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...denied a visa to renowned Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami, forcing him to cancel a U.S. tour—which included a stop at Harvard—to debut his new film...
Since there are no U.S. embassies in Tehran, Iranian citizens must apply in other countries to gain U.S. visas...
More recently, seeking a way to reach out to the U.S. that would pass the scrutiny of his nation's dogmatic clerics, moderate Iranian President Muhammad Khatami proposed a "dialogue of civilizations," with Abraham as common ground, in 1998. (The U.N.'s Kofi Annan subsequently adopted the gesture.) Observers assumed Khatami was crafting a smoke screen for political talks. But the former professor of Eastern and Western philosophy seems to regard Abraham as a mascot for his comparatively humanistic, open-minded brand of Islam...
...contrarian when so much attention on bin Laden and his followers in the past year has finally granted them the stature they crave. And their failure was by no means a given. Not so long ago, the jihadists appeared to be moving from one success to another: first the Iranian revolution in 1979, then the successful guerrilla war that forced the Soviet army from Afghanistan in 1989. But in Saudi Arabia following the Gulf War, for example, a rupture appeared between moderate Islamists--those of the pious middle classes imbued with conservatism--and the more radical movements that view...
...placed in a hole and covered with soil, he up to his waist and she up to a line above her breasts." Court-appointed officials or ordinary citizens then pelt the accused with stones large enough to cause pain but not large enough to kill immediately. Last year Iranian newspapers reported that Maryam Ayoubi, 30, was stoned to death in Tehran for murdering her husband and having an affair with a younger man. Another woman was stoned to death for appearing in a pornographic video...