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After three months of a bombing campaign led by Saudi Arabia, Yemen is in the grips of a humanitarian crisis, reports CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward.Aid groups are calling the situation catastrophic and civilians are bearing the brunt of this conflict. Many houses have been destroyed and desperately needed water, gas and medical supplies are not able to get into the country.High-ranking al Qaeda leader reported killed in YemenAt the Thawra Hospital, rooms are filled with people who have been injured by the bombing. But ICU doctor Ali al-Mustafa explained that they simply don t have the supplies they need to properly treat them all. Yemen Civil War 07:34 No water, no electricity, no medicines, no dialysis and no do yeezy ctors even, he said, calling the crisis alarming and warning that the hospital could be forced to halt operations at any moment. Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world and an estimated 80 percent of people are in need of aid. crocs badelatschen adidas originals Inside Yemen s war-torn capital 17 photos A Saudi blockade by air and by sea means that very little is getting into the Lgxh Amid crisis, refugees face numerous health risks
Israel s army released a photograph showing a Palesti stanley thermobecher nian baby dressed like a suicide bomber with fake ammunition belts and explosives strapped to its body and a headband of the Islamic militant group Hamas.The British television network Sky News interviewed a man who said he was the baby s uncle. The man said the pi stanley mug cture mdash; which appeared in Israeli newspapers Friday mdash; was aut stanley becher hentic. Col. Miri Eisin, a senior intelligence analyst for the army, said the ammunition probably was not real. The picture was originally taken during a rally or a graduation party at the university, the baby s uncle, who wasn t identified, said. There were TV stations there, photographers, and I think the picture was circulated after it was published by these agencies or over the Internet. Sky News filmed him from the back in low light to conceal his identity at his request.Eisin said the picture was found Tuesday in the family album of a senior member of Hamas who is wanted by the army during a search of his home in the West Bank city of Hebron. She said she did not know if the baby mdash; who appeared to be about 12 to 18 months old mdash; was the Hamas activist s son or relative. She refused to identify the wanted man. Eisin said soldiers photographed the picture and left the original in the family album. She said the soldiers had been looking in the family album for an up-to-date picture of the wanted Palestinian.Pictures of older children dressing up as suicide bombers are n

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The Reykjaviacute;k Global Forum ndash; Women Leaders, held this year from Monday, November 9 through Wednesday, November 11, features airmax plus panels and fireside discussions with an array of accomplished leaders in politics, business, health and media.Below is a list of just some of the event s notable speakers. See the full schedule here, and watch the event live on CBSNews.H adidas campus illary Clinton, former U.S. presidential candidateFormer Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at the Reykjaviacute;k Global Forum ndash; Women Leaders on Monday, November 9 at 10:3 adidas campus herren 0 a.m. ET.Clinton has decades of experience as a civil servant, serving as a senator from New York during a period that included the September 11 terror attacks, former President Obama s secretary of state during the Osama bin Laden raid, and first lady during Bill Clinton s presidency. In 2015, Clinton made history as the first woman to be nominated as a major party s presidential candidate.Clinton took part in a virtual fireside chat with Melanne Verveer, executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security. It was expected to be Clinton s first speaking engagement since the 2020 election. Maria Ressa, journalistFilipino-American journalist Maria Ressa has spent years fighting for journalistic and democratic freedom, including as the co-founder and CEO of Rappler, an online news service in the Philippines that has faced controversy as a result of its critical cov Ymwm Julian Assange faces new indictment in the U.S.
KABUL, Afghanistan - The number of Afghan civilians killed in war-related violence rose 15 percent in the first half of this ye stanley cup website ar, according to a U.N. report rel stanley quencher eased Thursday that offered grim statistics about the human toll of increased fighting.Violence has been on the rise as the Taliban and other insurgents try to regain territory lost in the fall stanley quencher and winter to the U.S.-led coalition in southern Afghanistan.Fighting always picks up in the spring after the opium poppy crop is harvested in the south and the snow melts elsewhere in the mountainous country, allowing insurgents to move more freely. But suicide attacks and other bombings have intensified as militants try to undermine confidence in the Afghan government s ability to provide security as the U.S. begins to withdraw some forces.CBSNews Special Coverage: AfghanistanIn a midyear report, the U.N. said 1,462 Afghan civilians lost their lives in the crossfire of the battle between Taliban insurgents and Afghan, U.S. and NATO forces. During the first half of last year, 1,271 Afghan civilians were killed. May was the deadliest month for Afghan civilians since the United Nations started tracking deaths in 2007, with 368 killed.The number of civilians injured rose too 151; by 7 percent. In the first six months of the year, 2,144 civilians were injured compared with 1,997 during the same time last year. They are caught in the middle 151; caught between two sides and have little places of refuge and little protect

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VATICAN CITY -- The Shroud of Turin, the burial cloth some believe covered Jesus, will go back on public display next year. Young Jesus and Shroud of Turin 25 photos Pope Francis said Wednesday he will go to that northern Italian city June 21 to view that 14-foot-long cloth, which is kept in a climate-controlled case in Turin s cathedral.As during the last display in 2010, reservations are required for the April 19-June 24 viewing but there is no charge.Papal predecessor Benedict XVI has descri adidas samba og bed the cloth as an icon written with the blood of a crucified man, but didn t dive into scientific questions. Skeptics say the linen bearing the figure of a crucified man is medieval forgery.Turin Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia, has called the shroud both reality and deep mystery to which science hasn t given concrete answers. In 1978, a group of respected American scientists and scholars calling themselves the Shroud of Turin Research Project or STURP were given 120 hours to subject the Shroud to a CS -like forensic study. Working 24 hours a day, they set out to discover how the image was ma air max 1 de, and if it was a fake. They couldn t. yeezy slide The Vatican has tiptoed around just what the cloth is, calling it a powerful symbol of Christ s suffering while makin Aoes Iraq Heats Up After Bounty Offer
American journalist Paul Salopek was released Saturday from a prison in the war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on espionage charges, the Chicago Tribune reported on its Web site.A judge in the el-Fasher courthouse released the Chicago Tribune journalist and his Chadian driver and interpreter after a 13-minute hearing. We are stopping the case and we are releasing you right now. And that is all, the judge said in English, the Tribune r stanley quencher eported.Bill Richardson, the governor of the U.S. state of New Mexico, had traveled to Sudan on Friday to meet with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and secure their release on humanitarian grounds. He traveled to el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, on Saturday to pick up Salopek and his colleagues and was scheduled to return to Khartoum Saturday night. I m doing great, Salopek told the Tribune after his release. It s an interesting feeling being mobile again, in a mechanized vehicle. The journalist, who won Pulitzer Prizes in 2001 and in 1998, was on assignment for stanley cup National Geographic magazine at the time of his arrest. He was scheduled to return to New Mexico, where he has a home, as early as Sunday, and his two assistants to Chad, according to the Tribune. I think this is a triumph of di stanley cup plomacy. It shows we can make a difference even if we have wide differences, which the United States and Sudan do, said Richardson, the Tribune reported.Salopek s wife, Linda Lynch, and Chicago Tribune Editor Ann

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Sandringham, Englandmdash; Britain s Queen Elizabeth II presided Monday over an unprecedented meeting of royal family members amid turmoil over Prince Harry and Meghan s decision to step back from their royal duties. Harry, his brother William and his father Prince Charles gathered at the queen s home in eastern England to thrash out a solution.Afterwards, the queen issued a statement saying they had very constructive discussions on the future of my grandson and his family. She said she and the royal family are entirely supportive of Harry and Meghan s desire to create a new life as a young family and understand their wish to live a mo adidas campus donna re independent life. But the queen added, we would have preferred them to remain full-time working Members of the Royal Family. She said there would be a period of transition in which Harry and Meghan will spend time in Canada and the U.K. while further details of these complex matters are resolved.The meeting took place at the royal estate at Sandringham, which CBS News correspondent Charlie D Agata reports is one of the queen s favorite country retreats mdash; a place she usually goes to get away from it all. But Monday it was the scene of a crisis summit that could impact the royal family for generations to air max 1 come.It w crocs winterstiefel as no friendly family gathering, but an unprecedented meeting called after Harry and Meghan said they wanted to pull out of their senior royal duties and spend more time in North America. The shock public announcement Tkml Mass Animal Sacrifice a Go Despite Protest
German Interior Minister Otto Schily said on Monday both Germany and Tunisia were 100 percent sure a truck explosion which killed 11 German tourists in a Tunisian resort earlier this month was a terrorist attack. Tunisian a stanley cups uk uthorities, who at first said they believed the explosion was an accident, stanley cup have since said they were investigating in all directions. Germany is now convinced that this was 100 percent a criminal, terrorist act, Schily told reporters in Tunis. He was speaking at the close of a two-day visit to Tunisia, where he met investigators and had talks with stanley mug President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.On April 11, a truck loaded with gasoline exploded near the entrance of the Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba, killing 16 people, including 11 German tourists.Schily said investigators believe terrorists were behind the blast because of the way gas tanks were mounted in the truck, the substances in the tanks and how the explosion took place. Given the ongoing investigation, I can t give you details, he said in German, with his comments translated into French. He said his meeting with Ben Ali produced extremely interesting details. Schily said Tunisian authorities had pledged to increase security measures, and that he did not feel it was necessary to issue a travel warning to German citizens. About 1 million Germans visit Tunisia each year. I don t think there is a reason to issue a travel alert, there have been several countries targeted wit

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State media reported Saturday that Russian authorities detained 11 people mdash; including four su nike air force spected gunmen mdash; for their involvement in a deadly attack on a crowded concert hall near Moscow on Friday th adidas samba og at has left at least 133 people dead.The attack left hundreds more injured, Russian officials said. The four suspects were stopped in the Bryansk region of western Russia, not far from the border with Ukrai nike dunk ne, Russia s Investigative Committee said. They planned to cross the border into Ukraine and had contacts there, state news agency Tass said, citing Russia s FSB. The head of the FSB briefed President Vladimir Putin on the arrests on Saturday, according to Tass.Videos circulated on Russian social media show pandemonium inside the large concert hall, which is connected to a shopping mall. Videos show people screaming and ducking for cover as gunmen fire volley after volley of automatic gunfire. Other clips show the gunmen firing, sometimes at point-blank range. The attackers also set the venue on fire, causing a partial collapse of the building s roof. The terror attack left at least 115 dead. CBS News The shots were constant, eyewitness Dave Primov told CBS News. People panicked and started to run. Some fell down and were trampled on. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the attack. A U.S. official told CBS News that the U.S. h Ajfa Coronavirus cases worldwide jump from 10 million to 15 million in less than a month
After two centuries of neutrality, Switzerland found itself in a bizarre and unprecedented situation Friday, facing a would-be holy war announced by stanley kubek Libya s Moammar Gadhafi.The Swiss government declined to comment on Gadhafi s latest salvo in a simmering diplomatic saga stemming from the Geneva police s 2008 arrest and brief detainment of his son, Hannibal, and his wife for allegedly beating up their servants.Although Gadhafi s jihad declaration late Thursday was widely viewed as a stunt by a leader given to outlandish behavior, the danger was difficult to dismiss in an era of Islamic-Western foment over issues ranging from headdress bans in Europe to faraway Middle East disputes, Iran s nuclear program and Nordic newspapers caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.Analysts urg gourde stanley ed caution and Swiss citizens and politicians expressed alarm that a nation which managed to steer clear of direct involvement in the world wars and other bloody European conflicts was being dragged into an incr stanley cupe easingly messy - if still nonviolent - conflict with an unpredictable government. You never know with crazies, nationalist lawmaker Oskar Freysinger told The Associated Press. I can imagine that this won t be taken very seriously. But nevertheless, it s the head of a state making a declaration of war against Switzerland. There was no sign of a security alert, however, or heightened official vigilance.Gadhafi called for the holy war ostensibly because of a recent Swiss referendum that ba

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LONDON - Authorities in England cordonedoff flooded marshes Wednesday to investigate the crash of a military helicopterthat killed four U.S. Air Force crewmembers.The Pave Hawk helicopter slammed intothe eastern coast during a low-level training mission Tuesday evening. Teamscombing the marshes have been hampered by bullets scattered across the sceneand have not yet recovered the crew s remains. We have currently cordoned offabout 400 square meters 500 square yards of the marshland area, saidChief Superintendent Bob Scully of Norfolk Police. The crash site itselfI would describe as an area of debris on difficult terrain on the marsh. Local authorities are carrying out adaylight investigation, and the bodies will be removed afterward. The aircraftwas assigned to the 48th Fighter Wing, but the names of the crewme mizuno handballschuh mbers will bereleased only after families are notified.Pave Hawks - a modified version of thebetter-known Black Hawks - are mostly used for combat search-and-rescuemissions, mainly to adidas yeezy recover downed air crew members or other personnel duringwar and other hostile situations. They typic adidas originals ally practice flying low and fast,often at altitudes of hundreds, rather than thousands, of feet. The choppers are highly regarded andhave no known safety issues, said Peter Felstead, the editor of IHS Jane sDefence Weekly. It s very difficult to know ifthere is a mechanical problem or something other than that, he said,adding the flooded marshes will complicate the recovery of Ejab Terror alert raised in Norway after 2 killed, 10 wounded in shooting at nightclub in Oslo
Israeli troops searched for explosives in the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, as a European envoy cited mid-July as a tentative date for a Middle East peace conference.The army maintained its grip on Nablus and the adjacent Balata refugee camp -- both bastions of Palestinian militants -- on the third day of a sweep the Israeli government said was aimed at thwarting more suicide bombings in its cities.Troops blasted open doors to search for explosives.Israel waged a six-week military offen stanley cup sive against militant bombers across the West Bank that ended on May 10 with claims of success, but attacks resumed two weeks later and troops have raided Palestinian towns repeatedly since. The raids, coupled with tightened closures and ad hoc curfews, have all but wiped out boundaries between territory under Palestinian self-rule and that occupied by Israel, negotiated under interim peace deals during the 1990s. The Palestinian Authority says such conditions will make it difficult to carry out democratic reforms and rein in security organs linked to violence -- conditions set by Israel for reviving talks on a final peace envisaging a Palestinian state. Israel says it has little choice for now. Our intelligence indicates that army ope stanley cup rations in the West Bank since the end of the offensive have prevented 40 Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis, a security source said. There have been five suicide attacks since May 10.In a separate development, Palestinians charged th

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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Fourteen elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe in three separate incidents, two years after poachers killed more than 200 elephants by poisoning, Zimbabwe s National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority said Tuesday.Three elephants were killed in Matusadona National Park in the Kariba area in northern Zimbabwe and 11 more pachyderms were found dead in two different spots in Hwange National Park in western Zimbabwe over the past two weeks.In all cases the elephants were killed by cyanide, according to kidney and liver samples from the dead elephants tested by the Biological Sciences Department, said parks s adidas samba donna pokeswoman Caroline Washaya Moyo. Blood ivory: Elephant poaching in Kenya 25 photos In Kariba, poac nike dunks panda hers laced oranges with cyanide, she said, while in Hwange the poison was put on salt licks.The ivory tusks had been cut off six elephants at one location in Hwange park but the other fiv adidas campus e elephants still had their tusks, suggesting the poachers were disrupted. The motive for the killings in Matusadona was not known.There have been no arrests so far over the latest incidents, said Clement Munoriarwa, police commander for Mashonaland West province. We have had a number of poaching activities in the province Hqwb Copenhagen Carbon Footprint: 40,500 Tons
The United States and governments around the world have used the post-Sept. 11 war on terrorism to erode human rights and st stanley tumbler ifle political dissent, Amnesty International said Tuesday.In its annual state-of-the-world report, the organization said emergency anti-terrorist legislation and changes to trial and detention procedures had contributed to an atmosphere of repression and undermined universal stanley mug pr stanley quencher inciples of human rights. What happened on Sept. 11 was a crime against humanity, a gross human rights violation of thousands of people, said Amnesty s secretary-general, Irene Khan.However, she said, in the days, weeks and months that followed, governments around the world eroded human rights in the name of security and anti-terrorism. Among the worrying developments, Amnesty said, were a U.S. proposal to try some terrorist suspects before military tribunals and new laws in several nations mdash; including the United States, Britain and Canada mdash; making it easier to deport or detain foreign suspects. The London-based rights group said countries from India and Pakistan to Malaysia and Singapore had introduced repressive security legislation in the aftermath of Sept. 11. Human rights were traded away in almost all parts of the world, Khan said. Democratic states jumped on the bandwagon almost as rapidly as authoritarian regimes. The report, which records human rights abuses in 152 countries during the year 2001, said Sept. 11 had spawned an atmosphere in which coun

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DANANG, Vietnam - When Richard Parker left Vietnam in 1970, he planned to leave his memories of napalm attacks firmly in the past. Instead, as time marched on, they haunted him. We were the bad guys, Parker, now 65, said of the American war effort in Vietnam. I had some ghosts I had to face down. In 2011, Parker flew from Illinois to Danang, a central Vietnamese city where he had worked for 22 months as a builder in the Navy. First he visited nearby places he still remembered, including a mountain pass where he had seen shooting.On the same trip, a Vietnamese man who once worked for the Marines introduced Parker to some American veterans who lived in Danang full time. Parker enjoyed meeting them nike dunk high and seeing the country in a new light - so much so salomon xt that he moved to Danang a few months later. Four decades later, Vietnam vets reunite nike air max 02:06 The presence of American war veterans in today s Vietnam - and the warm welcome they usually receive - is yet another sign of how much the U.S.-Vietnamese relationship has evolved since the countries normalized relations in 1995. They want to see a different Vietnam, said Nguyen Thi Nga, 34, who often hosts American veterans and other expatriates at her seaside restaurant in Danang. The bamboo-frame structure overlooks Non Nuoc Beach and the adjacent South Lkjs ISIS extremists emailed family before executing James Foley
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pledged Wednesday to push ahead with his country s nuclear program, and as a U.N. deadline expired said his people would not bow to Western intimidation.Ahmadinejad added that it was worth stopping all other development projects in Iran to stanley flask attain nuclear power, which he said would push his country ahead by 50 years. The enemy is making a big mistake if it thinks it can thwart the wi stanley cup ll of the Iranian nation to achieve the peaceful use of nuclear technology, he was quoted as saying on the official state television web site.The U.N. has set a Wednesday deadline for Iran to suspend enrichment, a crucial process that can produce either fuel for a nuclear reactor or material for a warhead.The West has insisted Iran must suspend enrichment before it will enter any negotiations over its nuclear program mdash; a condition Tehran has staunchly rejected as it pushes ahead with developing its enrichment facilities. After allowing the Security Council deadline to pass and on the eve of the International Atomic Energy Agency report of Iran s continued uranium enrichment, Iran is sounding a more defiant tone than ever, says CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst Pamela Falk, stanley water bottle leaving the Bush administration with the choice of trying to pressure other resistant members of the U.N. to pass tougher sanctions, to implicitly threaten military force, or to negotiate under Iran s terms, none of which are very good options. Asked about Iran Tuesday, White

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MONTABAUR, Germany -- New details emerged Saturday about Andreas Lubitz, the troubled co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525.Investigators said Lubitz deliberately crashed the Barcelona-to-Duesseldorf flight into the French Alps on Tuesday, killing himself and the other 149 people on board. Figuring out why Lubitz acted as he did is proving complex.German media Saturday quoted unnamed sources as saying Lubitz was suffering from an eye problem that could have affected his job. New questions raised about Germanwings co-pilot s motives 02:36 The reports claimed police found medications for psychological illnesses at Lubitz s two residences and that he was being treated by air max 1 both psychologists and neurologists.Flight crews are supposed to report illnesses that could affect their performance, but it s voluntary. If the person in quest adidas campus 80s ion wants to conceal things, lying and suicidal thoughts can t be prevented by any tests, Lufthansa First Officer Markus Wahl, sp adidas campus beige okesman for the German Pilots Association, said through a translator. Germany s leading tabloid quoted a woman it described as a former girlfriend who said Lubitz had told her that one day everyone will know my name. On the slopes of the mountain below the crash site, the victims family members made their way to a memorial plaque Saturday. T Iisq U.S. citizen jailed in N. Korea returned to work camp
BELFAST, Northern Ireland - A passenger plane made a safe emergency landing Tuesday after developing technical problems, Belfast International Airport said.The Thomas Cook Airbus A320, bound from Belfast to Tenerife, landed at around 6:30 a.m. EDT, the airport said.A spokeswoman from Thomas Cook, one of Bri stanley cup price tain s biggest tour operators, said that 175 people were on board the plane. She spoke on condition of anonymity, citing company policy.A minor technical difficulty with the landing gear caused stanley flasche the pilot to turn back to the airport shortly after it took off, she said.The plane circled over Northern Ireland to use up fuel before landing, as fire engines and ambulances waited on the runway. The aircraft will be inspected by fire offi stanley mugs cials before passengers are allowed to disembark, the airport said.All the passengers will return to the same plane at 3 p.m. and continue their journey to Tenerife, Thomas Cook said. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-99d199d4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-99d199d4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-99d199d4-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;

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Washington mdash; The White House said Wednesday it has new intelligence that shows Russia and North Korea are actively advancing high-level talks for more weapons to bolster President Vladimir Putin s i salomon xt 6 nvasion of Ukraine.National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said adidas yeezyslide Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have exchanged letters pledging to increase their cooperation. The letter followed a recent visit from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to the isolated regime to try to convince Pyongyang to sell artillery ammunition to Russia, he said.After Shoigu s visit, another group of Russian officials traveled to Pyongyang for follow-up discussions on arms deals, Kirby said. Following these negotiations, high-level discussions may continue in coming months, Kirby said, declining to give details about how the U.S. obtained the intelligence.Under the potent adidas samba og ial agreements, North Korea would give Russia significant quantities and multiple types of weapons to use in Ukraine, he said. Any arms deal between the DPRK and Russia would directly violate a number of U.N. Security Council resolutions, Kirby said, using the acronym for the Democratic People s Republic of Korea. We re continuing to monitor this situation closely. And we urge the DPRK to cease its arms negotiations with Russia and abide by the public commitments that Pyongyang has made to not provide or sell arms to Russia. U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made similar comments on Wednesday at Vlyo Dozier Stable Although Critical
Iran moveClock ; //function callIntroductionPeopleEconomyResources CBS K stanley romania nown as Persia until 1935, Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979 after the ruling monarchy was overthrown and Shah Mohammad Reza PAHLAVI was forced into exile. Conservative clerical forces established a theocratic system of go stanley kubek vernment with ultimate political authority vested in a learned religious scholar referred to commonly as the Supreme Leader who, according to the constitution, is accountable only to the Assembly of Experts.US-Iranian relations have been strained since a group of Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979 and held it until 20 January 1981. During 1980-88, Iran fought a bloody, indecisive war with Iraq that eventually expanded into the Persian Gulf and led to clashes between US Navy and Iranian military forces between 1987 and 1988. Iran has been designated a state sponsor of terrorism for its activities in Lebanon and elsewhere in the world and remains subject to US, UN, and EU economic sanctions and export controls because of its cont stanley flask inued involvement in terrorism and its nuclear weapons ambitions. Following the election of reformer Hojjat ol-Eslam Mohammad KHATAMI as president in 1997 and similarly a reformer Majles parliament in 2000, a campaign to foster political reform in response to popular dissatisfaction was initiated. The movement floundered as conservative politicians, through the control of unelected institutions, prevented