Word: rahimi
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...Game, greatgametravel.com. Its mission is to give visitors a taste of the people and culture that made this city a vital crossroads of Asia and Europe for more than 5,000 years. "Even the foreigners who have lived here for years have no idea what Kabul is," says Jamshid Rahimi, a Great Game guide. "They get picked up from their guesthouse, taken to work in an office, they eat in the foreign restaurants and they go home again. Our city has so much more to offer than that...
...last month and is pending approval by parliament - would be a kinder, softer version of its Taliban predecessor and would not enforce such harsh penalties for moral transgressions. Instead, the organization would mirror those in other Islamic countries that aim to "promote morality in society," Presidential spokesman Mohammad Karim Rahimi said...
...Unlike Rahimi, most basij members are poor. Their sleeves reach their wrists, their shoes are scuffed, and they're unlikely to know of Eminem. Many eke out a living by renting motorbikes to work as messengers or bike taxis; hordes of them idle sullenly on their bikes near Tehran's grand bazaar. With this sort of work, it will take them an epoch to raise enough money to get married. The basij might give them a small stipend and help cover holidays at the Caspian Sea, but it cannot buy them an apartment or sustain a life. Embarrassed by their...
...Despite the difference in their status and prospects, what Rahimi and his comrades share is their romance with the notion of Iranian power. Rahimi can rattle off the range of the Shahab-5 missile and fantasize about what closing the Strait of Hormuz would do to U.S. oil supplies. "We really should not have signed the additional protocol to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty," he laments. "Iran's legitimate right to nuclear technology should not be checked by the West's politics...
...Ahmedinajad won the loyalty of the basij, and the voters who responded to their campaigning, by promising to relieve the grinding poverty that remains the lot of the majority a quarter-century after the Islamic Revolution. Piety and a hawkish foreign policy might be enough to retain Rahimi's support, but for most of his basij brothers, the new President may be judged on whether he is able to make their lives more like Rahimi...