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Politics - national, global, financial and sexual - dominated the festival and its awards. The Golden Lion, the top prize from the jury headed by filmmaker Ang Lee, went to Lebanon, Samuel Maoz's potent memoir of the first Israeli?Lebanon war. Women Without Men, a feminist drama set in Iran during the 1953 U.S.-backed coup that placed Reza Pahlavi on the Peacock Throne, earned the runner-up Silver Lion prize for director Shirin Neshat. Ksenia Rappoport took Best Actress as a Slovenian immigrant with a mysterious agenda in the Italian thriller The Double Hour. And Britain's Colin Firth...
Environmental groups hoping for concrete action on climate change were left disappointed by talks at the Group of 20 summit on Friday. Although world leaders managed to forge some agreement on global warming - despite news of Iran's secret nuclear facility eclipsing most of the discussion at the Pittsburgh summit - greens said little of substance was actually achieved. "They haven't really produced anything that is relevant in terms of active progress," says Kim Carstensen, head of the World Wildlife Fund's Global Climate Initiative. "I'm not that impressed...
...remember correctly, Iran was supportive of the United States' initial reaction in Afghanistan. In fact, you almost went to war with the Taliban government in 1998 if I remember correctly, and you granted us over flight privileges and it was a period if real cooperations between the United States and Iran until the Bush administration changed its mind. How do we get back on course? What specific steps have to be made in order to improve relations between our countries? What steps do we have to make and just to reiterate my editors question, would you be willing to allow...
...done, two tenures in office is sufficient. So, the opportunities have to move. I think that this principle laid out in the constitution is a very wise one, so I will definitely hold up the principles of the constitution and the continuity of those principles. There are individuals in Iran who are very capable and very many of them. There are so many individuals that can come and get hard work done and work even better, so we are not concerned at all about the future...
...help realize collective peace, viable peace, we need collective cooperation and efforts. In this midst the media has an important role to play. Some western country states have in the past few decades not taken a very favorable position vis-a-vis our region and specifically with regards to Iran, and they have adopted stances that at times would've been against Iran's national interest. These have marked bitter historical memories in the nation psyche of Iran as well as the memories of many in our region. To bring about a change of these memories, it is necessary...