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...connection between Blackwater and Christianity: "I'm a practicing Roman Catholic, but you don't have to be Catholic, you don't have to be a Christian to work for Blackwater." - Newsweek, October...
...turmoil following the controversial June 12 presidential election, Iran's ruling hard-liners have escalated their showdown with the opposition by putting more than 100 political dissidents on what many outside the regime have denounced as a show trial. Among those "confessing" so far has been a reporter for Newsweek, Maziar Bahari, a Canadian citizen of Iranian descent, who said the foreign media helped cause the chaos following the vote. However, the regime's intentions can be seen from the array of political figures on trial, including several Deputy Ministers, a deputy speaker of parliament and many current advisers...
...Newsweek • guffaw-inducing proposal is seriously made...
...semiofficial FARS News Agency published what it claims was a "press conference" with Maziar Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian correspondent for Newsweek. Bahari, 42, was arrested by security officials at his mother's home on June 21. In what appears to be a forced confession, the news agency highlighted Bahari's role as a producer for the BBC and Britain's Channel 4 and quoted him saying that "espionage by foreign reporters is undeniable" and that in some cases Iranian reporters "make mistakes, become emotional and greedy and fall into the trap of foreigners." The news report fails to mention that...
...time to leave. Reporting Iran over the past week has been a dangerous enterprise for everyone, but I knew that as a dual-national on freelance assignment for TIME, I was a particularly soft target. Soon after, other journalists were expelled or detained, including a reporter for Newsweek...