Word: shied
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the powerful Shi'ite literary critic who upheld a death sentence against Salman Rushdie for The Satanic Verses, wants to be a best-selling author himself. Rafsanjani's co-author is offering the 400-page manuscript for Our Revolution: The Ideology Behind the Movement to U.S. publishing houses. Excerpts from the work show that the Ayatullah Khomeini's political heir still has a jaundiced view of the Great Satan. "Our real desire, from the beginning, was to humiliate the United States throughout the world," writes Rafsanjani. Moreover, Westerners "are members of the school...
...Iranians have said they are not seeking to turn southern Iraq, which is predominantly Shi'ite, into a separatist state. Do you believe that...
...posts, and in Friday prayers his easy manner is refreshing to a country tired of harangues from harsh-tongued mullahs. In his famous November sermon, for example, Rafsanjani argued that young people were being asked to deny the "sexual urge" for too long, and that "temporary marriage," a Shi'ite institution endorsing sexual liaisons for fixed periods of time, ought to be more widely accepted. Says a Western diplomat: "His main weapon is that he speaks the same language as ordinary people, and he talks directly about their difficulties...
...recollections of the more than 18,000 people crammed into two huge, dusty tent camps along the Iraq-Kuwait border, one of them run by U.S. troops near the site where the Iraqi military accepted the allied cease-fire. The residents are the refugees of Safwan, most of them Shi'ites, who fled from Saddam Hussein's vengeful army when it recaptured several rebellious cities in the south after...
...internal affairs, we left the Kurdish rebellion to its fate. We should have seen that a six-week air war was already a massive intervention in Iraq's affairs. If Saddam was dangerous enough to be bombed out of Kuwait, then his internal enemies, the Kurds and the Shi'ites, ought to have been helped to win themselves some breathing room...