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...mission. In ancient Persian medical lore, turnips are just the thing for a cold, and Reza Pahlavi's daughter Noor, 10, has a stinking one. She would be Princess Noor if her grandfather, Shah of Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, had not been exiled when the ayatullahs deposed him in 1979. At the time, her father was studying to be a fighter pilot in Texas, and he has lived in the U.S. for most of the years since, living off his remaining savings and working full time at his larger mission. These days the Crown Prince--as he is still known...
...been saying that for 20 years, and for most of the time has been ignored by all but a few die-hard monarchists. But in the past few months, Pahlavi's message has started to resonate back home. During his father's reign, there was widespread loathing of the Shah's excesses. But the current regime has so alienated many reform-minded Iranians that Pahlavi, who lives outside Washington, has become a source of hope. From studios in Los Angeles, he makes regular broadcasts to Iran, which are watched avidly, though illegally, on satellite TV. In Iran, contact with Pahlavi...
Since Sept. 11, Pahlavi's stature has increased in Tehran and Washington. Many Iranians reacted enviously to the fall of the Taliban and the liberation of Afghan life--especially for women. Some are impressed by the rehabilitation of Mohammed Zahir Shah, the exiled Afghan King, who plans to return soon to Kabul for the first time in 29 years. In a TV broadcast last October, Pahlavi urged Iranians to demonstrate peacefully after their country's qualifying games for the World Cup. But young people poured into the streets, chanting anti-regime slogans in a fierce show of discontent. In Tehran...
...current HIS president, Said Iqbal Shah Mohammed ’02, has focused his energy on increasing awareness and tolerance for the Muslim faith at Harvard...
Your map of the assault on the Shah-i-Kot Valley included a section with the heading "How the Battle Went Awry." Awry? Any battle in the past in which hundreds of enemy fighters were killed, compared with the loss of only eight of our own, is an overwhelming victory. As for the statement "One day, perhaps, Americans will tire of the slow drip of deaths...of the sort that old colonial powers like Britain and France once learned to endure," have you forgotten? We were savagely attacked by al-Qaeda and will not stop until we destroy them! MARTY...