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...advance of February's Berlin International Film Festival, at which Panahi's film picked up the Silver Bear, a group of participating Iranian directors was told by Ministry officials to speak freely to the foreign press. And last month, after women protested outside Tehran's stadium, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lifted the ban on women attending games. Some of the protesters were carrying signs saying we don't want to be offside anymore, using the film that almost nobody has seen - but everyone's heard about - to further their cause. Could this be the stirrings of an impending cultural renaissance...
...think you are dealing with a 4-year-old child to whom you can give some walnuts and chocolates and get gold from him?" MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, rejecting an E.U. offer to give his country nonmilitary nuclear technology, including a reactor, in exchange for halting uranium enrichment...
...verbose reading material aboard Air Force One last week. Rather than peruse another dry policy paper, Bush was more interested in a rambling 18-page polemic that, among other things, argued that U.S. policies do not comport with Christian values. It came from an unlikely correspondent: Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose incendiary statements and nuclear ambitions have raised alarm around the world--and may yet draw the U.S. to the precipice...
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he wants to negotiate on nukes but is not tamping down his strong rhetoric. His defiance of the West is in the mold of the AYATULLAH KHOMEINI, who led Iran's Islamic revolution...
...such a clash. More than 10,000 black-clad riot police had sealed off entire areas of the city in an attempt to prevent demonstrators from expressing their support for two pro-reform judges who were scheduled to appear in front of a disciplinary hearing that morning. The judges, Mahmoud Mekky and Hesham El Bastawissi, face possible expulsion from the bench after calling for the independence of Egypt's judiciary and protesting ballot fraud during last year's parliamentary elections. Their case is fast becoming a cause celebre in Egypt, where President Hosni Mubarak, 78, is facing growing domestic...