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...days ago, veteran Iranian filmmaker Manijeh Hekmat resolved her dilemma over the parliamentary elections, and began organizing support for embattled reformist candidates. Whether to participate or ignore the poll has been a tricky question for many reformist-leaning Iranians: On the one hand, they have become apathetic toward elections managed in a way that has made inevitable a victory by conservative candidates; on the other hand, they fear that their inaction could return a uniformly conservative majlis, or parliament. For Hekmat and like-minded colleagues in the film industry, the latter outcome could only prolong the dark clouds that hang...
...Kennedy School and co-author of “Plan B for Iran: What If Nuclear Diplomacy Fails?” Burns, though, highlighted the absolute necessity of fully pursuing a diplomatic solution to conflicts between Iran, Israel, and the rest of the world. “The Iranians must learn that when they say things, people listen,” Burns said, referring to numerous comments from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for Israel’s demise. Despite his support for diplomacy, Burns was largely pessimistic about the possibility of face-to-face talks, noting numerous times that...
...greatest boon to the regime's get-out-the-vote effort, however, may have come from an unlikely quarter: President Bush, who last week expressed the hope that the Iranian people would stay away from the polls. That news is more likely to inflame nationalist passions and swell the turnout. So, while large-scale disqualification of opposition candidates mean that the results won't hold too many surprises, voter turnout still could...
...more traditional diplomacy. Despite the heated tensions between the U.S. and Iran these days, the two countries' scientific communities have enjoyed an increasingly active partnership since 1999. The program operates with the quiet blessings of departments of State and Treasury, even though the latter recently declared part of the Iranian government, the Revolutionary Guards, to be a terrorist organization...
...October, Joseph Taylor, a Princeton physicist and Nobel Laureate, lectured before a large Iranian university audience and was lavished with media attention fit for a celebrity. Five Iranian scientists who specialize in food-borne diseases spent three weeks this past November touring U.S. institutions, coast to coast...