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...faces a population exhausted by eight years of war with Iraq, domestic political turmoil and a severe economic slump. The President seems to realize he must respond to those hardships, and thus has tried to ease the harsh enforcement of hijab. More important, Rafsanjani wants to end Iran's pariah status in the world community and gain desperately needed aid. "We are in a period of reconstruction," says Rajaie Khorassani, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Majlis (parliament). In a more terse analysis, a Western diplomat concludes, "The revolution is over...
...magical effects. On a squalid Cairo street early on a cold, foul day, people greet each other with small bouquets of words: "Morning of blessings! Morning of light!" They have conjured a moment, and smiled, and passed, and then, poof! they are back on a miserable street among the pariah dogs. If people are poor and live in the desert, language may be their richest possession: Why not? It opens miraculously onto other worlds. The Koran, with its bursts of sonority and light, describes a paradise that has everything the desert does not: the sweetest water, cool shade, silken couches...
...Pariah No Longer...
That assumption proved wrong. Very wrong. "I felt like a pariah from the rest of the world," Rhew says...
Saddam Hussein is an evil dictator, who deserves to be the international pariah he has become. But this is not our war. Liberating a tiny Gulf state and humiliating the tyrant of the week is not an acceptable rationale for massive American casualites...