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...sinking ship. The last time I moved away from Iran, back in 2002, the country was also in the throes of a crackdown, though nowhere near as all-encompassing as this one. The pretext back then was that George W. Bush had labeled Iran part of an "axis of evil," and when the rhetoric cooled, the regime resumed trying to placate its angry young people. Watching from afar, I will be eager to see how a hard-line government will woo back the vast middle class, alienated by the imposition of a more Islamic social order. In Isfahan angry citizens...
...military appears to have accepted his victory, but it signaled yesterday that it could step in if it ever felt Turkey's separation between religion and state was threatened. Armed forces chief General Yasar Buyukanit warned against "centers of evil that systematically try to corrode the secular nature of the Turkish Republic...
...away, something I'd never done before. I was a good girl - I never skipped school. And as I was walking, the houses got very ominous and foreboding, and I started to think that they were sending me messages. 'Look! See! You must see! You are bad! You are evil!' I didn't hear it as voices; they were thoughts, but I thought they were thoughts put in my head by the houses. It was very scary...
...became very depressed. I totally lost my appetite and lost a huge amount of weight. I thought that I wasn't supposed to speak, because speaking would spread my evil around. Obviously, it's hard to make friends if you can't talk with people, so I was very socially isolated, which was extremely painful. And I had mild paranoid ideas that people were talking about me and laughing at me behind my back, which may have been true, because I looked kind of bizarre walking down the street gesticulating and talking to myself...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...