NEARLY TWO WEEKS AFTER PRESIDENT BUSH LUMPED IRAN INTO AN "AXIS OF EVI...

World | February 10, 2002, Sunday // 00:00

Nearly two weeks after President Bush lumped Iran into an "axis of evil," the Middle Eastern country's reformist president Saturday urged Iranians to turn out in force for an upcoming anti-U.S. demonstration. President Mohammad Khatami said "the recent, unfounded assertions, which are insulting to the Iranian people," precipitated his call for all Iranians to participate in Monday's protest in Tehran. The demonstration falls on the 23rd anniversary of Iran's Islamic revolution, when Shiite Muslim fundamentalists overthrew a U.S.-backed regime led by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

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