Word: qum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alive. On the first anniversary of Khatami's election last month, tens of thousands of supporters crammed into an outdoor theater at Tehran University to hear a speech by the President. They cheered and stamped their feet, shouted, "Khatami, we love you!" and denounced the conservative mullahs in Qum as "Taliban," an insulting allusion to the ultra-fundamentalists governing neighboring Afghanistan. When a small section of hard-line students began yelling "Death to America!" the President reprimanded them, declaring "In this gathering, I prefer that we speak about life, not death." The majority in the audience cheered...
...physically breaking up a Khatami speech, getting police to cancel a major rally and using a technicality to close down Khatami's election headquarters in the last week of campaigning. Nateq-Noori was the candidate of a militant Islamic front combining the conservative mullahs of the holy city of Qum and the middle-class traders of the Tehran bazaar. A former Khomeini bodyguard, he had become a top police official, then head of the conservative-controlled National Assembly. His campaign slogan was an oath of absolute loyalty to the mullahs' supreme rule...
Like his opponent, Khatami attended the seminary in Qum. Yet he also studied Western philosophy. He wrote some speeches for Khomeini but is otherwise the first President who lacks revolutionary credentials. His own campaign speeches promised more freedom and tolerance. "Our country has a long way to go," he said in his last speech. "The government doesn't give people the opportunity to grow...
...videotaped 1994 confession that TIME was able to view in Istanbul, Mehmet Ali Bilici, a militant Turkish fundamentalist, described his terrorist training at an Iranian camp near Qum. He said he and other trainees received basic military instruction, followed by courses in intelligence-trade craft, coded communications, explosives and covert operations, and acknowledged that he received "direct orders" from the Iranians to conduct "military operations on Turkish soil." Bilici has admitted to kidnapping two Iranian opposition figures who were turned over to VEVAK agents and later killed...
...taste for broader contacts extends beyond Tehran. In Qum, a major religious center, clerics at the Ayatullah Golpaigani Research Center use Mitac desktop computers, on which they can call up 700 volumes of Islamic holy law encoded on Foxpro software. The center's director, Ayatullah Ali Korani, wants to network with U.S. universities. "I don't speak English or French," he says, "but I speak computer...