Iran's culture war.

Looks at the cultural changes taking place in Iran as of July 1998. Election of Mohammed Khatami, a moderate clergyman who studied in the West, as President of Iran; Khatami's campaign for moderation and the rule of law; Opposition to Khatami led by the supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei; Use of the basij, a paramilitary corps of volunteers to fight reforms; Freedom of the press and conciliatory gestures to the United States under Khatami's presidency. INSET: `Khatami is an opportunity,' by Lucian Kim.