A disaffected generation bodes ill for Iran
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TEHRAN -- Their cheeks were bitten by the threat of snow, but the sisters had nowhere else to go. They had coated their faces with makeup and painted their eyelashes until they looked too heavy to blink, gaudy faces to offset drab denims and black coats. This afternoon, their spirits hung as low as the brooding clouds over the mountains.
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Iran experiences one of its harshest winters in decades, with snow closing schools and roads.
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No one familiar with Iranâs record of broken promises on its hidden nuclear weapons program will be surprised by the allegations leveled against Tehran this week.
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Iran's approach to human rights and its treatment of its own citizens is loathsome, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. While saying Iranians deserve better leaders than "unelected mullahs," America's new chief diplomat stopped short of demanding their ouster.
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Many young people are throwing off their generationâs reputation for slovenly language, and taking up the gauntlet for good grammar.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have gained greater short-term power with the resignation of Iran's top nuclear negotiator, but the departure appears to have further damaged the president's standing among many conservatives in the Islamic republic.
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Iran's leaders apparently believe that the benefits of obtaining a nuclear bomb now outweigh the drawbacks.
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Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic Revolution but are now letting up slightly
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Iran is the country most people around the world would like see having less power, followed closely by the United States, a new opinion poll showed on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK -- On the eve of his first trip to Washington, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami warned that U.S. military action in the Middle East has backfired, producing greater terrorism, imperiling the future of Iraq and damaging America's long-term interests.
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Middle Eastern peoples, with the exception of Israelis and some Iranians, reacted with resigned disappointment on Wednesday to US election results expected to give President Bush four more years in power.
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Iranians may have lost faith in the mullahs, but they're not about to overthrow them.
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Washington's drive toward regime change in Iran is only rallying the country around its radical president.
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Washington may want to label it a global terrorist organization. But in Iran the concern is over the military group's growing economic clout
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The jailing of an Iranian-American grandmother may be evidence that Bush's pro-democracy effort is backfiring
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Iran said Sunday it was downgrading its representation at a ministerial meeting of Iraq's neighbors in Jordan this week, apparently to protest accusations by Jordan's monarch that Iran was trying to influence the upcoming Iraqi elections.
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President Bush isn't the only leader facing serious economic woes. Icy weather is causing big political trouble for Iran's hard-line president, who is under attack for mismanaging the economy as the country runs perilously low on gas for heat.