Word: hashemi
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WOUNDED. AKILA AL-HASHEMI, 50, one of three female members of Iraq's U.S.-backed Governing Council and a leading candidate for the job of Iraq's U.N representative; by a bullet to the abdomen, fired by gunmen near her home in western Baghdad as she was being driven to work; in the first assassination attempt on a member of the interim government. Doctors said al-Hashemi was in critical but stable condition after surgery...
...even though Pyongyang promptly announced the program was proceeding). Even proud Iran was making conciliatory noises. The newspapers in Tehran were hot with argument over a proposed public referendum on whether to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Great Satan. The idea was floated by former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the cleverest politician in the country, one who has positioned himself between the reformers and the mullahs, with links to both camps...
...even though Pyongyang promptly announced the program was proceeding). Even proud Iran was making conciliatory noises. The newspapers in Tehran were hot with argument over a proposed public referendum on whether to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Great Satan. The idea was floated by former President Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the cleverest politician in the country, one who has positioned himself between the reformers and the mullahs, with links to both camps...
...IRAN Warring Words Iran responded angrily to continued U.S. claims that it is developing weapons of mass destruction. One military leader warned of "another Vietnam" if the U.S. struck Iran, and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that the U.S. would find itself in a "bloody swamp." Amid the rhetoric was one sign of detente: after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Iran of trying to destabilize the interim Afghan government, Tehran said it may deport an Afghan warlord who opposes the Kabul regime...
...symbolize that is [having] the British and Iranian Foreign Ministers on the same platform," says a Foreign Office official. Despite Khamenei's stridency, British sources say Straw left talks with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi concluding that Iran would remain neutral during any attack. On Friday former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said, "If the U.S. decides not to impose its own will, we are ready to join the antiterrorism coalition under the umbrella of the United Nations, despite our differences with the United States." Whether Iran acts on words like these depends on complex and competing forces within the country...