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...winner from Iran? [Ebadi was the first Muslim woman and the first Iranian to ever win the Prize.]MM: I don’t know much about political issues in the wider world, but there are women in Pakistan’s history that I respect very much. Fatima Zahra, the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, and then Fatima Jinnah, the sister of the founding father of Pakistan [Muhammed Ali Jinnah], who helped him create my country. These two are personalities that inspire me.THC: You mentioned earlier the necessity of an internal drive for change. Could you speak a little...
...focusing public attention on the country's external adversaries, Ahmadinejad has sidestepped criticism for not addressing the country's internal social problems. Despite $60-per-bbl. oil prices, 16% of Iranians remain unemployed. Zahra Rassai, 46, a mother of four teenage sons, voted for Ahmadinejad, hoping he would reduce college tuition. "Nothing has improved in my daily life, but that doesn't matter," she says. "If we Iranians rallied together and boycotted Western products, they wouldn't have the right to dictate to us." It's just as likely, though, that the nuclear dispute will produce pain for Iran...
...committed to destroying Israel but also widely viewed among Palestinians as a vehicle for clean and competent government. "I came here today to vote for Hamas," Mustaffa, 46, told Time outside a polling station in Hebron. "Perhaps my vote will contribute to getting rid of PA corruption." Hamas supporter Zahra was eager to talk up her party. "We have to prove to the whole world that Hamas is concerned about the future of the Palestinians," she said soon after voting. Asked what sort of future that would be, she walked on without replying...
...Gohari family reunions take place in the Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery at the edge of the dusty Veramin plain on the outskirts of Tehran. Hussein Gohari, 14, squats next to the graves where his father Essa and his brothers Hassan and Ali lie, all killed in the conflict with Iraq. His mother, like many of the other widows at the cemetery, carefully washes her husband's gravestone, then sits with one hand on it in prayer. "We come every Friday," says Hussein. Soon his mother may be left alone to tend the graves. Hussein is ready, eager even, to join...
This gathering of the living and the dead and the vows of vengeance have become a weekly ritual for Iranian families since the conflict with neighboring Iraq began to reap its harvest of victims, estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000. The graves at Behesht-e Zahra are tightly packed, sometimes no more than 6 in. apart, and they are advancing rapidly in tree-lined squares toward the perimeter of the 1.5-sq.-mi. cemetery. Aluminum-and-glass display cases contain photographs of the dead, many of them teenagers, along with family heirlooms. Most also bear a picture...