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1,000 Number of Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia scheduled to receive American schoolbooks from the U.S. embassy, in an effort to counter anti-American sentiment
A reverential hush filled the heavily guarded Islamic community center in downtown Tehran when Iran's Supreme Leader arrived to cast his vote last week in the country's parliamentary elections. "Allah bless the Prophet and his descendants," cried some fellow mullahs and government officials, in a traditional invocation. With...
For now, the power struggle in Iran--mullah warfare, some Iranians call it--is over, and the conservatives have won. The big winner is Khamenei, 64, who played a decisive role in putting his conservative allies back in power. The main loser is reformist President Mohammed Khatami, who will serve...
The reformists' defeat owes partly to the fact that most of them didn't even run. The Khamenei-appointed Guardian Council, a powerful oversight body consisting of six clerics and six Islamic jurists, barred hundreds of reformists, including 87 members of the Majlis, from standing as candidates on various grounds...
Under the Islamic Republic's constitution, Khamenei is supposed to be above politics. But he has routinely supported conservative moves--many reformists charge that he has secretly directed them--to quash the pro-democracy movement. He has relied mostly on his legal powers as Supreme Leader, which are greater than...