Word: karim
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...direction we'd all hoped," a French diplomat told TIME, "but all options and possible outcomes remain fully open." U.S. President George W. Bush reacted cautiously, saying "the world is coalescing" against Iran's ambitions, and wouldn't rule out sanctioning military force against the country. Analyst Karim Sadjadpour of the International Crisis Group says that Iranian officials are making good on their rhetoric to continue enrichment activities and "feel confident that with oil at $64 a barrel, the last thing the Europeans want is further sanctions on Iranian...
...DIED. KARIM EMAMI, 75, Iranian translator and devoted supporter of Persian literature and art; in Tehran. Born in Calcutta, Emami studied English at the University of Minnesota before returning to Iran, where he founded a publishing house and a popular Tehran bookstore. Among the best known of his numerous works are his translations of The Great Gatsby into Persian and the poems of Omar Khayyam into English...
...dreams of Che Guevara and a quick, painless revolution, replaced by the allure of pyramid schemes and cheap trips to India. Although it's too late to buy the love of Iran's youth, the mullahs seem happy to settle for torpor. "You have a situation," says my friend Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst in Tehran for the International Crisis Group, "where the majority of Iranians have neither the luxury to risk their livelihoods waging political protest nor the nothing-to-lose desperation and rage that result from penury...
...SMOKING sign, not even the doctors and nurses. Broken windows allowed dust to enter, and swarms of flies buzzed around the patients; we used the X-ray films to swat them away. "All the rules of hygiene we learned have been broken here," said veteran nurse Hadi Abdel Karim as he paused for a cigarette break in a corner of the ER. "But we have no time and no money to spend on cleanliness." When I complained about the risk of secondary infections, Karim shrugged. "Infections?" he said. "First and foremost, the patients are at risk of dying from lack...
...says something about the collapse of American illusions in Iraq that a deal along those lines with an elected government might be the closest the U.S. can get to declaring victory and heading home. For Iraqis like Karim al-Saadi, the government that is born on Jan. 30 will be judged by how it succeeds "with important things." He defines them as "security, jobs ... and getting the Americans out of our country." If nothing else, those are goals for the new government that all Iraqis can agree on. --With reporting by Christopher Allbritton/ Baghdad, Darrin Mortenson/ Najaf and Sally...