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...last year of his two terms of office facing a hostile parliament and the possibility that conservatives will win the presidency in 2005. It's a prospect that fills Khamenei's allies with glee. "A quarter of a century after the triumph of the Islamic revolution," boasts Mohammed Kazem Anbarlui, editor of the conservative daily Resalat, "we are at the height of power...
...Unlike his father, Muqtada has no formal religious standing to interpret the Koran, and relies for religious authority on an Iran-based Iraqi exiled cleric, Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri. But he clearly believes he will himself assume the rank of marjah - the highest authority on religion and law in Shiism, in American pop-cultural terms a knight on the highest Jedi council. His father and uncle certainly provide him with an impeccable pedigree in terms of Iraqi Shiite martyrdom. Their names - along with Muqtada's - were chanted by thousands of worshipers making the pilgrimage to Karbala last week. He denies...
...difficult to disentangle the feeling of love from the physical attraction between opposite sexes, yet this attraction depends on the partners' hormonal makeup, which is the work of chemistry. In order to produce human feelings in computers there would have to be chemical reactions in the machines. KAZEM OMIDVAR Washington...
German authorities quickly rounded up five of the eight suspected perpetrators and have had them on trial in Berlin since last October. Three others are still at large. The alleged leader, Kazem Darabi, a 34-year-old importer-exporter, worked for years as the German-based link between Tehran and the Lebanese Hizballah, according to the German prosecutors. The indictment identifies him as "an agent of the Iranian intelligence service VEVAK" and a Revolutionary Guards member. His assignment, assert German prosecutors, was to "liquidate" the Kurd leader as part of a "persecution strategy of the Iranian minister for intelligence...
...Sadegh Ghotbzadeh confessed on Iranian television last week that he had participated in a plot to overthrow the government and assassinate its spiritual leader, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Looking tired and drawn, Ghotbzadeh told a bizarre story in which he implicated an other powerful religious leader, the Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Shariatmadari. The plot purportedly called for Khomeini's house to be bombed or rocketed while he was meeting with government leaders. After that, attacks were to be launched against headquarters of the police, the Revolutionary Guards and radio and television stations. Two army officers with whom Ghotbzadeh conspired...