Iran, in case of a war, would not join an anti-Iraq coalition, stressing that Iran has never agreed to let the US and British planes use its airspace against its western neighbor.
	iranmania.com /News/ArticleView?NewsCode=14089&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs (955 words)

	Iran News - Kharrazi: Iran condemns all forms of terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Archived picture -- Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi: The mono-dimensional and unilateral approach, that is merely military one, might repel some threats and bring calm and satisfaction as a revengeful reaction against terrorist measures but will never be a decisive and strong approach for campaign against terrorism.
		Kharrazi said the mono-dimensional and unilateral approach, that is merely military one, might repel some threats and bring calm and satisfaction as a revengeful reaction against terrorist measures but will never be a decisive and strong approach for campaign against terrorism.
		Kharrazi said Iran is for the sort of campaign that does not make a distinction between good and bad terrorism.
	iranmania.com /News/ArticleView?NewsCode=18281&NewsKind=Current+Affairs (606 words)

	World Economic Forum Knowledge Navigator - Iranian FM calls for OPEC coordination to raise oil prices; says Iran is ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kharrazi added that foreign policy is based on the principle of consensus within Iran's leadership.
		Asked about Iran's relations with Afghanistan, Kharrazi said four important conditions remain a prerequisite for establishing ties with the Taliban: the release of Iranian prisoners, the return of the bodies of Iranians killed in Mazar-i-Sharif, the return of seized Iranian transportation equipment and the arrest of those responsible for the killing of Iranians.
		Kharrazi argued that in an ever turbulent region, Iran has proven to be an island of stability.
	www.weforum.org /site/knowledgenavigator.nsf/Content/_S265?open (519 words)

	Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi talks to the press
		Kharrazi said there is absence of a national resolve in the U.S. administration in its conduct with the Islamic Republic of Iran and that's why the wall of mistrust still remained between the two countries.
		Kharrazi said the mere fact that Nouri's trial was in open camera was the sign of reformation and developments in Iran.
		Kharrazi said Washington had maintained its sanctions against Iran but, he observed, once sanctions were lifted perhaps Iranians and americans would be able to benefit from the consular services of each other's country in their own homeland.
	www.payvand.com /news/99/dec/1003.html (1375 words)

	BS_18_00 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kamal Kharrazi was confirmed to serve in the cabinet of the newly elected President Khatami as the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran by the Iranian parliament on 20 August 1997.
		Kharrazi was a founding member of the Islamic Research Institute in London and a member of the American Association of University Professors.
		Kharrazi was born in Tehran on 1 December 1944.
	www.unescap.org /unis/BS_18_00.htm (354 words)

	Senior US senator Joseph Biden meets Iranian FM Kamal Kharrazi in Davos
		Senior US Senator Joseph Biden criticized the American government's policies on Iran during a meeting with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on the fringes of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, IRNA reported.
		Kharrazi had a 90-minute meeting with Biden in a rare high-level contact between Tehran and Washington, which have held no official relations since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in full view of reporters in a lounge at the World Economic Forum.
		"Kharrazi, in turn, said 'the Iranian nation has suffered gravely from the antagonistic steps of the American government and so long as these wrong policies continue, there will be no ground for dialogue and improving the two countries' relations'," the ministry said.
	www.payvand.com /news/04/jan/1173.html (494 words)

	IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER KAMAL KHARRAZI RESIGNED (Development)
		Sadeq Kharrazi, the Foreign Affairs Deputy for Research and Educational Affairs and a nephew of the minister, dispatched by Mr.
		The younger Kharrazi resigned immediately after the press revealed of his meetings with the Americans in the divided Island of Cyprus.
		Kharrazi to resign, but the un-impressive, un-charismatic and austere looking Foreign Minister was under increasing criticism and attacks from the reformists, both at the Majles and the press, for his weak handling of the nation’s foreign policy, particularly the set backs Iran suffered in Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Caspian Sea.
	www.iran-press-service.com /articles_2002/May_2002/kharrazi_resign_2lead_27502.htm (627 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On 29 December, Kamal Kharrazi defended his record on protecting Iran's interests in the oil-rich Caspian under blistering attack from parliamentary deputies.
		Majlis member Abdullah Sohrabi quizzed Kharrazi aggressively, saying, "Explain why your diplomacy has not been active." The soft-spoken minister was peppered with prepared questions from a group of 86 lawmakers, who had summoned him to appear.
		Kharrazi was severely criticized during and after the session for not seeking 50 percent of the Caspian as the only other bordering nation before the Soviet collapse.
	www.rferl.org /features/2003/01/03012003170556.asp (886 words)

	Shia News \| Americas \| Israel's state terrorism must be stopped:Kharrazi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said in New York that fighting terrorism cannot be comprehensive without addressing Israeli state terrorism.
		Concerning the process of disarmament, Kharrazi said that in spite of certain positive developments including the outcome of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 2000 Review Conference, it is unfortunate that under present circumstances no promising outlook is in sight.
		Kharrazi thanked the large number of the Non-Aligned members who co-sponsored the resolution on Global Agenda of Dialogue of Civilizations, adopted by the General Assembly on November 4.
	www.shianews.com /hi/americas/news_id/0000252.php (666 words)

	Iran Says Nuclear Plans on Hold
		Kharrazi's spokesman had said on Tuesday that Iran was going to resume part of the program.
		But in a wide-ranging interview Wednesday, Kharrazi said that the announcement should be interpreted as "a message" that Iran is frustrated and wants to see results from the negotiations over the future of its nuclear program.
		Kharrazi said the machines would enrich uranium to a level sufficient only for operating power plants and would operate under 24-hour surveillance by U.N. inspectors.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/04/AR2005050402254.html (857 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Profile: Kamal Kharrazi
		Kamal Kharrazi has belonged to the Iranian political establishment since the early days of the Islamic Republic.
		From 1989 to 1997 Mr Kharrazi served as ambassador to the United Nations, representing Iran at international conferences.
		Other concerns were Mr Kharrazi's handling of talks on sharing the resources of the Caspian Sea, as well as his "failure to appoint senior diplomats on merit".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3034816.stm (410 words)

	Online NewsHour: Tensions Grow Over Iran's Nuclear Goals -- September 27, 2004
		KAMAL KHARRAZI: As a matter of fact, the international inspectors are frequently visiting all of our sites in different places.
		KAMAL KHARRAZI: The problem is political motivation of the United States to seize this opportunity to put pressure on Iran.
		KAMAL KHARRAZI: No, we are a member to NPT and we have worked a lot to strengthen NPT, and we are committed to it, as well as the safeguard, as well as additional protocol.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec04/iran_9-27.html (1658 words)

	Iran envoy to visit NZ
		Officially, Kharrazi was here to reforge political and economic links, left hanging after Iran's Ministry of Agriculture and Jihad scrubbed 19 international agreements, including one with this country, two years ago.
		Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi has given a categorical assurance to the Prime Minister that his country's nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes.
		Dr Kharrazi - who is on a two-day visit - last night met senior politicians at a time when Iran has been failing to co-operate with requests from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog investigating the possibility Tehran is hiding a nuclear site.
	www.geocities.com /kurdistanz/IranNZ.htm (3171 words)

	JS Online: Getting Iran out of the axis
		Prospects for better times between the United States and revolutionary Iran seemed to be brightening in the heat of the Afghan war; but they have since gone into the tank, the big push having been delivered by President Bush in his State of the Union address.
		The Iranian foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, has suggested a possible way to revive them, and his suggestion deserves to be taken seriously.
		Kharrazi has proposed a way to deal at least with the refugee issue.
	www.jsonline.com /news/editorials/feb02/19740.asp?format=print (449 words)

	Catholic World News : Iran seeks greater Christian-Muslim cooperation
		VATICAN (CWN) -- Iran's minister of foreign affairs, Kamal Kharrazi, has called for "deeper collaboration among the different monotheistic religions." The Iranian leader offered his comments after meetings at the Vatican yesterday with Pope John Paul II (bio - news) and Archbishop Jean- Louis Tauran, the Holy See's top foreign-policy official.
		Kamal Kharrazi delivered a personal letter to Pope John Paul from the new Iranian president, Mohammed Khatami.
		Kharrazi said that he also spoke with the Pope about religious freedom, and particularly about the rights of Christians living in Iran.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=6845 (316 words)

	Kharrazi: EU human rights report on Iran "irrelevant" - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kamal Kharrazi slammed a recent British report on human rights in Iran as "irrelevant".
		Kharrazi said that the British report was devoid of any value because it was prepared for political and publicity objectives.
		Kharrazi also said that Iran will issue its own report on human rights violations in other countries, including EU states.
	www.aljazeera.com /cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=9284 (632 words)

	SIPA News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In what Dean Lisa Anderson called an historic occasion, Kamal Kharrazi, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, defended his country's reputation before a packed audience in the Kellogg Center at the School of International and Public Affairs.
		The visit of Kamal Kharrazi, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to SIPA marked the first public address by an Iranian official to an American audience since 1979.
		Kharrazi said Iran's foreign policy opposes "occupation, hegemony, humiliation, and aggression." And he stressed that Iran wishes to promote regional cooperation in the Caspian Sea Basin, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Persian Gulf.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/sipa/PUBS/SIPA_NEWS/FALL97/article10.html (556 words)

	Iran supports India-Pakistan peace bus: Kharrazi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This idea is not only meant to protect bilateral interests but seeks in general to maintain the interests of all developing countries, he said in a visit to the future site of India’s Islamic center, which is under construction in New Delhi.
		During his stay in the country, Kharrazi also signed two memorandums of understanding with his Indian counterpart Natwar Singh.
		Kharrazi referred to the Iraqi elections as a positive development that could lead to the establishment of an elected government in Iraq.
	www.mehrnews.ir /en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=159738 (178 words)

	Irans FM Kamal Kharrazi steps down - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi has put an end to media speculation that he would serve as foreign minister in Iran’s new government by announcing his resignation Sunday.
		The new foreign minister should be selected from the new and younger political generation,” the 61-year-old Kharrazi told state television.
		There was rife speculation by the media that in order to continue the foreign policy trend, the president-elect, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, would move to reappoint Kharrazi for at least the initial phase of his presidential term.
	www.aljazeera.com /cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=9343 (525 words)

	CBC News: Iran to press ahead with nuclear fuel plans: official (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs Kamal Kharrazi speaks during a UN conference, Tuesday.
		Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi made the declaration during an address to the UN conference on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
		Kharrazi also said nuclear-armed countries such as the United States should offer non-nuclear states a legally binding guarantee they will not be subject to nuclear attack.
	www.cbc.ca /storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/05/03/iran-nuclear050503.html (268 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Iran: Nuclear programme to continue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Addressing a UN conference to review the 1970 Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on Tuesday also accused Washington of endangering world peace.
		He said it was wrong to limit "access to peaceful nuclear technology to an exclusive club of technologically advanced states under the pretext of non-proliferation".
		Kharrazi also attacked Israel, saying its assumed nuclear arsenal "has endangered regional and global peace and security".
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/8F033997-D797-4D0A-BCF6-845843099C40.htm (322 words)

	Kharrazi: Iran doesn’t take Bush’s threats seriously - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kharrazi also challenged U.S. and Iraqi officials to prove their allegations that his country is interfering in Iraq’s internal affairs.
		On Thursday, Kharrazi told journalists in Syria, which faces similar accusations from the U.S. and Iraq, that these charges were meant to “evade reality instead of discussing the crisis and trying to find solutions for it”.
		Kharrazi also dismissed Jordanian allegations that Iran plans to build a "Shiite crescent" including Syria, Lebanon and Iraq; nations with large Shiite populations, and said that these accusations "should not be taken seriously."
	www.aljazeera.com /me.asp?service_ID=6569 (794 words)

	SalamIran Magazine- February-99, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kharrazi said due to lack of time no delegation has been dispatched to Amman to take part in the funeral of the late King Hussein, but the Iranian ambassador to Amman has taken part in the ceremony on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, he said.
		Asked about Kharrazi's refraining from giving lecture at institute for foreign relations in France during his recent trip there, Kharrazi said it is an internationally accepted norm that when a visiting minister is going to give a lecture at a gathering, the host country should guarantee the security of the meeting.
		The Iranian foreign minister said with reference to the scheduled visit to Tehran of the German minister, hombakh, that his visit to the Iranian capital is a token of the interest of the German government to mend and upgrade relations with Iran.
	www.salamiran.org /Magazine/BackIssues/February99/Kharrazi_news.html (1115 words)

	KAMAL KHARRAZI MEETS US SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN AT DAVOS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kharrazi had "certainly" the authorization from the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameneh’i.
		Iranian analysts and Western diplomats said the meeting between Biden, the Senator that suggested boosting the power of Iranian media opposed to the Islamic Republic, proposing a 50 million US Dollars financial assistance, and Kharrazi is a first step in the long and bumpy road to normalization of relations between the two nations.
		"That Biden and Kharrazi did not hide their meeting from journalists shows that the time of hide and seek and secret talks between Iranians and Americans is over", Mr.
	iran-press-service.com /articles_2004/Jan_04/iran_usrelations_25104.htm (585 words)

	The Daily Star - Politics - Iran denies destabilizing Iraq, warns of civil war
		Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, speaking to reporters during a visit to Syria, which has faced similar charges from the United States and Iraq, said such accusations were meant to "evade reality instead of discussing the crisis and trying to find solutions for it."
		Kharrazi's comments come amid claims by a senior Iraqi official saying his country has photographs of Syrian officials with guerrillas who have been fighting U.S.-led forces.
		Speaking to reporters, Kharrazi said: "Holding elections that bring representatives of the people to power would lead to the speeding up of the withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq.
	www.dailystar.com.lb /article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=11282 (809 words)

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