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Arrested while vacationing with his family in Paris in September 1991, Hendi admitted seeking the visas but said he had done so innocently: Hossein Sheikhattar, a senior aide to the telecommunications minister, had asked him to help two friends enter France by inviting them as guests of Syfax. Hendi's lawyer, Jerome Herce, insists that his client's efforts to obtain visas "prove nothing," since the two alleged killers actually entered France on a different set of visas. But the prosecutor claims this fact has "no effect on the charges of complicity" in the murder...
Director Robert Hossein, who conceived the show, also mounted the first version of the musical hit Les Miserables, though in static, arena-style tableaux rather than the Broadway staging. Radio City executive producer Scott Sanders likens Jesus to Les Miz. Says he: "These shows offer pain, despair and suffering followed by hope, ending in a joyous feeling of power and faith. That is quality family entertainment." With both Jesus and Les Miz, Hossein has not so much told a story as relied on audiences to know it already. Jesus neither starts with the birth of its hero nor ends with...
Eager to show there was support for his policies, Prime Minister Mir Hossein Moussavi asked Iran's parliament last week to give him and his government a vote of confidence...
What were Saddam-Hossein's reasons for attacking Iran? Certainly, the Iraqi president hoped to take advantage of the political turmoil in Iran and the chaotic state of the Iranian army--most of its ablest generals were purged after the Shah's ouster--to settle an old border dispute. But this was the least of his motives; Saddam-Hossein, whose regime has never enjoyed full domestic support, meant to use the war to solidify his domestic political standing. Khomeini had just made public his plans to export Iran's Islamic revolution, and Iraq, with its large population...
Months after the war started, Iranian troops managed to regain almost all the territory lost to Iraq. Having counted on the advantage of a surprise attack for a quick military victory. Saddam-Hossein no longer had a real chance to win the war against Iran. The Iraqis have since tried to minimize their losses and put an end to the costly ordeal...