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- France released Massoud Hendi, an Iranian convicted of involvement in the assassination of former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar in 1991, after serving only four years of a 10-year jail sentence. (Reuters, 8/1/98)
- Argentina's Supreme Court rejected an Italian extradition request for right-wing extremist Augusto Cauchi, 47, a suspect in the 1980 bombing of the Bologna train station that killed 85 people and injured 200 Italy's worst terrorist bombing. (Reuters, 8/14/98)
- Marking the highest-level French visit to Iran in seven years, French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine met with Iranian President Mohammed Khatami and discussed French- Iranian nuclear cooperation. (Ha'aretz, 8/24/98)
- Britain agreed to upgrade diplomatic relations with Iran amid confusion over the status of the Iranian edict calling for the death of Salman Rushdie. (The International Herald Tribune, 9/28/98)
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