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...Death to the government of potato!' SUPPORTERS of Iranian presidential hopeful Mir-Hossein Moussavi, referring to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who distributed 400,000 tons of free potatoes in the run-up to the country's June 12 election...
...Inspired by the Iranian Islamic Revolution, a group of young Lebanese, including a 22-year-old religious scholar named Hassan Nasrallah, joined forces with the ambitious goal of eradicating the Israeli presence in Lebanon through a series of crude guerrilla attacks, including suicide bombings, kidnappings and assassinations...
Media buzz before the showdown in Pyongyang centered around Afshin Ghotbi, the Iranian-American who was named coach of the team ahead of the game in a bid - supposedly encouraged by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - to revitalize Iran's flagging footballing fortunes. Many in Iran thought Ghotbi ought to have been in charge from the very start of their qualification campaign last year. But politics and prejudice stood in the way of his appointment then - after all, when Iran beat the United States 2-1 in the 1998 World Cup, a victory that saw millions of Iranians fill the nation...
...countries may occupy the remaining seats in the Axis of Evil clubhouse, but they're hardly on friendly terms on the football pitch. In 2005, the last time the Iranians played a competitive match in the North Korean capital, the game turned sour. Slipping to defeat, North Korean players vented their frustrations on the Syrian referee, pushing the official to the ground. Irate fans hurled missiles - plastic bottles, mostly - at the Iranian team. The scenes then were broadcast via satellite around the world, giving watchers of the isolated communist state a strange, unprecedented glimpse of what civil disturbance could look...
...squads themselves were a picture of contrasts. The Iranians have been long considered one of Asia's more talented and enigmatic outfits, a team that likes to play an attractive and skillful game of neat touches and quick passing. They boast a number of flashy stars who ply their trade in some of Europe's elite football leagues. In the past, Iran's mullahs have issued fatwas chastising national team players for growing their hair long. Still, there were plenty of flowing locks on Iranian heads in Pyongyang; the team commands such adulation from the country's football faithful that...