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...broader Camp David?style deal seem remote. But Europe would like Bush to throw himself into the treacherous waters of peacemaking - and he just may do so. IRAN Despite Western jitters about Iran getting nukes, there's a strong consensus in Tehran to proceed with nuclear enrichment; the Iranians say it's for peaceful purposes, but the Americans and Europeans worry that the material could be used to develop a bomb. European diplomats have been angered by evidence of Iranian nuclear cheating after previous deals, and Bush aides have been waiting for the election to step up pressure. Nevertheless...
...Prophet Muhammad had long hair. We have no problem with it." NAVID MAJD, spokesman for the Iranian soccer federation, after the country's players were barred from sporting hair bands and sculpted beards, which it deemed overly Western...
...Islamist terrorism, I am not aware of it," an intelligence expert told me. The Iraq-addled Bush White House has issued no marching orders for the broader war on terrorism. How, for example, should intelligence resources be allocated among alQaeda, Hizballah, the Chechens, the Saudi financial networks, the Iranian nuclear program? What are the priorities? Should we use foreign aid to counter the Saudi-funded network of radical Islamist schools, or would the money be better spent buying up the former Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal? Some of these questions were raised by Donald Rumsfeld in a memo last year...
...Iraqi city of Najaf, the prestigious 1,000-year-old home to some of Shi'ism's most prominent teachers of jurisprudence; he has lived there ever since. Najaf's schools were filled with as many Persians as Arabs. Sistani never lost his thick native accent and remains an Iranian citizen, which has made him a target of Arab rivals like al-Sadr who disparage his ethnicity...
...both sides will likely play a waiting game. The U.S. has an election to get through on home soil in November, and then one in Iraq in January. Meanwhile, the Iranians will likely use the leeway of the NPT to the maximum, possibly submitting to extra inspection provisions in exchange for concessions on other fronts after protracted negotiations. If, on the other hand, Tehran is not irrevocably committed to nuclear weapons, it may nonetheless hold out for more attractive political and economic terms - under present circumstances, they may see little gain from desisting on weapons if such a choice leaves...