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...Kennedy School of Government said today it had secured protection for former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami when he visits Harvard on Sunday, one day after Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney ordered all state agencies to refuse requests to provide security for the Muslim cleric...
Khatami’s visit, the first trip of an Iranian leader to the university since the U.S. State Department severed ties with the country in 1979, has also met criticism from within the Harvard community...
...Alexander L. Edelman ’07, chair of the Progressive Jewish Alliance, said that while Khatami is “no friend of Israel,” he supports the ex-Iranian leader’s right to speak...
...Iranian leader’s Harvard speech comes as the United States is seeking punitive action against Iran for failing to meet a United Nations deadline on suspending its uranium enrichment program...
...Lebanon, the task is more daunting; the last war exposed that Israeli intelligence lacks the contacts to penetrate Hizballah as deeply as they have the Palestinian militant outfits. During the campaign in Lebanon, according to various Israeli news reports, Israeli commandos raided a hospital in Baalbek, where an Iranian doctor had supposedly treated Goldwasser and Regev. But no details have surfaced as to whether the commandos reached the Iranian doctor or are close to finding out where the two captives are being held...