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...Sunni extremists; moreover, Tehran has to deal both with Afghan refugees and with drug runners who have been fighting a low-level war with Iranian border guards. Iran itself has a history of sponsoring terrorism in the Middle East, and although its intelligence ministry is under the control of reformist President Mohammed Khatami, the security apparatus is not. But the government condemned last week's attacks in the U.S. (it was silent after the African embassy bombings in 1998). Says a senior Administration official: "The U.S. and Iran obviously have something of a common enemy in the Taliban," while another...
...killing of Afghan Shiite Muslims. In 1999, Iran almost went to war against the Taliban after its militia killed eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist after capturing a predominantly Shiite town, and has worked together with Russia to support anti-Taliban opposition forces. Despite the overtures between the reformist president Mohammed Khatami and the West on ways of cooperating against terrorism, hard-line spiritual leader Ayatollah Khameini insisted that while Iran condemned the terror strikes in the U.S., Tehran could not support U.S. military action against Afghanistan. Still, whether working directly with the U.S. or not, Iran remains...
...talks in Berlin was welcomed by Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. But proposals for a zone-by-zone truce seemed far from events on the ground, where at least 15 people died in continuing violence. IRAN Jailed for "Insults" A prominent member of the reformist bloc in Iran's parliament was sentenced to 22 months in prison for subversion. A judge said Fatima Haqiqatjoo's criticism of a journalist's arrest in February insulted state bodies and spread propaganda against Islam. Fellow M.P.s protested her conviction, accusing the judiciary of seeking to undermine the reformist...
...chicken, sticky rice and boned freshwater fish. A famous oenophile, he sips an expensive Bordeaux, brought to Chiang Mai from his own cellars. His entourage, a collection of cronies and political allies for whom Thaksin has been criticized, is gathered around him at other low tables. For a putative reformist, he has surrounded himself with numerous politicians associated with corruption-tainted governments from the past. Suwit Khunkitti, Shucheep Harnsawad and Sonthaya Khunpleum are seated nearby, keeping a wary eye on Thaksin as if he might wander away, leaving them once again out of power...
...Guard. So why not charge him? Government sources say they don't have enough evidence. "Saying he did it and proving it in a court of law are two different things," says an official. Perhaps more important, the Bush Administration, like its predecessor, is wary of undercutting Iran's reformist government...