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...Iranian Freedom Fighter...
...Iranian human-rights activist Shirin Ebadi has won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize [Oct. 20]. This award recognizes women's achievements in Iran--something that is refreshing and revolutionary. Ebadi went to jail to protest political repression and domestic violence and fought for women's custody rights in divorce cases (men always get custody of the children). Her achievements in Iran are inspiring because they contradict the stereotype of the oppressed Middle Eastern woman who is not assertive. Being an Iranian female, I am proud that Ebadi has set an example for all Iranian women. She will encourage others...
...promises? Administration skeptics are worried that the deal merely delays, not derails, an eventual confrontation. At the end of last week, Tehran delivered to the IAEA in Vienna a thick, indexed binder containing its "full" declaration detailing the hows and whys of its suspect behavior. The Iranian ambassador to the IAEA, Ali Akbar Salehi, told TIME the report admitted "mistakes" that resulted not from attempts to build weapons but from ignorance of IAEA requirements and a desire to be "discreet" because of the threat of U.S. sanctions. More troubling, he said, the document does not resolve a key issue...
...DIED. VIGEN DERDERIAN, 74, Iranian pop music icon often called the country's Elvis Presley; in Los Angeles. The singer, known to fans by his first name alone, was discovered at the age of 23 in an Iranian nightclub by a programming boss from Radio Iran. In the 1950s and '60s Vigen became a star with a look and a sound similar to Presley's, but was forced to leave Iran after the 1979 Islamic revolution. He continued to perform in the U.S. and Europe...
...Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program, its sponsorship of terrorism and other sore points. None of the issues have come close to being resolved. But Tehran has offered to repatriate some al-Qaeda suspects if the U.S. cracks down on the People's Mujahedin (M.E.K.), a group of Iranian exiles in Iraq who want to overthrow Iran's mullocracy. After complaints from Tehran, the U.S. in August shut down the group's offices in Washington and Los Angeles. But Iran wants the M.E.K.--designated a terrorist group by the Clinton Administration--to be fully disarmed, as President Bush has ordered...