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...Iranian Nuclear Secrets Can Be Dangerous to Your Health...
...PARIS -- Iranian government sources have confirmed that a Chinese nuclear engineer and two Iranian technicians who vanished in the Iranian city of Shiraz on June 3 were kidnapped. The men are thought to have possessed classified information on Iran's nuclear program. It is unclear who kidnapped them; spies from several nations operate in the area...
...death. When the businessman did not contest the facts, prosecutors assumed they had an easy second-degree murder conviction. But Hanoukai's attorney James Blatt mounted this defense: his client was a victim of husband battering and 25 years of abuse. Furthermore, because of the stringencies of an Iranian-Jewish culture, Hanoukai felt trapped: he killed Manijeh because he was not allowed to divorce her. The jury empathized and found Hanoukai guilty only of voluntary manslaughter. Instead of 15 years to life, he may serve as brief a prison term as 4 1/2 years...
...relative of an Iranian dissident who was murdered in France, I thank TIME for breaking the silence on how Iran hunts down its opponents abroad ((TERRORISM, March 21)). Iran's ruling mullahs butcher Iranian dissidents abroad to demonstrate the mullahs' capacity to eliminate their critics with impunity no matter where those critics live. No doubt the mullahs are encouraged by the decision of several Western governments to appease Iran. Handing suspects in the murder of dissidents back to Iran may win a few short- term economic and political advantages, but it will not end Iranian terrorism...
...videotaped 1994 confession that TIME was able to view in Istanbul, Mehmet Ali Bilici, a militant Turkish fundamentalist, described his terrorist training at an Iranian camp near Qum. He said he and other trainees received basic military instruction, followed by courses in intelligence-trade craft, coded communications, explosives and covert operations, and acknowledged that he received "direct orders" from the Iranians to conduct "military operations on Turkish soil." Bilici has admitted to kidnapping two Iranian opposition figures who were turned over to VEVAK agents and later killed...