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...politicians owe as much to another country's government as Nouri al-Maliki owes to the Bush Administration. In April, strong U.S. backing catapulted al-Maliki into his job as Iraq's Prime Minister after a two-month impasse over the nomination of his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Jaafari. Sunni and Kurdish politicians say U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad leaned heavily on them to back al-Maliki. "Khalilzad made it clear there was only one man on Washington's wish list," a senior Kurdish leader told TIME on condition of anonymity. "Al-Maliki cannot have any doubts about...
...helped turn Iraq into a terrorist breeding ground and claimed responsibility for the deaths of hundreds, new images of his visage emerged last week for the first time in years when he appeared in a video released on the Internet. The video's release coincided with the naming of Nouri al-Maliki as Iraq's new Prime Minister, who the U.S. hopes can finally form a unity government that will begin to erode the strength of the insurgency. In the video, a bearded and black-clad al-Zarqawi fires a machine gun to show off his prowess as a fighter...
...reform within the Islamic clergy; his lawyers hope to have the sentence overturned on appeal. Another prominent pro-reform figure, Abbas Abdi, was also arrested. But there was good news for the reform movement too: the release of the Iran's top political dissident, former Interior Minister Abdullah Nouri, by Supreme Leader Ayatallah Ali Khamenei. Nouri's an ally of President Mohammed Khatami. Meanwhile, a constitutional crisis loomed after parliament passed a bill to strip the hard-line clerics of some of their powers. The bill must be approved by the Council of Guardians, the body whose powers parliament wants...
...Iranian-Americans with high-level contacts in both Washington and Tehran made frantic calls to Iranian powerbrokers. "Clarify Iran's position or risk getting bombed," one told former Speaker of Parliament Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri. "We should use this opportunity to create a common understanding," said Taha Hashemi, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. "All this bitterness can yield a blessing...
...Nouri praises Khatami for making government more accountable but warns that the President's program will face "serious problems" if reform forces are unfairly excluded from the next parliament. "If the rules of the game are observed," says Nouri, "Khatami will come out with flying colors." With Iran's turbulent transition, however, that remains a very...