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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Many Happy Returns, Twelfth Imam! The Mahdi, an imam who happens to be Ahmadinejad's favorite, has become the object of frenzied and government-nurtured worship

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Iran's Revolution Created 'Muslim Lite' | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

...Many Happy Returns, Twelfth Imam! The Mahdi, an imam who happens to be Ahmadinejad's favorite, has become the object of frenzied and government-nurtured worship

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paranoid in Tehran | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...Many Happy Returns, Twelfth Imam! The Mahdi, an imam who happens to be Ahmadinejad's favorite, has become the object of frenzied and government-nurtured worship

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nation of Holocaust Deniers? | 10/2/2006 | See Source »

...Many Happy Returns, Twelfth Imam! The Mahdi, an imam who happens to be Ahmadinejad's favorite, has become the object of frenzied and government-nurtured worship

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You've Come Only a Little Way, Baby | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

...everyone is aware of this in advance. An unsuspecting friend of mine tried to register his newborn daughter as Juliette Farah, and was told this was "impossible." After a frustrating back and forth during which only the word "impossible" was repeated, he finally told the clerk that "Juliette was Imam Reza's mother." This mocking invocation of a Shi`ite religious figure was not appreciated, and my friend was asked to leave the building (his daughter ended up simply as "Farah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You've Come Only a Little Way, Baby | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

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