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...sample of outlets and found that only about 5% of reports took a positive stance on the election's legitimacy; around 36% treated it negatively. Schatz found that leading Arab TV stations were overwhelmingly positive about the election's legitimacy. "Europe has been quite patronizing," says Rouzbeh Pirouz, an Iranian-born researcher at London's Foreign Policy Centre. "There were suggestions that democracy is idealistic rubbish, promoted by people with no idea of what the region needs. I hope now that Europeans can recognize that there is much more of an appetite for democracy than they imagined." Le Monde...
...Allawi does not expect to win a majority, or even a plurality of the vote. To stay in power, he appears to be attempting to trade on fears of clerical and Iranian influence in the UIA and even hoping to cherry-pick allies from within the improbably broad Shiite coalition. The goal would be to use the provisions of the Transitional Administrative Law (TAL) governing the process to parlay a minority share of the vote into a leading role in government. That's because the TAL, drawn up by U.S. administrator Paul Bremer, essentially requires the support of two thirds...
...claimed vindication for his Iraq strategy in the spectacle of millions of Iraqis braving terror and intimidation to go to the polls, the real author of Sunday's election -Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani - confined himself to a simply thanking voters for turning out, and expressing regret that his own Iranian birth prevented him from joining them. It may be easily forgotten in the post-election spin that Sunday's vote was not the Bush administration's idea-quite the contrary. The U.S. had never intended for Iraqis to democratically choose the body that would write their new constitution; Washington...
...this pressure from the Iranian-born Ayatollah-certainly an unlikely Tom Paine figure -that forced the administration to scrap its own plans for Iraq and agree to hold elections by the end of January 2005. Still, once the decision was made, President Bush stuck to his guns despite repeated entreaties at home and abroad-and from a number of Iraqis that had worked closely with Washington-to postpone the poll. And the election could mark a major turning point for the U.S. mission in Iraq...
Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003), a loosely autobiographical story of a girl growing up during the Iranian revolution, pushed its author into the front ranks of comic-book artists. Her follow-up, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (2004), solidified her position. Born in Iran, she lives in Paris, where she is busy on a number of fronts, including adapting Persepolis into an animated movie. In April, she will release a provocative nonfiction comic book, Embroideries, that explores the sex lives of Iranian women. Her career is flourishing, but she didn...