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Just don't call him "King of Kings"
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The Time Magazine
The smartly dressed middle-aged man, looking a bit like a banker, charges past rows of salad dressing and diapers in the suburban Virginia Safeway, a plastic grocery basket swinging at his side. He scans the produce section until he finds what he has come for: turnips. He examines them one by one. "Too big means the root is too tough inside, too small you've got nothing left once it's peeled," the man explains as he fills up a plastic bag and twists it closed.
He is on a mission. In ancient Persian medical lore, turnips are just the thing for a cold, and Reza ... more
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Death penalty to football rioters in Iran
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The Express Chronicle
Los Angeles, Ca, USA. The Islamic republic Judiciary has condemned eight of the Esfhan residents to harsh sentences, and the other four to death, for having participated in riots which shook this city in October last year.
On October 21, unrest seized Bahrein after the Iranian national team lost in a football match with the Bahrein team. Angry fans tore down and burned holiday decorations in the streets, arranged in expectation of head of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ali-Hamenei's visit to Esfahan on October 22. Demonstrators were
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Ancient rite for a New Year
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The Washington Post
The sound pulsed up the hill to where the men were playing volleyball, over to the playground where the kids were tossing a football, and across the carpets, blankets and picnic tables where people had set out food and traditional plates of lentil grass.
Here, the sound made a hip sway. There, a hand was thrust in the air to float like a bird. In front of the disc jockey's stand, it drew a knot of young men and women who danced and danced and danced.
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Violence halts Afghan refugee flow
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BBC
A United Nations repatriation programme of tens of thousands of Afghan refugees has ground to a halt because of violence on Afghanistan's borders with Iran and Pakistan.
UN spokesman Yusuf Hassan said the violence was holding up about 40,000 refugees, with protests by poppy farmers and against electricity cuts on the eastern border with Pakistan, to factional fighting on the western border with Iran.
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Norwegian FM due in Tehran Tuesday evening
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IRNA
Tehran -- Jan Petersen will arrive here Tuesday evening for the first visit of a Norwegian foreign minister since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, the country's ambassador to
Tehran, Svein Aass told IRNA here Tuesday.
He is expected to discuss with Iranian officials, including President Mohammad Khatami, Parliament Speaker Mehdi Karroubi and
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Ethnic Attacks in Afghanistan
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Human Rights Watch
New York -- Targeted violence and looting by ethnic militias has uprooted Pashtun communities across northern Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The displacement and insecurity could undermine the loya jirga process, which begins at the district level on April 13 and will lead in June to the selection of a new government for a two-year transitional period.
"If northern Pashtuns are unable to take part in district or regional meetings to choose their representatives ...
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Testing the 'Axis of Evil'
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The Christian Science Monitor
In 1983, President Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire." Eight years later, the Soviet Union was gone.
In 1987, he went to Berlin and demanded: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Two years later, the wall fell.
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Problem of smuggling by influential people, state bodies
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BBC Monitoring Service
Ordinarily speaking, when the subject of unemployment comes to the fore, people subconsciously develop a tendency to focus on ways of creating new job opportunities. This is while safeguarding the existing employment opportunities is much more crucial than creating new ones since our industrial sector is grappling with serious financial shortcomings. Under such circumstances,
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Investigation of another financial corruption case to start soon
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The Tehran Times
The Chief Judge of the Airport Judicial Complex has announced that investigations into another financial corruption case related to the Atlas Aviation Company will soon begin.
He added that the trial will begin in two weeks and will be open to public.
After receiving information about irregularities, the Legal Department of the Oil Ministry filed a complaint against the aviation company.
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More floggings and inflation - the fruits of reform in Iran
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The Washington Post
The sound pulsed up the hill to where the men were playing volleyball, over to the playground where the kids were tossing a football, and across the carpets, blankets and picnic tables where people had set out food and traditional plates of lentil grass.
Here, the sound made a hip sway. There, a hand was thrust in the air to float like a bird. In front of the disc jockey's stand, it drew a knot of young men and women who danced and danced and danced.
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Top cleric calls on Muslims to support Palestinians
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IRNA
Isfahan -- Representative of the Velayat-e Faqih and Friday prayers leader of Isfahan called here Monday on the Muslims worldwide to support Palestinians in their anti-Israel struggle.
Ayatollah Seyed Jalaleddin Taheri added that the most important obligation of Muslims throughout the globe is now to provide effective support to the Palestinians who are now targets of the Zionists'
atrocities and inhuman acts.
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Iranian MP: September 11 events a pretext for crushing Palestinians
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IRNA
Tehran -- An MP here on Tuesday said the continuation of the Israeli regime's offenses across the occupied lands is a small part of Israel's "plot chain."
Morteza Shirzadi, a representative from Qasr-e Shirin, Sar Pol-e Zahab and Gilan-Gharb, in his pre-agenda speech said that the aim of the afore-stated chain, created by both the United States and Israel,
is to justify the establishment and recognition of Isreal's dominance over the occupied territories and elimination of the Palestinian state from the geographical map.
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Iraq's decision to halt oil places Iran in awkward position
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Iran Press Service
PARIS -- Iraqi President Saddam Hossein announced Monday an immediate month-long suspension of all Iraqi oil exports to protest Israel's incursion into Palestinian areas of the West Bank, placing its Iranian neighbour in a difficult position.
The unilateral decision, halting two million barrels a day, coupled with oil strike in Venezuela, resulted in an immediate increase of oil prices, with the Brent closing in London at US Dollar 27, one dollar up from previous day.
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Afghan official survives motorcade bombing
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USA Today
KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb blew up in front of a convoy of cars in which Afghanistan's defense minister was traveling, one of several outbreaks of violence in the country.
The apparent assassination attempt took place in Jalalabad, where the interim government is trying to eradicate the growing of poppies for heroin. The bomb ripped through a crowd of people who had lined the streets to greet Defense Minister Muhammad Qassem Fahim as
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Hizbullah tests Israeli nerves with cross-border attacks
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The Daily Star
Hizbullah shelled Israeli outposts in the Shebaa Farms for a fourth successive day Monday as Israel decided not to retaliate harshly to the weekend’s cross-border attacks, granting diplomacy a final chance to bring calm to the volatile frontier with Lebanon.
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Discussing the Middle East
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Fox News
SNOW:And now it's panel time for Brit Hume and Fox News contributors Mara Liasson, national political correspondent for National Public Radio, Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, and Juan Williams, national correspondent for National Public Radio.
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Afghanistan's neighbors
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The Boston Globe
Stability in postwar Afghanistan will be a primary objective of US policy for some time to come. Afghanistan cannot be permitted to relapse into the condition of a failed state.
To foster the rehabilitation of Afghanistan - a difficult long-term project - the United States and its allies must take care not only to help facilitate domestic reconciliation and representative self-government but also to help the Afghans protect themselves against renewed meddling by their neighbors, particularly Pakistan and Iran.
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Guns before butter
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The Economist
A lot has been achieved in Afghanistan. Taliban rule is a distant memory, the al-Qaeda terrorists whom they sheltered are reduced to fighting a losing battle from remote hideouts, and the long work of rebuilding a nation shattered by more than two decades of war has begun. More than $4 billion has already been pledged by donors for the purpose. Beards are disappearing, if not yet many burqas, and a date has been set in mid-June for the calling of the loya jirga—a mainly elected constitutional assembly of 1,450 delegates which will choose a representative government.
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US-based Muslim, Arab groups urged to help unmask terror cells
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Center For Security Policy
The Pentagon on 9/11. Terrorists won’t be able to operate as freely if their ethnic communities help authorities go after them.
Arab and Muslim groups in the U.S. should quit complaining about federal anti-terrorist investigations, "stand up to greater scrutiny," and "police our communities for sleeper agents," a Muslim American argues in the Washington Post.
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Bush Administration targets Muslim charities aiding terrorists
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Central Research Center
Summary: In the U.S. war on terrorism, federal authorities are shutting down Muslim charities that provide aid to international terrorist organizations, including Al-Qaeda. Some Muslim-American groups criticized the closures as unjust. Others say more should be done to combat Islamic extremism.
Dec. 4, 2001 marked a turning point in the war on terrorism. Less than three months after hijackers killed 3,000 Americans, President Bush issued an order putting terrorists all over the world on notice. The President's order was not directed at Afghanistan or Iraq, but at an office in the Dallas suburb of
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Bush administration: replacing Arafat by Oreikat
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Arabic News
The Saudi daily al-Watan issued on Sunday said that the US administration wants the official in charge of the local rule in the Palestinian Authority Saeb Oreikat to replace the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat.
The paper added quoting a European diplomatic source that the US President George Bush and the British Prime minister Tony Blair agreed during their meeting on Saturday in Texas on the need of alienating Arafat from any talks to be held to ease down conditions, noting that Bush clings that peace can be achieved without ... more
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Ben-Eliezer to Rumsfeld: Pressure Syria to stop attacks
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Jerusalem Post
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer today told US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that Israel "Would not sit with its arms folded," if Hizbullah cross-border attacks from Lebanon against Israel continue.
"The escalation that has been created by Hizbullah is endangering the stability on the border," Ben-Eliezer said in a telephone conversation between the two.
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Moral Styrofoam: The elite’s problem
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The National Review
" Yes, I wish it were possible that we could recall the prize," Hanna Kvanmo told the Agence France Press. Ms. Kvanmo serves on the five-member committee that gave Yasser Arafat the 1994 Nobel Peace prize. She's not alone in her sentiments. "I cannot hide my deep disappointment and despair," committee member and Oslo bishop Gunnar Staalsett lamented, agreeing that the Peace prize should be withdrawn. Odvar Nordli, former Norwegian prime minister and another committee member, concurred.
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Saudi Arabia welcomes foreigners to work in nation
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The Tehran Times
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Behind an unmarked wall in the heart of Jeddah's electronics market, Mohammed Younis surveys the rows of small marble plaques covering infidel graves.
"Here, it's nothing -- just baby, baby, baby," says Mr. Younis, the guardian of the only proper cemetery for non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia, the world's most rigorously Islamic state.
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