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Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Barbie Doll a Clue to 'Huge Explosion' in Iran
"Islamic morals police have raided and seized those obnoxious symbols of the American way of life - Barbie dolls - being sold in hundreds of shops around Tehran. But that's not the only reason that the Bush administration is being warned by intelligence officials that Iran could be on the brink of some huge internal explosion," United Press International reported today.
Consider:
Spies detect "signs of panic" in Iranian hard-liners' attacks on those seeking detente with Washington. Iran's so-called Justice Department has decreed that publication of anything favoring talks with America is a crime.
Iranian reformer Mohsen Mirdamadi is named in an official complaint that could lead to his prosecution.
Iran's "supreme leader," the Ayatollah Ali Khameini, has publicly rejected talks with Washington as "an insult to the Iranian people."
A pro-detente newspaper, the Bonyan, has been closed. Reformist commentator Ahmad Zeibabadi was slapped with a two-year prison sentence.
"Meantime, the bulk of Iran's population, more than 70 percent of it under 22 years of age, is writhing with frustration, prompting Iran's elected President Mohammad Khatami to say: 'This revolution happened because people wanted an Islamic republic, not an Islamic dictatorship.' Stay tuned," says UPI .
Barbie Doll a Clue to 'Huge Explosion' in Iran
"Islamic morals police have raided and seized those obnoxious symbols of the American way of life - Barbie dolls - being sold in hundreds of shops around Tehran. But that's not the only reason that the Bush administration is being warned by intelligence officials that Iran could be on the brink of some huge internal explosion," United Press International reported today.
Consider:
Spies detect "signs of panic" in Iranian hard-liners' attacks on those seeking detente with Washington. Iran's so-called Justice Department has decreed that publication of anything favoring talks with America is a crime.
Iranian reformer Mohsen Mirdamadi is named in an official complaint that could lead to his prosecution.
Iran's "supreme leader," the Ayatollah Ali Khameini, has publicly rejected talks with Washington as "an insult to the Iranian people."
A pro-detente newspaper, the Bonyan, has been closed. Reformist commentator Ahmad Zeibabadi was slapped with a two-year prison sentence.
"Meantime, the bulk of Iran's population, more than 70 percent of it under 22 years of age, is writhing with frustration, prompting Iran's elected President Mohammad Khatami to say: 'This revolution happened because people wanted an Islamic republic, not an Islamic dictatorship.' Stay tuned," says UPI .
