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...your article "Tehran's Game," about what the Iranian government is up to these days [WORLD, Feb. 4]: People here in Iran do not necessarily fall into the two categories of hard-liner (conservative) and pro-Western (reformist). There are those who smell a rat in respect to both factions. The majority of Iranians are fed up with the demagogues and yearn for true democracy in our country. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Tehran...
...history of “Nightline” reveals a continued commitment to covering pressing domestic and international issues and to producing in-depth journalism. It began as a program devoted to nightly updates on the Iranian hostage situation in 1979. Due to its success, “Nightline” continued to run and became the highlight of ABC’s news programming. Over the last two decades, Ted Koppel and the staff of “Nightline” have consistently covered worthwhile subjects in innovative ways. In the 1980s, the show hosted influential debates exploring apartheid...
There may be more to it than that. A Western diplomat in Kabul says intelligence reports indicate that Iranian agents have been seen around Khost--far to the east of where they were thought to have been most active--buying off tribal commanders in a deliberate effort to undermine Karzai. That's why the Americans thought there were "bad guys" in the region. But nobody supposes that Karzai can demand the application of American force against his rivals whenever he feels like it. "We keep telling [the government], 'Don't cry wolf,'" says a European official in Kabul. "They...
...come to the Hajj in ships. The rest, about 80%, arrive by air at a massive terminal near Jeddah. Saudi authorities are always keen to pick out drug smugglers and thieves; this year they are more determined than ever to prevent any terrorists from slipping in. (In 1987, Iranian pilgrims went on an anti-U.S. riot that caused more than 400 deaths.) An American security firm specializing in biometric face identification has been hired to scan the irises of some pilgrims; a French company has the contract to digitally record their fingerprints. Intelligence operatives mingle with the crowds...
...wants Iran to end Hekmatyar's activities. And Iran's reformist elected government appears inclined to comply. They shut down his offices two weeks ago and the country's top foreign policy body, the Supreme National Security Council, voted last week to expel Hekmatyar from Iran. But Iranian media reports suggested the delay in implementing that decision resulted from urgent appeals from Washington and Kabul to hold off on expelling him. The Iranian daily Qods recently quoted an official source saying that "Karzai has asked Tehran to keep Hekmatyar in Iran so that Kabul is always informed about his whereabouts...