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...Iran doesn't lie just in the country's ancient sites, snowy peaks or lively cities, but in the warmth and generosity of the people. Though Tehran may be the country's cosmopolitan capital, if you want a sense of Iran's human soul, head to the city of Isfahan at the foot of the Zagros Mountains. Home to some of the Islamic world's finest architecture, Isfahan is a living, breathing work of art - and a must for first-time visitors to the country...
...evil," and when the rhetoric cooled, the regime resumed trying to placate its angry young people. Watching from afar, I will be eager to see how a hard-line government will woo back the vast middle class, alienated by the imposition of a more Islamic social order. In Isfahan angry citizens reportedly burned police buses used to round up flouters of "Islamic" dress. In Shiraz 2,000 university students demonstrated against new dress restrictions. It's hard to see how Ahmadinejad and his supporters will retain control of parliament in next spring's crucial elections. But "the hard-liners would...
...credit enough was far more advanced than we thought,” Lu said over the weekend. “Again and again, girih tiles provide logical explanations for complicated designs.” Prominent buildings throughout the Islamic world feature such configurations, ranging from mosques in Isfahan, Iran, and Bursa, Turkey to shrines in Herat, Afghanistan and Agra, India. Lu said he detected the decagonal ornamentation on a 16th century Islamic building in Uzbekistan while he was in the region surveying a space center in Turkmenistan. Lu added that he confirmed his observations with the help of the Harvard?...
...obtained from Iran showed that they may have been trying to conceptualize how to adapt one of their missiles to a nuclear weapon. It is cause for concern. Certainly, we know where the key installations are, the ones that have been monitored by the International Atomic Energy Agency--Isfahan and Natanz. Are there others that we're not aware of at all? You don't know what you don't know...
Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wasted no time in confronting the West over Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Just days after being sworn in, Ahmadinejad defended Iran's decision to break seals placed by the International Atomic Energy Agency on a facility in Isfahan, thus ending a nine-month-old voluntary moratorium on converting uranium ore into gas used in the uranium-enrichment process. The move followed Iran's rejection of a U.S.-backed compromise proposed by Britain, France and Germany that called for Iran to give up uranium-enrichment activities - which could potentially produce fuel for an atomic weapon...