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...Darius Mehrjui's Iranian film Bemani tells of three women in circumstances that are extreme but not, alas, unusual: an Iraqi who befriends an Iranian soldier and is beheaded by her outraged father; a studious Iranian who doesn't tell her father she's taking pre-med courses and is beaten by him; a third girl hit by her father because she chatted with a shepherd, then forced into a loveless marriage with a rich man who will pay her family's rent. The last two women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Yet the film can also...
...doesn't; Moore is as baffled as the rest of us by the obscenely high U.S. murder rate.) Iran may still be on the U.S. short list of states that support terrorism, but it also supports the most vital national art cinema of the past decade. Last year every Iranian film seemed to be about Afghanistan and its flood of emigrants into the Islamic Republic. This year another threatening neighbor, Iraq, is the focus of anxiety. Dariush Mehrjui's Bemani tells of a young Iraqi woman who befriends an Iranian soldier and is beheaded by her outraged father...
...this so-called “human rights” commission. For example, on April 22 the commission voted 20-19 against a U.S. resolution to censure Iran for political murders, torture, brutal discrimination against minorities and violent restrictions of press freedom. A day later the Iranian regime tragically executed six young men who had, according to official government language, “disturbed public order.” In light of this open butchery, the U.N.’s decision not to condemn Iran’s leaders seemed patently absurd—and highly disheartening to that...
...between its five surrounding states ended in complete disarray. The Caspian's status is still governed by a 1940 agreement between the U.S.S.R. and Iran, and the summit was meant to end a decade of bitter squabbling. But the meeting failed to adopt even a planned declaration after Iranian President Mohammed Khatami walked out and Turkmenistan accused Azerbaijan of intransigence over a disputed oil field. "More problems emerged than expected," admitted Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev...
...tricks. Do not be fooled by those pictures of Hamid Karzai posing with George Bush and Tony Blair. Everyone in Afghanistan knows that real power resides with people like Rashid Dostum, the ethnic Uzbek warlord who controls Mazar-i-Sharif; Ishmael Khan, ruler of Herat and recipient of Iranian tanks and money; and the exiled Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a religious fanatic who currently resides in Iran but who is rumored to be staging a comeback...