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...Times appears curiously unfazed by the idea, listing the reasons why the U.S. may be tempted to launch an attack right now, including the favorable climate of American public opinion, the winding down of the Afghan campaign and the fact that winter doesn't preclude such a campaign. The Iranian paper simply notes that if such an attack is under consideration, "it will be necessary for the regional countries to coordinate their policies with the White House and make the required arrangements in this regard." (Then again, they fought an eight-year war against Saddam, didn't they...
...Still reeling from the sight of the cleric's corpse falling into the street, one of Shirazi's daughters-in-law said local authorities prevented his transfer to a better hospital in Tehran shortly after his stroke. "After this we suspect everything," she said. The next day, few Iranians knew such a dramatic scene had transpired. State television broadcast orderly scenes from the funeral procession, showing supporters in the unlikely pose of hoisting photos of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who sent a message of condolence to Shirazi's family. Iranian newspapers reported nothing of the disturbance in Qom, and made...
...though, according to Palestinian security officials, Hamas has acquired a potent new conventional weapon. Some months ago, according to these sources, Iranian-backed operatives of the Lebanese militant group Hizballah bought or stole a North Korean-designed rocket from Syrian soldiers and passed it on to Hamas. The weapon was smuggled into the Gaza Strip, where a special Hamas engineering unit was set up to replicate it. At the end of October, Hamas launched the first of its Qassam 1 rockets toward an Israeli town. The attack was a dud; the rocket landed in an empty field. But with...
...their power, the Kushans handled cultural and religious diversity better than those who have ruled Afghanistan in recent decades. Cambon says they showed "an extreme tolerance and true eclecticism if we bear in mind the diverse origins of the divinities that appear on the reverse of their coins: Greek, Iranian, Hindu, even the first figurative representation of Buddha...
...smuggled onto an airplane. And technicians quickly worked to erase scenes of the World Trade Center towers from trailers for Spider-Man, while production of Men in Black 2, which was being shot in downtown New York, has been shut down indefinitely. Other films found unexpected audiences. Kandahar, an Iranian film about a young Afghan refugee living in Canada who returns home to try to help her troubled sister, has been playing to good houses in Italy and France, and recently opened to great publicity in Britain...