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...frequently by relatives and total strangers is not whether I'm having a girl or a boy, but whether I'm having a C-section. Vaginal childbirth is very out these days in Tehran. The procedure is quickly edging out the nose job as the dominant medical trend among Iranians, a people very fond of surgery. No longer the provenance of last-minute complications or doctors' liability fears, Caesarean delivery is viewed here as the modern woman's choice. An Iranian politician I interviewed recently even worked the normalcy of a C-section into a metaphor describing Iran's nuclear...
...Chavez, echoing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also took on the U.N. itself in his speech - calling for nothing less than a complete "refounding" of the body to wrest it from what he called the Americans' inordinate domination. "We [the U.N. members] have become a merely deliberative organ," he complained. "We have no power to make any impact on the terrible situation in the world today." On Thursday, Chavez will continue his New York invasion, visiting Harlem to highlight his program of providing poor Americans with Venezuela-subsidized heating oil - something he started during his U.N. visit last year...
Educated Muslim scholars are right to deny Muhammad’s teachings were violent, but they should be more concerned about their brothers in faith than with folks in Rome, Paris, or Berlin. An Iranian hardliner like Ahmad Khatami opined that Benedict and Bush have “united in order to repeat the Crusades.” If those words do not seem extreme enough, Salih Kapusuz, from the governing Turkish party AKP expressed that the Pope “is going down in history in the same category as leaders such as Hitler and Mussolini...
Extremist Islam is on everybody’s mind thanks to the Sept.11 anniversary and the thwarted plane attacks in Britain just over a month ago. And if this were not enough, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can always be trusted to provide enough spice for any recipe. As he calls for revisionist “scholarly” conferences about the Holocaust (with insulting cartoons to go along), he has repeatedly expressed that the only permanent solution for the Middle East is the “elimination of the Zionist regime...
...Bush's charge that Iran has "nuclear weapons ambitions," for one thing, is not an established fact at the U.N. Iranian leaders insist they have no interest in pursuing nuclear weapons, and simply seek to build all aspects of an atomic energy program that are permitted under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. If they were to do so, of course, they would be well within reach of bomb-making capacity - and that, together with concerns over parts of the program that were undeclared until they were later exposed, has prompted the Security Council to ask Iran to voluntarily refrain from uranium...