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...Iranians believe that the country's rulers fear further engagement with the West will embolden young people to demand greater freedoms, which may fatally undermine the regime's authority. "They feel danger, and their strategy of dealing with it is by attacking rather than cooperating," says a former senior reformist official...
...judges into retirement. Mugabe, once hailed as a great new African leader himself, has proved more powerful than his country's institutions. There is progress, of course. Kenyans last week rejected a new constitution backed by lackluster President Mwai Kibaki - elected just three years ago in a wave of reformist zeal - because of concerns that the proposals vested too much power in his office. (Kibaki promptly sacked his entire Cabinet.) Voters in Ghana, Senegal and Zambia have all elected opposition parties since the turn of the century. Such peaceful shifts prove that institutions in some countries are becoming strong enough...
Perhaps because of the tricky moral ground--and the potential for bolstering stereotypes--those terrorism scripts include sympathetic Muslims as audience surrogates. In Syriana there is a reformist Arab prince; in War Within, Hassan's childhood friend Sayeed (Firdous Bamji), an assimilated suburban dad, doesn't understand why Hassan can't leave his anger and piety back in the Old World. In its sweeping, 24-like thriller plot, Sleeper Cell depicts a wide range of extremists but also Darwyn (Michael Ealy), a devout Muslim FBI agent who infiltrates the cell and sees its members as foes of Islam...
Iranian diplomats downplayed the episode. Nonetheless, Iranian political scientist Hadi Semati told TIME Ahmadinejad's reversal of the conciliatory tone of former reformist President Mohammed Khatami risks escalating the ongoing showdown with the West over Iran's nuclear-enrichment ambitions. With his administration beset by an internal power struggle between military hard-liners and religious conservatives, Ahmadinejad may have been trying to bolster his standing with radicals. "The restraints are all off," says a Western diplomat in Tehran. "[The President] is remote-controlled by the very people who are responsible for all the bad stuff." Says a Tehran reformist...
...Iranian diplomats downplayed the episode. Nonetheless, Iranian political scientist Hadi Semati told TIME Ahmadinejad's reversal of the conciliatory tone of former reformist President Mohammed Khatami risks escalating the ongoing showdown with the West over Iran's nuclear-enrichment ambitions. With his administration beset by an internal power struggle between military hard-liners and religious conservatives, Ahmadinejad may have been trying to bolster his standing with radicals. "The restraints are all off," says a Western diplomat in Tehran. "[The President] is remote-controlled by the very people who are responsible for all the bad stuff." Says a Tehran reformist...