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The icons of Iran's Islamic revolution are not what they used to be. The former U.S. embassy in downtown Tehran, where radical students held 52 U.S. hostages for 444 days, retains only the faintest echo of those angry days. The anti-U.S. slogans on the compound's walls...
Twelve years after Khomeini came to power, Iran's Islamic revolution has finally softened around the edges. The signs of fitful change are everywhere. On Tehran's streets women still observe hijab (the veil), the Islamic injunction that women keep themselves covered save for their faces and hands. But some...
Much of that change, dramatic by the standards of revolutionary Iran, has been at least indirectly endorsed by President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who came to power two months after Khomeini's death. Rafsanjani has not actually called for a reversal of strict Islamic injunctions, but in oblique ways he...
Rafsanjani wants to rescue the economy by returning the nationalized industries to private hands and attracting foreign investment and technology. His government has also initiated talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in hopes of eventually obtaining loans. Those steps, however, depart from the revolution's commitment to reject outside...
Rafsanjani is quietly eager to improve ties with Washington, at least in part to get back $11 billion in American-held assets frozen in 1979. But Rafsanjani cannot easily reverse 12 years of violent rhetoric directed against the "Great Satan." So while government officials have toned down the + diatribes against...