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Resolution in U.S. Congress Expresses True Iranian Sentiments
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Iran va Jahan
By Shaheen Fatemi
Last week Congressman Gutkneck introduced a historic resolution about
Iran in the U. S. Congress.
This resolution is intended to express
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The Revolution Continues, What's brewing in Iran.
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The National Review
Norouz, the Persian New Year, is a Zoroastrian festival, and does not meet with the favor of the ruling Iranian tyrants.
Against the background of the many anti-regime street demonstrations during recent months, the country's Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei warned the people not to celebrate Norouz.
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The Newt World Order
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The New Yorker
The Bush Administration may have a brand-new doctrine of power.
When there is a change of command—and not just in government—the new
people often persuade themselves that the old people were much worse
than anyone suspected.
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Selected quotations from a Monitor Breakfast with former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft
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Christian Science Monitor
On what went wrong with US intelligence on Sept. 11:
"One of the principal problems we have is that the borders of the United States are a huge issue for the collection of intelligence.
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The 1930s, Again, A hard rain is going to fall.
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The National Review
In some ways in our war against the terrorists we are like the democracies of the late 1930s.
They knew that there was more to Hitler than his avowed quest for the return of the Sudetenland or the Alsace-Lorraine.
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The rational ordering of the Middle East cannot be achieved by propitiating thugs and tyrants.
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NR
Just imagine that day after remorseless day Osama bin Laden were organizing suicide attacks against American targets.
Just imagine that his propagandists were proclaiming that these attacks would stop only when bin Laden's demands were met in full.
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Democracy can conquer hate
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The International Herald Tribune
Yemen's example
SAN'A, Yemen At a roadside stand here I picked up some cassette tapes of speeches by radical Muslim leaders.
"We are asking for those who are killing us to be killed - Jews," thunders one.
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Jack Straw's Vision of "Re-Ordering The World"
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Kayhan (London) Newspaper
By Nazenin Ansari Moshiri
- " Experience should teach us that large-scale abuse of human rights is often a precursor of failed states or of serious regional instability. Some of the most serious challenges in foreign policy today have their roots in the human rights abuses of years ago."
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'72 Black Eyed Virgins': A Muslim Debate on the Rewards of Martyrs
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The Middle East Media research Institute
Approximately two weeks prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, DC a dispute emerged between the CBS network and heads of two Islamic organizations in the U.S. regarding the motivation of suicide bombers in Israel.
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Iran pays bounty for terror acts, say U.S., Israel
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The New York Times
TEL AVIV - Iran is paying Palestinian terrorists millions of dollars in bounties for launching suicide attacks against Israel, according to U.S. and Israeli intelligence officials.
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Man fears for his life, the Mujahedeen Khalq vowed to kill family, Ottawa father says
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National Post
OTTAWA - An Ottawa man says he fears for the lives of his wife and two young children after members of the Mujahedeen Khalq -- an Iraq-based Iranian terrorist organization controlled by Saddam Hussein -
- attacked him at an Iranian community meeting, then vowed to kill him and his family.
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Three armed bandits killed, drugs seized in southeast Iran
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BBC Monitoring Service
More than 250 kg of narcotic substances have been uncovered and seized in operations carried out by the combatants of Abu-Zar Base in Kerman Province. My colleague, Saremi, reports from the Kerman News Unit:
[Saremi] Thanks to the efforts of the selfless combatants of the Abu-Zar tactical base, located in Kerman Province, three armed bandits have been killed.
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Over 100 Killed In Over 900 Road Accidents In Iran Monday
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Dow Jones News Wires
TEHRAN, Iran -- In the deadliest day of road accidents in Iran, 122 people died and almost 2,000 were injured Monday in more than 900 different accidents, state-run Tehran television reported.
The TV broadcast said such a high number of traffic casualties was unprecedented.
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China and Iran threaten test ban treaty
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The Guardian
China and Iran have withdrawn their contribution to monitoring nuclear tests, apparently in protest at Washington's hostility towards the comprehensive test ban treaty raising the fear that the treaty may collapse before it has come into operation.
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Maverick Iranian director wants viewers to get less out of the films they watch
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The Daily Star
Abbas Kiarostami says more obscurity is needed in face of a capitalized market bent on saturating its audience with content
Abbas Kiarostami is something of a curiosity.
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Woman won't die by stoning
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AP
LAGOS, Nigeria - (AP) -- A Muslim appeals court on Monday acquitted a Nigerian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, saying there was not enough evidence to justify meting out the harsh punishment under Islamic law.
Tambari Usman, one of four appeals judges sitting on Monday's panel in the northern city of Sokoto, said an alleged confession by Safiya Hussaini was inadmissible ...
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Two top Al Qaeda leaders spotted
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The Christian Science Monitor
Local Afghan commander says bin Laden and his No. 2 have been in the Khost area.
KHOST, AFGHANISTAN – Afghan military officials working with US forces in Khost say that the top two leaders of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri, have both been seen in the area over the past eight days.
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Police Question Men in Pakistan Attack
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Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan –– Pakistani police are questioning several Iranian and Iraqi nationals as part of their probe into the March 17 grenade attack on an international church that killed five people, including two Americans.
The capital's new police chief, Rao Mohammed Iqbal, said investigators were looking for links to Islamic extremists, but would not say whether the people being questioned were suspects in the attack.
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Rushdie slams British press in German interview
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Reuters
BERLIN (Reuters) - Author Salman Rushdie was quoted on Monday as saying he believed some of his critics in the British media were disappointed he had not been assassinated under an Islamic death order.
In an interview with Germany's Der Speigel weekly, Rushdie also said the cost of security for his protection was less than the 11 million pounds ($16 million) reported in the British media. He said he paid more in taxes than his security cost.
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Straw signals decisive new era for foreign policy
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Guardian
Britain must "stand up to bullies like Saddam" rather than indulge them as governments had done in the past, Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, said yesterday.
In a speech spelling out the central issues that will drive Labour's policy after September 11, Mr Straw said Britain's best interests were best served by an "active and engaged global foreign policy" working with its allies to push back the "boundaries of chaos".
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