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...filming, Richard Gere knows how to do drama. In the wake of the deadly protests in Tibet, Gere, a longtime Tibet activist and friend of the Dalai Lama, made a splashy announcement. The Hollywood star declared that "if [the protests] are not handled correctly, yes, we should boycott [the Olympics]. Everyone should boycott...
...exiled Tibetan leadership in order to embarrass Beijing on the eve of its Olympic coming-out party, hoping to internationalize their quest for independence in the way that the Kosovar Albanians have - an outcome China will resist at any cost. The activists may be hoping to provoke an international boycott of the Beijing Olympics as a way of forcing China to deal with their demands, although such a boycott remains extremely unlikely, with most Western governments having moved quickly to squelch any suggestion that they might stay away from the Games. China's centrality to the world economy today...
...Iran's main student opposition group, the former Office to Foster Unity, whose name now translates into ?Islamic Iran?s Organization of the Educated Ones," had declared that neither participation nor a boycott would make any difference, contending, "The elections have been engineered in a way that it doesn't matter how many people participate. Either way, more conservative members will enter parliament...
...Anyone with any connection to the reformists was ... disqualified," says Mostafa Tajzadeh, one of the directors of the United Reformists Coalition (URC) election campaign. "We had a lot of long discussions about this, and, in the end, decided not to boycott the elections." Tajzadeh, who was himself disqualified, explains the reformists' motivation: "If we don't participate, the entire majlis will fall into the hands of the conservatives and the situation will be one of homogeneous despotism. We can't let that happen...
...conservatives' campaigning over the past week, citing the row over the publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in Europe, the third round of U.N. sanctions against Iran, and the conflict in Gaza. In a speech, the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said all those who supported an election boycott - as some reformists whose candidates were barred from running had at first considered to - were "either fooled or supported by foreign interests...