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...faced with negotiating a relationship with a new government that reflects limited U.S. influence, and whose leaders enjoy historic ties with Iran. Jaafari's Dawa party, like the SCIRI, spent its exile years based largely in Iran, and while their leaders are careful to distinguish themselves from the Iranian approach to involving the clergy in politics, they nonetheless express a strong kinship with the Iranians. Even the Kurdish presidential nominee, Jalal Talabani, has historically enjoyed good relations with Tehran. While the new government in Iraq is unlikely to mimic Iran's theocracy, it is likely to assume a foreign policy...
...refugees wait in detention, often with damaging pyschological results, for years. Recently released on a temporary protection visa, Farhad doesn't want to give his real name for fear that he might jeopardize his chances of being allowed to live in Australia permanently. But when the 31-year-old Iranian was stopped nearly five years ago with 120 other people in a boat heading for Australia, he says the rough reception from officials convinced him that he'd fled into a situation as intolerable as the one he'd left. Certain he was about to be deported, Farhad feared that...
...immediately under suspicion - Farhard was rejected there, too, and says the refugee review tribunal member hearing his case accused him of lying. What followed was a long legal fight over the tribunal's decision not to accept a letter he had received after his hearing from a senior Iranian cleric who supported Farhad's claim that he'd been a dissident. When Farhad was first put into detention, he thought it would be "two or three months and then I could be released to be a good community member for Australia." It would be four and a half years before...
...invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them." MOHAMMAD KHATAMI, Iranian president, on the 26th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, on pressures from...
...Rising from the Rubble My sincere thanks to all the world's people for their generosity toward Sri Lankan tsunami victims [Jan. 24]. We are especially grateful to Americans. Sri Lankans stuck by the U.S. during the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979 and after the 9/11 attacks. For their part, Americans have always aided us, with little fanfare, in bleak times during the '60s floods and now after the tsunami devastation. We'll always be a friend to the U.S. Bandula Sri Amarasekara Colombo, Sri Lanka...