Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like another trial of accused Iran-backed assassins now under way in Berlin, the Bakhtiar case will in effect put the Tehran government in the dock. Bruguiere's investigation appears to have assembled an unprecedented body of evidence linking Iranian officials to the murder of a political opponent abroad. "This case," says a French official familiar with the investigation, "marks the first time that we have so many proofs of the implication of the state in an operation of this importance." Defense lawyers contend that the evidence against their clients is flimsy, and Iranian officials vehemently deny any involvement...
...sources say Iran has been strengthening its relations with such groups as the Japanese Red Army, the Lebanese Hizballah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. Sources also say representatives of several international terrorist groups met a few weeks ago in Tehran with high-ranking Iranian intelligence officials. High on the agenda: disruption of the Middle East peace process...
Harvard for instance could extend an open invitation to Rushdie to speak here. President Bill Clinton and other politicians should embrace Rushdie openly without the fear demonstrated by Clinton's backsliding last November when Rushdie visited the president at the White House. And some further public denunciation of Iranian actions might also help...
Saturday was not the only time last week that Clinton used the symbolic power of the presidency to defend free speech. Earlier, Clinton met with author Salman Rushdie, whose 1989 book The Satanic Verses earned him a death sentence from Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. President Bush had shunned such meetings, with his press secretary derisively dismissing Rushdie as just another "author promoting his book...
...every 4 is Arab. Whole parts of the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion are largely Korean. And when the prostitutes of Melbourne distributed some pro-condom pamphlets, one of the languages they used was Macedonian. Even Japan, which prides itself on its centuries-old socially engineered uniculture, swarms with Iranian illegals, Western executives, Pakistani laborers and Filipina hostesses...