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...needn't stand in the block-long queues for illuminating movie chat. You could simply flag a cab. One Toronto taxi driver-we'll call him Mohsen-launched into a passionate lecture on the state of Iranian cinema, listing the names of Iranian directors who had new work on show. "Of course the master is Kiarostami," he said, as if that name would be as familiar to his passengers as Spielberg...
...Iranian cinema has been investigating hard truths for more than a decade; that's why it's the favorite international cinema of critics and enlightened cab drivers alike. But not always of Iranian censors. Abolfazl Jalili, director of the wonderful coming-of-age drama Abjad, was told he could not leave his country to attend the Venice and Toronto festivals. Set in the late 1970s, Abjad is about a teenager (clearly a stand-in for the director) torn between artistic ambitions and the pressures of his parents and the new Islamic Iran. Since art is personified by a pretty neighbor...
...three men hailing a taxi late last Wednesday near Sulaimaniyah, a city in northern Iraq close to the Iranian border, didn't look like locals. They wore long, dark beards, for one thing and, though it was past midnight, didn't know where they were going. They first told the driver to take them into the city, then changed their minds and asked to be driven to a secluded suburb. Then they pulled guns on the driver and forced him out. "Do not look back," one of the strangers said, before speeding off. In any other part of the world...
...prove its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, or risk being referred to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. In the past six months, IAEA inspectors discovered a series of anomalies in Iran's purportedly peaceful program, including weapons-grade uranium particles in centrifuges at a civilian facility. Iranian officials rejected the deadline as a violation of their sovereignty. New SARS Fears SINGAPORE A medical research student became the first person to test positive for SARS since the WHO declared the global epidemic of the disease over in July. The flu-like illness infected more than 8,400 people...
...also deeply affected as an American. I have watched a gang of governors degrade the value of liberty and human life by denying both citizens and foreigners the constitutional rights with which all human beings—not just Americans—must be endowed. As a second-generation Iranian and a descendent of a pilgrim from the Mayflower, I am embittered by the attacks of the hijackers and the current administration on this nation...