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...Contemporary political Islam first exploded onto the world stage in 1979 with the Iranian revolution, which destabilized the politics of the Islamic world for almost two decades. That outcome was caused, in part, by the fact that the authoritarianism of Iran's pro-Western monarch, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, tolerated no democratic challenge to his regime...
...nine times by police, the 10th time with a violent blow to her hand. "Tonight I'm grieving for Americans and for humanity," she said as she lit match after match in the cool breeze. When police put out the flame once again, she informed them "There was an Iranian woman on one of those planes" and replaced her candle with a rose plucked from a nearby bush. An hour later, after plainclothes police infiltrated the crowd and attacked loiterers with batons, police in partial riot gear patrolled the square. The vigil, like most public assemblies in Iran, had been...
...Iranian officials agonized over whether to sign a memorial book at the Swiss Embassy's U.S. Interests Section in Tehran. M.P. Ahmed Bourghani phoned Mohammed Ali Abtahi, Khatami's former chief of staff, and asked him to come along and sign. Abtahi said no, but minutes before the book was shipped off to Washington, Bourghani showed up with a bouquet of white gladioli to sign on behalf of the Speaker of Parliament, Mehdi Karroubi...
...Iranian officials groping for a response found themselves still trying to shake off the old revolutionary mindset. Two decades of isolation have left even the savviest leaders unsure about their positions and wary of catastrophic errors of judgment. State television, with its hard-line bias and Soviet-style programming, has long ceased to be a reliable source of information. So leaders watched cnn and Al-Jazeera, an Arabic all-news station, for the latest news...
...Iranian-Americans with high-level contacts in both Washington and Tehran made frantic calls to Iranian powerbrokers. "Clarify Iran's position or risk getting bombed," one told former Speaker of Parliament Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri. "We should use this opportunity to create a common understanding," said Taha Hashemi, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. "All this bitterness can yield a blessing...