Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I read the essay by Khatami, the first thing I thought of was the slap I received, simply for possessing a copy of TIME, from the special interrogator in a political prison in Tehran. I finally had to escape from my beloved homeland and settle in Europe. Despite Khatami's hints that there should be freedom of thought, if you want to speak about freedom nowadays in Iran, you are accused of being a corrupt person. Khatami's remarks bring hope not only to the people who voted for him but also to Iranians like me who love...
...Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Spiritual chief Khamenei and other militant hard-liners still prefer shouting sulfurous slogans at the "Great Satan" and setting fire to Old Glory. Khatami has been walking a line between the Iranian reformers and mossbacks from the day he was elected. At an Islamic summit in Tehran last month, Khatami reportedly passed the word that he intended to reshape and moderate Iran's foreign policy, but it would take him two years to build up enough domestic strength to pull...
...TEHRAN: Too good to be true? Curiously co-incidental detentes may be breaking out between the U.S. and its Persian Gulf bugaboos, Iran and Iraq. To wit: Iranian President Mohammed Khatami says he wants to talk ? and according to TIME Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod, it's a genuine offer. Meanwhile Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is embroiled in potentially positive discussions with Richard Butler, chief U.N. weapons inspector, over opening up more sites to inspectors of all nations ? even American ones...
...relatively new and moderate Khatami can go with his olive branch, given the entrenched opposition of Iran's hard-line ruling clergy. "To succeed," says MacLeod, "Khatami has to overcome hardliners within the Iranian system, and hawkish elements in the U.S. who oppose any rapprochement with Tehran." But he's already come a long way. Who'd have thought we'd ever hear "I take this opportunity to pay my respects to the great American people" from an Iranian leader? Sure makes a difference from "Great Satan," a favorite of Khatami's predecessors...
...program. That had finally been worked out just minutes before the meeting. In the past, Chinese arms-control assurances have usually been oral promises or couched in the form of dinner-table toasts. This time the U.S. wanted something in writing that promised to cut off nuclear aid to Tehran. That would open the door for American firms to sell nuclear power reactors to China. When Jiang's plane had touched down three days before in Honolulu, the haggling over the form of the deal was still going on. As Jiang was conferring with Clinton in the Oval Office...