Word: guardians
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...that Iran’s Guardian Council has kicked more than 2000 reformist candidates off the ballot for this month’s parliamentary elections, this bind between sticking to ideals and satisfying the demands of pragmatism is even more acute. Such a flagrant disregard for the democratic process should not go unchecked. But the U.S. cannot stand alone and expect to do any good; America’s voice should be one of many objecting to Iran’s anti-democratic behavior. President Bush should leave his undue pride on the doorstep and approach the United Nations...
...year’s State of the Union Address, it is not surprising that many Iranians dislike the United States. The president’s unnecessarily overblown talk of American crusades against Islamic terrorism didn’t help, either. A Security Council declaration condemning Iran’s Guardian Council might get the message across to a few Iranians that would otherwise have blown off a purely American objection. Second, going to the U.N. would also help the United States regain a little of its credibility lost after the Iraq war. Bush should be trying to buck the image...
...make the facility secure from militant animal-rights protesters - led the university to declare that it could not afford to "build Fort Knox." Electoral Impasse IRAN President Mohammed Khatami said that efforts to resolve the crisis over parliamentary elections had reached a dead end after the hard-line Guardian Council refused to rescind bans on thousands of mainly reformist candidates. Officials had called for the election to be postponed, but the Council refused. In from the Cold LIBYA The U.S. praised Libya for making "real progress" toward fulfilling its commitment to dismantle its unconventional weapons program, announcing that...
...pirate copies insist that doing so has no effect on their legitimate movie-buying or theatergoing habits. But it would be foolish for Hollywood to ignore the grim prophecy of the music industry--where album sales have dropped 16% since 2000. Right now, the movie industry's guardian angel is slow technology. Seasoned downloaders on a broadband connection generally need eight hours or more to download a film. But 18 months from now, it may take only 2 1/2 hours, according to calculations by BigChampagne. Eventually, "if you can download a movie with sophisticated sight and sound in seconds...
...Bush Administration's "Axis Of Evil" list and under international scrutiny for its suspected nuclear-weapons program, the last thing Iran's supreme leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, needs right now is another diplomatic and political contretemps. So when he met with the hard-line clerics of the powerful Guardian Council last week, he first thanked his "dear brothers" for their hard work--and then asked his underlings to reconsider their Jan. 11 decision to bar hundreds of candidates, including 80 incumbent M.P.s, from parliamentary elections next month. Otherwise, he warned, Iran might dissolve in a "chaos of disagreement." With...