The younger woman's guilt over past misdeeds (including tacit complicity in the assassination of her husband by her lover) makes her fight for her religious freedom all the more poignant.
Even then, the visit was highly divisive in Iran because of the two countries' troubled history, dating back to Britain's imperial past and its suspected complicity in a 1953 CIA coup that overthrew the elected Iranian leader, Mohammad Mossadeq.
Such work may seem to stretch art's immunity plea — its argument that "we are only reflecting the brutality of the world, and your complicity in it" — past the breaking point, conveniently projecting its own exploitive tendencies onto the viewer.
Only in the greatest of historical novels do we come to feel both the distance of the past and our own likely complicity in the sins of a former age, had we been a part of it.
From a career standpoint, von Braun's death, in 1977, at the age of sixty-five, may have been as lucky as it was premature, since the worst disclosures about his past — his S.S. membership and complicity in slave labor — were soon to achieve general circulation.
It ought to include live testimony by survivors of nerve-gas attacks, corroborative evidence of the ruling regime's complicity and a review of past use of chemical weapons, notably by Iraq in its war with Iran and against its own Kurdish citizens.
Some blamed Nahda for complicity in the assassination.In the past few months Islamist thugs have been taking the law into their own hands.
