Word: iranians
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...base to treat minor injuries. "I saw six or seven people who were wounded; bleeding from their faces and legs. It was scary," one witness told the Associated Press. "Tonight I take the bus." Paris was last hit by a wave of bombings in 1986, when terrorists -- apparently an Iranian-backed Lebanese group -- killed 13 people and injured more than...
...schism between a diminishing core of loyal revolutionaries and the rest of Iranian society is growing. The divide is religious, political and especially cultural. "When I came back from the war with Iraq, I was disgusted," says a Revolutionary Guard commander. "I saw my friends martyred, and here all the young people wanted was to be like Madonna and Michael Jackson." By their way of dress, Iranians signal where they stand in the cultural divide. Devout revolutionaries wear dark colors. Men favor baggy trousers, long-sleeved shirts buttoned to the neck and several days' growth of beard; women wear layers...
...potent is Iran's variety of militant political Islam? To Bill Clinton and Warren Christopher, it is one of the most dangerous forces on earth. But listen to what an Iranian housewife named Hafezeh has to say. Earlier this month, just before the sixth anniversary of the death of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, she sat on a carpet inside his gold-domed mausoleum. Under her loosely draped chador she wore blue jeans and a bright turquoise blouse...
...Islamic Jihad "support for terrorism." These groups say they are fighting Israeli occupation. Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati asserts that the government "is against any kind of terrorism" and implies that hard-liners trying to sabotage Iran's relations with the West are responsible for the many assassinations of Iranian opponents in Europe...
Khan Professor of Iranian P. Oktor Skjaervowill be the Department's chair, beginning thisfall...