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With an official U.S. delegation by Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., denied entry by Iran??s government, the Boston-based team was among a small group of Americans who traveled to the remote southeastern city to care for the victims of the earthquake, which killed approximately...
...Modaress Training University in Tehran, and demonstrations spread to the provincial cities of Tabriz, Isfahan, Urumiyeh and Hamedan. The protesters called for the state to overturn the death sentence of Hashem Aghajari, a lecturer who said Iranians should not blindly follow the words of clerics. Yesterday, when Iran??s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the judiciary to review Aghajari’s sentence, the students accomplished one of their goals. But they also called for a greater tolerance of free speech and widespread constitutional reforms, demands that remain unfulfilled...
...Modaress Training University in Tehran, and demonstrations spread to the provincial cities of Tabriz, Isfahan, Urumiyeh and Hamedan. The protesters called for the state to overturn the death sentence of Hashem Aghajari, a lecturer who said Iranians should not blindly follow the words of clerics. Yesterday, when Iran??s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the judiciary to review Aghajari’s sentence, the students accomplished one of their goals. But they also called for a greater tolerance of free speech and widespread constitutional reforms, demands that remain unfulfilled...
...violent restrictions of press freedom. A day later the Iranian regime tragically executed six young men who had, according to official government language, “disturbed public order.” In light of this open butchery, the U.N.’s decision not to condemn Iran??s leaders seemed patently absurd—and highly disheartening to that country’s progressive student demonstrators...
...palace by a popular uprising Sunday?) The short answer is that Chavez has not hesitated in the past few years to kowtow to OPEC in keeping oil production down and prices high. The OPEC oil cartel—which includes Venezuela and rogue states such as Libya, Iraq and Iran??sets quotas for its member states to manipulate the market and keep oil revenues as high as possible. Because it takes only one major oil producer breaking ranks and increasing output to send prices plunging, the world market is very sensitive to the political situation in oil producing...