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IRAN "Insult" Brings Jail After more than a year of hearings and appeals, Iranian reformist M.P. Hossein Loqmanian was jailed for 10 months for "insulting" the courts. His crime had been to stand up in parliament and denounce the conservative judiciary as undemocratic. The reformists' attempts to introduce democracy in the country, which has been under authoritarian rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, have earned them three landslide election victories ? but also the ire of hard-liners, who have shut down around 50 liberal newspapers and jailed reformists on charges of "insulting" officials and Islam. Iran Special: The Islamic Republic...
...unit, Shayetet 13, swooped down on the Karine A in international waters of the Red Sea on the night of Jan. 3, catching most of the 13 crew members asleep. The Israelis say the crew told them the weapons were loaded onto the Karine A from boats off the Iranian coast in an operation headed by Lebanese Hajj Bassem, an assistant to the notorious terrorist Imad Mughniyah. A leader of the Lebanese militia Hizballah, Mughniyah has close ties to Iran and is blamed by the Americans for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. Israeli intelligence tells...
...guns Israel took off the Tongan-registered freighter Karine A. Then, pressured by the U.S. and the European Union, he ordered an inquiry that blamed three Palestinian officials. That the P.A. was involved was no shock, given the Authority's established record of smuggling arms. But the Iranian angle is something new. Last week senior Israeli officials detailed to Time their evidence of an Iranian connection to the Karine A. If indeed Iran sent arms to the P.A.--which Iran emphatically denied--Arafat would appear now to have a powerful regional backer in his struggle with Israel, a development likely...
...KANDAHAR Before Sept. 11, few knew of Kandahar; few cared about the ravages of civil war and Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Now the world sees the news value in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's tale of a woman crossing the desert incognito to find her sister. Even without the headlines, this Iranian film boasts a visual and emotional magnificence. It has a painter's acute eye for beauty within horror: the gorgeous colors of the burkas that imprison Afghan women; the handsome face of a child in a Taliban school as he expertly assembles a Kalashnikov rifle; the vision of one-legged...
...Kandahar Before Sept. 11, few knew of Kandahar; few cared about the ravages of civil war and Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Now the world sees the news value in Mohsen Makhmalbaf's tale of a woman crossing the desert incognito to find her sister. Even without the headlines, this Iranian film boasts a visual and emotional magnificence. It has a painter's acute eye for beauty within horror: the gorgeous colors of the burkas that imprison Afghan women; the handsome face of a child in a Taliban school as he expertly assembles a Kalashnikov rifle; the vision of one-legged...