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              Articles MOSCOW - - The American editor of
              Forbes Magazine's Russian edition and author of a book about
              tycoon Boris Berezovsky was shot to death late Friday, July 09,
              2004, the magazine said. ****
               Bush,
              Kerry Have Different Approaches to Iran.
               WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S.
              policy toward Iran, whose nuclear policies and involvement in Iraq
              (news
              - web
              sites) fly in the face of U.S. interests, could hinge on the
              outcome of the November presidential election.
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               No
              Regrets!Nicole Sadighi
 
 In order to achieve world peace, we must change the political and
              socio-economics of the world. When the late President Ronald
              Reagan called the Soviet Empire an "Evil Empire" in 1982
              and described his "plan and hope for the march of freedom and
              democracy..."
 **** My
              fellow Iranians, Amil
              Imani The flowers of victory will once
              again blossom and the celebration of life over the celebration of death
              will begin. But until then, we must struggle against fanaticism
              with all our strength.  **** GIVE
              THE DEMOCRATS A CHANCEAmir Taheri
 
 WILL this week's transfer of
              power from the US-led coalition to Iraqis change the realities of
              life in the newly liberated country? **** Defining
              Terrorism Amir Taheri WORKING papers pre pared for
              today's NATO summit indicate that the alliance now recognizes
              international terrorism as the most potent and urgent threat to
              peace and stability throughout the world. **** Quietly,
              U.S. Prepares For Israel Strike on Iran
 The United States has been examining the prospect that Israel will
              attack Iranian nuclear facilities in an attempt to prevent the
              Islamic republic from completing an atomic bomb as early as this
              year.
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 THE SCENT OF DEMOCRACYAmir Taheri
 
 WHILE a section of the Western media continues to predict an "explosion of the Arab street," it is possible that Arab, and Muslim politics in general, may be seeking other, more institutionalized, forms of expression.
 **** Cleric's torture ban recognises Iran's record
 The Guardian
 
 The head of the Iranian judiciary issued an order yesterday banning the use of torture and other abuses: an unprecedented acknowledgement of the regime's record of repression.
 **** For Iranian Mullahs' Mission in Iraq, History is repeatedby Hedayat Mostowfi
 
 
 It would be a dangerous mistake to say we will not negotiate with terrorists but try to use the godfather of international terrorism as mediators.
 
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 Strangled, Suppressed and Betrayed Shahla Samii 1979 was the year many of us left Iran due to turmoil, uncertainty and the catastrophic events unfolding under Khomein's iron will and vengeful plans for the country and its people, cleverly shrouded under the name of Islam and social equality. *****Rafsanjanis are Iran's Power Brokers for Investors
 At 6 p.m. on Sept. 11, 2003, agents from Oekokrim, Norway's financial crimes police unit, raided the Stavanger headquarters of Statoil ASA, the nation's largest oil company. ***** 
                 An explosion of spiritual
                energy in the streets... A sudden intrusion of religion in the
                affairs of the city..." It was in these eulogising
                terms that Michel Foucault, the late French historian and
                amateur politologue -but then aren't all French intellectuals
                polyvalent?- described his experience in Tehran in the days of
                what was to be known as "the Islamic Revolution" in
                1978. ****                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |