... Eyes wide open and fixed on the future) MEETING Salman Rushdie, 16 months after the Iranian government publicly dissociated itself from the fanva, you can still glimpse traces of the singular weirdness that has marked his life for the past 11 years. At ...

... this border line until we are satisfied, however long It takes, the army officer Iran moves to ease censorship THE Iranian government is preparing to ease censorship of books and theatre, in line with recent changes in the flourishing Min industry Minister ...

... day. Mrs Robinson was not among their number. The bare-headed women came under much outraged pressure from both the Iranian government and the A hatless Mary Robinson greets the Pope media, and they sought support for their stance from Mrs Robinson. Which ...

... last year. then, executions are carried out every Iranian forces with night-vision gog- stomping, music- filled con he Iranian government estimates Friday after prayers. glen, jeeps and bullet-proof vests. 4 . ••• gnigation. !re are two million thus users ...

... show returns to the ROS on Saturday 31 March& Sunday AO 1 2001, Iranian-style. March dawn above a shabby neigh- The Iranian government estimates Friday after prayer! Sympathy bourhood in the Iranian capital of there are two million drug users Anyone who ...

... no shape. It wasn't until 1998 that Robin Cook, then Britain's Foreign Secretary, was able to broker a deal with the Iranian government to remove the £1.2 million bounty from the author's head. This is the second time I have met Salman Rushdie. The last ...

... mostly be directed through the UN World Food Programme and other private agencies. In a major break with the past, the Iranian Government has agreed to let international agencies distribute US food to Afghan refugees in Iran. (C) The Times, London) PRESIDENT ...

... language of Iranian soccer fans just an excuse for keeping women out? KIM BIELENBERG reports What has come over the Iranian government? Those mellow Mullahs seem to be going a bit soft. As a soccer fan might chant on the terraces, It's all gone very ...

... despised in such a way. Yet, the next day, without a trace of irony, the state news agency, IRNA, reported that the Iranian government had called on the United States to give up its animosity toward Iran. Just as we view the Islamic world through the ...

... nation. To them, football has become the perfect metaphor for change. If Ireland beat them, you get the feeling that the Iranian government will be privately relieved. It's an awful pity they didn't beat Bahrain in October and qualify automatically. With their ...

... Iraq and North Korea, seeking to threaten the world with weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them One Iranian government spokesman accused the US of behaving like a Roman gladiator. The former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani ...

... against the US. Meanwhile, in an apparent response to American pressure for Tehran to cease sponsoring terrorism, the Iranian government has arrested 16 al-Qa'ida fighters and handed them over to Saudi Arabia for interrogation. Prince Saud Faisal, the Saudi ...