CONDOLEEZZA RICE: ANTI-THEOCRATIC SHIA IN IRAQ THREATEN MULLAHS IN TEHRAN; U.S. CAN’T AFFORD TO WAIT FOR IMMINENT DANGER TO PREEMPT; PUTIN’S KREMLIN HAS TOO MUCH POWER; TOUGH U.S. STANCE HAS GIVEN NEW LIFE TO NPT; UNRAVELING KHAN NETWORK PROVES NORTH KOREA SEEKS HEU BOMB Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor to U.S. President George Bush, sat […]
NOBEL LAUREATES February 20. 2004 IF SHIITE MAJORITY COMES TO POWER IN IRAQ, IT WILL ENHANCE DEMOCRACY IN IRAN Abdolkarim Soroush, the Iranian scholar of Islam, is widely regarded, by critics and supporters alike, as “the Martin Luther of Islam.” His most important work is “The Hermeneutical Expansion and Contraction of the Theory of Shariah.” […]
D+C Development and Coopeartaion 2/2004 By Katajun Amirpur Conservative mullahs continue to hold political sway in Iran but they are no longer in control of the interpretation of religious rules. Today, open-minded theologians are working on a liberal interpretation of Islam, which is attracting attention even beyond Iran’s borders. The most prominent of the new […]
