WP: Former President Carter agrees to meet former Iranian president Khatami who apparently has been granted a visa to come to the US next week. Reading the State Department spokesman's rather affirmative statement on granting Khatami a visa yesterday, despite pronounced opposition from some Iranian opposition activists, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA), Sen. Santorum, National Review, and others, was struck that this visit is not something that surprised the administration, or one that was not being permitted without a lot of consideration. (Updated with links).

(Meantime, some Iranians based in the U.S. are planning to try to sue in US courts Khatami for human rights abuses committed during his tenure if Khatami comes, a la Pinochet in England. Among those planning to join the law suit against Khatami, Nasrin Mohammadi, the sister of Akbar Mohammadi, a student dissident who died on a hunger strike at Evin prison earlier this month, who was originally arrested when Khatami was president.)

Posted by Laura at August 29, 2006 10:25 PM