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...Prosecution For the past six weeks, Abdelghani Mzoudi seemed likely to be acquitted by a Hamburg court of charges that he helped the terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. Last week prosecutors introduced a surprise witness: a self-proclaimed Iranian intelligence agent, known as Hamid Reza Zakeri, who said Mzoudi handled logistics for the three hijackers based in Hamburg before the terror strikes. "I'm very excited," says Ulrich von Jeinsen, a lawyer representing American relatives of victims of Sept. 11, who under German law can take part in the trial. "This is severe information against Mzoudi." Others...
...Iranian governments described the current mission as strictly humanitarian, and, indeed, last Friday the Iranians rebuffed a U.S. offer to send a second, higher-powered delegation that would have included Senator Elizabeth Dole and an unnamed Bush family member. But the goodwill on the ground was unmistakable. Mohammad Reza Tammasi, the manager of Bam's huge foreign-aid campsite, told the Americans, "We hope your arrival here will help improve relations between our countries...
...Khamenei's clerical regime. Still, there is no proof that Iran is abetting al-Qaeda, only that its terrorists are hiding there. The Iranians add that the U.S. has not given them much direction. "If the Americans would tell us where these terrorists are," says Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, "we'd happily arrest them." --By Tim McGirk/Tehran
...coming, even though Mossadegh was as anti-Soviet as he was anti-British. On Aug. 19, 1953, after the deaths of about 300 people in street riots, the 71-year-old Premier was overthrown. He was replaced by a retired army general, Fazollah Zahedi. The American-friendly Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who had earlier fled the country, returned triumphantly, resumed the throne and reasserted his control...
...Warchus directs it, just what, if anything, has gone on between Sonia and Henry's boss before this evening.) Worse, the intial misunderstanding - guests who arrive for dinner on the wrong night - winds up having little to do with the rest of the play. In each the three variations, Reza skips the key scene in which the couples discover the mistake; she jumps straight to later in the evening, when they're scarfing down cheese snacks. (What, no takeout restaurants in Paris?) You only have to imagine what a playwright like Alan Ayckbourn - or even Neil Simon, in his better...