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...battle that coincided with a visit by U.S. officials. Interviewed in prison, the sole surviving attacker said he was working for the glory of Allah and later hanged himself with his black cotton belt. There are indications, however, that Ansar's strength may be waning. The Iranian government last November forced it to move back from the Iranian border, robbing the group of the cover of high mountains there. U.S. and Turkish military officers have investigated the front line and reportedly come away unimpressed. A senior Turkish official dismissed Ansar as a "cult...
...prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 1995 for her search for “a synthesis of Islam and the modern,’’ more than 200 German intellectuals protested her receipt of the award, citing her reported support of the Iranian government’s death sentence against British author Salman Rushdie...
...first gulf War, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker issued a warning to Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz: If Iraq attempted to use unconventional weapons against allied forces, the U.S. would proceed to Baghdad and destroy Saddam's regime. Though the Iraqis used chemical weapons against Iranian forces and rebellious Kurds, Baker's promise was enough to persuade Saddam to hold back during Desert Storm. Now that the current Administration has declared that regime change is its goal, he may not feel so gun-shy. Western military officials and longtime Saddam watchers suggest he won't uncork his deadliest weapons...
...postwar pro-American government across its border. But Iran fought a bitter war with Iraq from 1980 to '88 and would gleefully watch Saddam Hussein fall. A defanged Iraq would also make Iran the undisputed kingpin in the gulf. Tehran could conceivably offer the U.S. the right to use Iranian territory to launch search-and-rescue missions, as it did during the war in Afghanistan...
ROWLEY: Right now, I would say that Iranian professor [Hashem Aghajari] who has been sentenced to death [on charges of blasphemy after he gave a speech calling on people not to follow religious leaders blindly]. [But in the past, it was my maternal] grandparents. They didn't have running water, a bathroom or indoor plumbing until my grandfather was 93. My grandma was orphaned at 11 and went to work to support her brothers and sisters. And my father was orphaned at age 2. He became the town's postman and walked 14 miles a day delivering the mail...