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...begin a dialogue with Washington. Before his recent electoral victory, Khatami, with an eye cast over his right shoulder toward his fiercely anti-American conservative opponents, had rebuffed U.S. efforts. But anti-American sentiment in Iran has a basis in the country's history - the U.S. brought Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi to power and then helped keep him there for decades before Iranians finally took to the streets to overthrow him. Hard-liners among them immediately seized the U.S. embassy and launched the hostage crisis in a deliberate effort to cut all ties with Washington and prevent it from having...
...Yasmina Reza...
...since the first balloting after Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolution have Iranians seen such a freewheeling election--a credit to the progress Khatami has managed to achieve. More than 6,000 candidates are vying for places in the 290-seat Majlis. In the 30-seat Tehran region, Reza Khatami is competing against an astonishing 869 rivals. Many Iranians had expected the Council of Guardians, which screens candidates and is controlled by hard-line mullahs, to manipulate the outcome ahead of time by keeping reform-minded candidates off the ballot. But the secretive council surprised everyone and waved most reform hopefuls...
What is certain is that Iran's Sixth Majlis will have more reform faces like Reza Khatami's. The candidate candidly admits that the revolution made some mistakes. He advocates free speech, even if it challenges clerical rule, and expresses little fear of globalization. "One response to globalization is to limit new technologies without really understanding them," he says. "Another is to learn about them and interact with them. We want to interact." The Great Satan? When an American reporter asks to accompany him on his campaign trip, it takes Khatami 10 seconds to smile and say, "Sure, come along...
...Iran is to negotiate the treacherous road from theocracy to democracy, reformers must find a way to speak to the Internet generation as well as to older Iranians. That realization is what had Reza Khatami dashing along Tehran's clogged streets to meet the voters. At Tehran's Shariati Cultural Center, singing and clapping students cheered when he declared, "With the support of the youth, we shall all build the future of this country!" An hour's drive away at the mosque in Shahr-ray, he addressed a subdued throng of working-class men, reassuring them that the reform movement...