... 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 ...

... reward would be payable with “any earnings it had accrued”.” - - - O *” The bounty was first offered in. 1998 after the Iranian government officially abandoned its support for the fatwa. -~ . Yesterday;, the Iranian:foreign minister, Kamal Kharazzi, said ...

... had to respect the opinions of the town’s people”. passes on to distant markets, more than enough stays in Iran. The Iranian government estimates that there are more than two million drug users among Iran’s 65 million people of whom 1.2 million are addicted ...

... spokesman said the authorities had found an Iranian 60mm mortar and two unexploded bombs in the area. Iraq holds the Iranian government responsible for “flagrant aggression against its security and sovereig;fl‘ and “reserves the right to take suitable action” ...

... le as those of the Libyan defector who is expected to denounce his former - colleagues from the witness box. - T he Iranian government remains in a strong position of “plausible deniability”. The phrase is part of the lexicon of international power politics ...

... seemed to international observers, rima facie, an open and shut case. F)qspite a formal denial of involvement from the Iranian government it was widely believed that the wild- Eypd mullahs, a decade after the ranacking of the US Embassy in Tref)eran and ...

... doubt over their clients’ guilt by arguing the bombing was carried out ba a Palestinian group, with the backing of the Iranian government. The trial continues. ! A Foreign Office spokesm yesterday said Britain remain: sceptical about Mr Behbahani claims ...

... 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 ...

... Iran muddies water on oil price By Paul Tranter in Tehran THE Iranian government, which has been among the most prominent proponents of efforts to raise the oil price, said yesterday the current $3O figure may not be in the longterm interests of producers ...

... world. 1 wrote this book not for business and it is not against government or against faith. 1 have no hate -for the Iranian government. I wrote this book because I made a promise to my Bahd'i friends.” Olya lives in Sydney now with her husband. She travels ...

... charges in a‘“medieval”: trial. By . In a statement last night, President Clinton said: * “We are deeply disappointed the Iranian government has again failed to act as a society based ‘'on the rule of law, to which the Iranian people aspire.” - ““But Iran’s ...

... 01 Friday with sufficient vigour, that Leeds fans are too gentle with David Beckham, and that the Iranian government secretly wants the country to become the 51st state of the USA. ...