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...loses controversial bid for a stake in TV station, says he only wanted to spare viewers more David Letterman reruns MICHAEL KOPPER Enron exec pleads guilty to money laundering and agrees to give back $12 million in illicit gains as soon as the spin cycle is finished ALI RAFII Iranian director banned from theater because a character in one of his plays sips wine onstage. Next: breathalyzer tests for Iranian poets...
...when Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal revealed that Iran, one of U.S. President George W. Bush's three arch-enemies, had handed over 16 Saudi Arabians who were allegedly members of al-Qaeda. The 16 men had fled to Iran to escape war in Afghanistan. The Iranian authorities knew that information gained from the men would be handed to America, said Saud. CHINA Political Shrinks China has revived the use of psychiatry for repression, said Human Rights Watch, a non-governmental group based in New York City. China's abuse of psychiatry to detain and institutionalize its political...
...than Iran. For many countries in the region an attack on Saddam is a lose-lose scenario, but Iran's stakes are more mixed. Tehran has an economic interest in maintaining the status quo, since the sanctions against Iraqi oil bring investment Iran's way. But Baghdad hosts the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq, which routinely stages raids across the border into Iran. And Iranian reformers would regard a more democratic regime in Iraq as a boost to their own hopes for political change - though the country's hard-line conservative clerics would oppose it for exactly the same...
...public, at least, Iranian officials oppose a possible U.S. campaign. "We don't agree on striking Iraq, let alone providing services to those who seek such a strike," Iran's Vice President for Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Mohammed Ali Abtahi said earlier this month. Tehran is also hesitant to condone U.S. military action, since President Bush includes Iran in the "axis of evil." Why help prosecute the "war on terrorism" when you might be the next target? But in Washington, a Pentagon official says the question for the U.S. is not whether Iran would help a U.S. campaign against Iraq...
...security establishment. Iraq has responded to the potential threat by seeking improved ties with Iran. According to a report published on a website linked to the Islamic Iran Participation Front, Iran's leading reformist party, Saddam's son Qusai Hussein recently met with a deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The Foreign Ministry denied a meeting took place, but the report states that Qusai offered to swap members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq wanted by Iran for some of that country's Shahob-3 missiles, which could hit Israel, and a guarantee of Iranian humanitarian aid in the event...