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...underscores his domestic political intention. Previous diplomatic initiatives from Iran's leaders suggest that they don't seriously imagine that Washington will alter its support for Israel, but Khamenei, by citing one of the ideological pillars of the Islamic Revolution (hostility to "the Zionist regime"), was in effect admonishing Iranian leaders to keep the U.S. at arm's length. (The Supreme Leader's efforts to discredit the U.S. initiative by invoking Washington's ties with Israel could have been helped by Israeli President Shimon Peres' issuing a scolding New Year's message of his own to Iran's people hours...
...flap underscores an emerging political trend. Since 9/11, polls have consistently shown that most Muslims do not want either an Iranian-style theocracy or a Western-style democracy. They want a blend, with clerics playing an advisory role in societies, not ruling them. As a consequence, Islamist parties are now under intense scrutiny. "Islamists, far from winning sweeping victories, are struggling to maintain even the modest gains they made earlier," says a recent survey by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In Iraq's recent elections, for example, secular parties solidly trumped the religious parties that had fared well four...
...After Moussavi's term ended, the post of Prime Minister was abolished. Moussavi exited politics and went into what has in the Iranian media been referred to as "20 years of silence." In those years, Moussavi committed himself mostly to cultural affairs, including his career as a painter. Now, in order to be a serious contender, Moussavi will need to attract young voters, many of whom are too young to remember his premiership. In an editorial on Rooz Online, 32-year-old Masih Alinejad asks where the former Premier was during all "those years in which the young generation suffered...
...asked others, and they said, "There's no detention for that." So that's kind of an excuse.' REZA SABERI, father of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, who was reportedly arrested in Tehran for buying a bottle of wine and was last heard from...
...should not have illegally sought to gather information and news in Iran.' Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman HASSAN GHASHGHAVI, saying the former BBC reporter's press accreditation had been revoked since...