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Tehran's response? Chillier than a maiden with an unwanted suitor. "There has been very little coming back," laments a senior Clinton aide. Iranian officials have dismissed Washington's feelers, arguing that crushing economic sanctions are still in place. CIA director George Tenet warned this month that Iran "remains the most active state sponsor" of terrorism and could test a long-range missile "in the next few years" that could reach...
What does Iran really want? The State Department believes some top Iranian officials--to say nothing of the bulk of the population--want more normal ties. But saying that publicly in Tehran is politically risky. "The moderates," explains Kenneth Katzman, a Middle East expert with the Congressional Research Service, "don't feel they have adequate political cover to pursue [closer ties] right now." Even if his reformers win a majority in this week's elections, Iran's President Mohammed Khatami still may not be willing to go beyond exchanging tourists or sports teams. And though the White House says...
...radical to imagine, much less assemble, are being readied for construction. One of them is Daniel Libeskind's tumbling addition to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, which looks like a cross between a building and an avalanche. Another is the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati by the Iranian-born, diagonally inclined British architect Zaha Hadid. Several of the most spectacular works in progress are by Gehry, like his annex to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, a whiplashing addition to a city where, when it comes to new architecture, you can usually hear a pin drop...
...Lebanon-based Hezbollah, a long-time Iranian ally, is believed to be acting as intermediary to the Palestinian groups Hamas and PIJ, which have traditionally had little contact with either Hezbollah or Tehran. In recent weeks fighting has flared in southern Lebanon between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas. Administration hawks say the attacks show that Iran remains committed to state-sponsored terrorism despite progress by reformers aligned with President Mohammed Khatami. Sources say the Iranian intelligence service, MOIS, which had stepped away from involvement with terrorists, has re-entered the fray by allowing its elite KUDZ force - special teams that...
...administration has been hands-off until now, saying it'd let the market self-adjust, but prices have just hit a nine-year high - with American emergency crude oil stores at a 25-year low and the summer driving season approaching. And the announcement last week by Kuwaiti and Iranian officials that they'd vote to retain the production cuts at OPEC's March 27 meeting was the final straw in prompting the White House...