New York (CNN) — The solutions to America’s long-term budget deficits are surprisingly simple, but they’re politically unthinkable in today’s Washington, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.

America’s failure to deal with its growing budget deficit is hurting its image internationally, according to Zakaria. President Obama proposed a $3.8 trillion budget Monday, projecting a deficit of more than $1.5 trillion this year and nearly $1.3 trillion for the 2011 budget year.

Zakaria, author and host of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria: GPS,” spoke to CNN Wednesday.

CNN: So the president released his budget this week, projecting deficits almost as far as the eye can see. What do you make of it?

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Fareed Zakaria: The real problem is not the current deficits that the president has projected. These deficits are to a large extent inescapable because of the financial emergency we find ourselves in, the rescue of the financial system, the stimulus package to jump-start the American economy. But it’s worth understanding why this gets us to 10 percent of GDP, the worst deficit since World War II.

And it is because, as the president points out, the budget was broken in the first place. It was broken by three decisions made during the Bush administration.

The first was to have massive tax cuts, which was a decision made in the wake of the Clinton surpluses.

The second decision was to have a massive new entitlement program — prescription drugs for the elderly — which took the fastest growing part of the American population and joined it to the fastest-rising costs in American health care, which is prescription drugs. It was therefore a marriage made in budgetary hell.

And the third, of course, was to have two wars that were going to be funded without any tax increases, the first time in modern American history that that decision was made. … A partial exception was Vietnam, which produced an economic catastrophe in the 1970s.

And then you add to it the fact that we were in a financial and economic crisis and needed to spend money to get out of it, and you have the current budget problem.

CNN: Right now the United States has a triple-A credit rating and the dollar is the reserve currency for the world. Do you think America’s financial stability is threatened in the short term?

Zakaria: Not in the short term. These are understandable choices America has to make. The entire industrialized world is facing very similar budget deficits. We have probably five years to try to bring our budget into some kind of manageable situation. And if we can’t do it within five years, it suggests two things. One is that the trends at that point become so deep that fixing them at that point becomes very difficult. And the second thing is that it becomes a signal to the world that we really cannot get control of our budget. And at that point, I do think that America’s reputation, its credibility, its ability to borrow vast amounts of money all will come into jeopardy.

CNN: Do you think that President Obama should have taken more dramatic steps to curtail spending?

Zakaria: If he were to cut spending at this point, the economy would quite likely go into a second recession, a double-dip, and then frankly everything collapses. If you don’t have growth, you have no prospect of getting out of this budgetary situation. … But he must in a year begin really to address the serious issues that make up the budget crisis that we have.

The most significant one is health care costs. … Obama’s health care plan, while it has some cost control measures, is mostly about expansion and adding to the costs. … There has to be a much, much more serious focus on costs.

The second is a number of sacred cows in the federal budget which are very large but which frankly make no sense. We have a $250 billion a year hole in the federal budget because employers are given a tax deduction for health care plans. This is actually bad for health care, because it is one of the factors that contributes to these out of control costs, because it’s an invitation to have inflation in the system.

CNN: Are there other large “sacred” budget items?

Zakaria: Another is the deduction of mortgage interest, which is taken in America as some kind of great measure that has enabled Americans to own homes, whereas we have the same rate of home ownership as Britain and Canada, neither of which have interest deductions for their home mortgages.

What it is really is a subsidy for homeowners to take on debt. … We take on more debt than people in other countries and we can see that has been part of the distortion of the market that has produced the financial crisis that we’ve just gone through.

That deduction is a hundred billion dollars. When you hear people talking about freezing this or that federal program, there you’re talking about hundreds of millions of dollars, occasionally a billion dollars. But the real big money is in all these middle class entitlements that are regarded as sacred cows.

And the third part is taxes. You’re not going to bring the budget into balance unless you talk about tax increases. The only real question is what kind of tax increases. If we were to have a modest value added tax, the kind we have in Europe, it would probably raise $150-$250 billion a year. It would discourage excessive consumption, it would encourage savings. …

CNN: So if the solutions are so simple, why aren’t they happening?

Zakaria: If you take those three things — health care, middle class entitlements and taxes — we have effectively solved America’s budget crisis. So the good news here is that we have a $14 trillion economy.

There’s more than enough money to have a very substantial federal budget, moderate taxes (we are still at the low end of the industrialized world in terms of taxes as a percentage of GDP). So it really is worth thinking about how strange it is, that a fairly sensible set of discreet measures could put us back into a situation where we would be the envy of the world in terms of our fiscal condition.

The steps I outlined are economically simple and sensible and yet they’re political dynamite.

If we were to raise the retirement age on Social Security, modestly and on a sliding scale so that it was phased in. If we were to trim the benefits very slightly … the program would be solvent for the next 75 years. And yet think about it. That simple commonsensical fix is politically absolutely impossible in Washington today.

CNN: Why do you think that is?

Zakaria: Because we have a political structure in Washington today, that if one side proposes any solution to these problems, the other side does not ask itself: How can we have a compromise that solves this problem?

Instead they think: How can we demagogue this issue to fundraise, to win votes, to scare people, to polarize the political climate and gain advantage from it? It’s almost that the entire strategy now is how can we take any proposal that anyone makes and turn it into a fundraising opportunity for our extreme wing.

And if you do that, you’re never going to actually solve the problems of the country because every proposal can be demagogued.

CNN: You just came back from Davos. What’s the view of world leaders of this American budget problem?

Zakaria: There is great unease not just about the numbers … the real unease is about the sense that Washington is no longer working, that you cannot count on the United States to be able to make hard decisions, to sort its own internal affairs out. One European CEO said to me, what worries us more than anything else is that problems you’re facing now are the same problems you were facing 10 or 15 years ago.

They don’t seem to go away. In other words, we keep kicking the can down the road.

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U.S. officials said they reopened the embassy today because a Yemeni counterterrorism operation on Monday “addressed a specific area of concern.”

Yemeni officials reportedly killed two and injured two suspected Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives Monday. The Interior Ministry today said it had arrested five other “terror elements” in and around the capital and Hudaydah province.

The ministry said it had beefed up security measures around foreign embassies and residential districts favored by the international community in Sana, according to Yemen’s official Saba news agency. An unnamed official told Saba that security forces had imposed a “cordon” and round-the-clock surveillance around Al Qaeda militants.

“Security protections for embassies are at a high standard of counteraction performance in case of any repulsive attempt,” an official told Saba today.

“The Ministry of Interior emphasizes that all embassies, diplomatic missions and foreign companies are fully secured and there is nothing to be worried about,” the official reportedly said. “Security is maintained and there is no fear for the life of any foreigner or any foreign embassy in the country.”

Still, U.S. officials urged Americans living in Yemen not to take any chances.

“The threat of terrorist attacks against American interests remains high and the Embassy continues to urge its citizens in Yemen to be vigilant and take prudent security measures,” a statement said.

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Rep. Henry E. Brown Jr. (S.C.) on Monday became the 14th Republican to announce that he will not run for reelection this year. Ten Democrats have said the same, including an attention-grabbing four in the past two months from swing and Republican-leaning districts.

A broad look at those seats suggests more parity, in terms of the two parties’ opportunities and vulnerabilities, than conventional wisdom would suggest.

Each side has three seats won by the other party’s presidential candidate in 2008. For Democrats, they are Louisiana’s 3rd District and Tennessee’s 6th and 8th districts; for Republicans, they are Delaware’s at-large seat, Illinois’s 10th District and Pennsylvania’s 6th District.

Both parties face the prospect of tough campaigns in most of those open-seat districts. Nine of the Republican seats are in districts that GOP presidential candidate John McCain either lost or won with less than 60 percent of the vote in 2008. Democrats are defending seven seats that Barack Obama either lost or won with less than 60 percent.

The relative evenness of those numbers belies the perception in Washington that Democrats are rapidly losing altitude — the switch of Rep. Parker Griffith (Ala.) to the GOP being a touchstone in that argument — and are headed for major losses in November.

Retirements are only one factor in the midterms. Republicans still have several advantages and are nearly certain to score double-digit gains in November.

The largest factor in their favor is the weight of history. The first midterm elections for a new president are traditionally marked by significant House losses for his party.

This month will be critical in determining what direction the open-seat landscape is headed. Will a series of Democratic lawmakers — fresh from conversations with their families and nervous about the political environment — decide to step aside? (Keep an eye on such congressmen as Leonard L. Boswell of Iowa and Vic Snyder of Arkansas for an early indication of which way the wind is blowing.) And would those departures prompt even more lawmakers to consider leaving on their own terms?

If that happens, an election cycle that looked like a traditional midterm round for Democrats, with losses in the 20-seat range, could become one in which control of the House is up for grabs.

Expect Republicans to push hard on wavering Democratic lawmakers over the next month, letting them know what they are in for if they decide to seek reelection. But if the GOP’s retirements continue, that pressure could ease.
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The great scientist set up a laboratory in his attic, where he was studying how a prism breaks light up into many colors. His cat Puss kept nudging the door open and letting the outside light in, ruining his experiments. So Newton cut a hole in the door and attached a flap of dark, heavy fabric at the top. When Puss had kittens, Newton cut a smaller, lower one for the babies. This sounds like an excellent solution for my bathroom door, which my cats insist on pushing open.

While Newton was a famous cat lover, one of the most famous cat haters was Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821). There are a lot of stories about how Napoleon reacted to cats, and historians are not sure how many of them are true. But there are enough of these stories to convince his biographers that Napoleon was definitely ailurophobic. (That’s the fancy word for “afraid of cats.”)

The story I like best took place when Napoleon was staying at the Palace of Schonbrunn in Vienna. One of his aides passed by Napoleon’s bedroom late at night and heard the great general calling for help. The aide rushed into the room and found Napoleon half undressed and very agitated. The emperor had his sword in his hand and was lunging at the tapestry that hung from the wall! It turned out a cat had gotten into his room. When Napoleon started screaming, the cat scurried behind the tapestry.

If you have some interesting cat trivia or history to share, or topics you’d like to see addressed, send me an e-mail.

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The National Security Council (NSC) made the demand at talks chaired by President Hamid Karzai, who has been vocal in condemning international forces he believes are responsible for the incident last Saturday in the eastern flashpoint of Kunar.

“The meeting of the National Security Council demanded that those responsible for the deaths of those innocent youths must be handed over to the Afghan government,” a statement from Karzai’s office said.

Sensitivities about civilian casualties allegedly caused by NATO or US-led operations have driven a wedge between Karzai and his Western military allies who help keep his fragile government in power.

Karzai’s ties with the West have already deteriorated over his controversial re-election after a ballot mired in fraud.

Around 113,000 NATO and US troops are fighting against a Taliban-led insurgency determined to topple Karzai’s government and evict foreign forces, in an increasingly lethal war — for civilians as well as combatants.

The row escalated Wednesday when Afghan government investigators accused Western forces of killing 10 civilians, eight of them teenagers, in a raid in Kunar province, which borders Pakistan.

NATO forces have disputed the results of the Afghan probe, saying the foreigners involved were non-military Americans on a sanctioned operation who fired in self-defence after being shot at by villagers.

But Afghanistan’s powerful NSC accepted the findings of the investigation, saying foreigners entered a house and shot the 10 people, who were unarmed and posed no threat.

“International forces entered the area… and killed 10 youths, eight of them school students inside two rooms in a house, without encountering any armed resistance,” the statement said.

The NSC condemned the “killing and emphasized the need for more coordination in military operations in a bid to avoid civilian deaths”.

Around 1,500 people took to the streets Thursday for the latest in a string of protests over the alleged killings, using sticks to beat an effigy of US President Barack Obama and shouting “death to Obama”, witnesses said.

In Asadabad, capital of Kunar, hundreds of students led the march chanting “death to America,” “death to Britain and those who killed the students”, witnesses said.

“We want the perpetrators brought to justice. The coalition forces must stop unilateral operations,” said organiser Abdul Wahab.

Afghan authorities said they were also investigating reports of further civilian deaths in a NATO air strike.

The probe was launched into reports that nine civilians were killed in a NATO air strike near the town of Lashkar Gah in the troubled southern province of Helmand on Wednesday.

Daud Ahmadi, a spokesman for Helmand governor Gulab Mangal, said civilians had been killed in the Lashkar Gah bombing, but he had no figures or other details.

“We know civilians have been killed but we don’t know how many. The governor has sent a delegation to the area to provide some cash support to the victims’ families and investigate the incident,” Ahmadi said.

Mohammad Alam, who said he had taken a wounded man to the city’s hospital, said villagers had gathered to discuss water distribution when the air strike took place late Wednesday.

“All of a sudden the area was bombed, eight people were killed on the spot, another was wounded whom I brought to hospital, he died later,” he said.

The war of words over civilian casualties came as the Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a US base that killed eight US civilians, and after a bomb attack killed five Canadians, including a reporter.

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“Egyptian authorities made an exception and opened the Rafah border on Wednesday and allowed activists from the Gaza Freedom March to pass through,” Alhamy Aref, secretary-general of the North Sinai governorate, said.

The activists, several hundred of whom were from France, had asked Egypt for permission to cross into Gaza but the Interior Ministry said the march was illegal and a threat to national security.

The group has staged protests almost daily since Sunday in different parts of Egypt, surrounded by a heavy police presence. Such demonstrations are rare in Egypt but no violence broke out and no arrests were made, witnesses and security officials said.

Israel controls the air space, sea access and most of the entry points into the coastal enclave of Gaza.

Egypt controls the Rafah border, imposing restrictions on the movement of Palestinians and some foreigners. It is also building a controversial steel wall along its Gaza border to prevent smuggling.

Talks between Israel and the Palestinians have been suspended since the December start of the Gaza war, in which 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed.

The U.S. President Barack Obama’s Middle East envoy George Mitchell is expected to visit the region in January for a fresh push to resume the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. But months of Mitchell’s shuttling between the sides yielded no concrete signs of progress in 2009.

Egypt has been hosting talks with different Palestinian political groups to end internal disputes, mainly between the Palestinian Authority, which controls the West Bank and the Islamist group Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip.

Egypt and Germany have also been mediating a possible prisoner exchange by Hamas and Israel.

Egypt has agreed to allow a food and supplies convoy led by independent British Member of Parliament George Galloway to pass into Gaza, but only if it lands by sea at Arish and passes through Rafah.

The convoy was docked in the Jordanian port of Aqaba all last week seeking approval from Egypt to enter via Nuweiba on the Red Sea.

(Reporting by Yusri Mohamed; Writing by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)

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Anbar Province, the embattled region west of Baghdad, has been a bellwether for Iraq’s fortunes. In 2004, the killing of four American contractors in Falluja signaled the hardening of the insurgency. In 2006, when tribal leaders in Anbar turned against the insurgency in the Sunni Awakening Council, their efforts brought the first turn toward peace in the country.

On Wednesday morning, insurgents in Ramadi, the provincial capital, brought what may be another reversal in the region’s fortunes. At 9:30 a.m., a car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint near the governor’s office. When Mr. Fahadawi left the office to check on the explosion, a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest attacked, wounding the governor.

The two bombs killed at least 10 people and wounded 30, according to a police commander, Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Dulaimi. Other reports said more than 20 people were killed and 100 wounded.

American forces took the governor to an American military base for treatment.

“They want to bring Anbar back to the past,” said Sheikh Hameed al-Hies, the head of the Anbar Salvation Council. He said violence in the region was increasing in anticipation of national elections scheduled for March. “The terrorists do not want Anbar people to participate in the elections,” he said.

He blamed the violence among the predominantly Sunni province’s tribes, which often play out among the police and military forces. “The main problem that we are suffering from here in Anbar is the problem of the tribal gathering, which is more dangerous than the sectarian gathering,” he said.

Wednesday’s attack follows a recent rise in deadly insurgent activity that Iraqi and American officials have called an attempt to re-establish the insurgency in a region from which it had been largely routed. In recent months, insurgents in Anbar have killed several important tribal leaders and staged regular attacks on police checkpoints.

A bomb outside a national reconciliation meeting in Ramadi killed 26 people and wounded 65; a suicide bomber killed 16 people at a restaurant popular among police in Falluja, and another killed six people at a police officer’s funeral in Haditha.

Local officials attributed Wednesday’s attack to al Qaeda, which previously had its stronghold in the region. But they also criticized local police for letting the region’s security to diminish. Two years ago, Anbar was a model for what Iraq could become; now it is becoming a warning.

The attacks show that the security forces are ill-equipped to fight a renewed insurgency, said Sheikh Ahmed Abu Resha, the head of the Awakening Council and a candidate for Parliament representing the Iraq Unity Alliance coalition. “Our security forces are fragile and need logistic support,” he said.

Shortly after the attack on Wednesday, the Iraqi Islamic Party, the country’s largest Sunni party, issued a statement declaring the violence an attempt “to bring back chaos again to Anbar territory,” which the party said hindered reconstruction and spread financial and administrative corruption.

Elsewhere in Iraq on Wednesday, violence continued to mar observances of Ashura which commemorates the death of the revered Shiite martyr Imam Hussein. During the two-week observance, hundreds of thousands of black-clad Shiites took to the streets or marched to the shrine city of Karbala. On Wednesday, as mourners in Diyala Province, north of Baghdad, commemorated the imam’s burial, a bomb hidden in a heap of trash killed seven people and wounded 28 others.

It was not immediately clear if Mr. Fahadawi had been a specific target of the bombers, although a new wave of violence has recently been unleashed against the Awakening Council, the confederation of Sunni tribes that sided with the United States to suppress the Islamist insurgency and drive Qaeda operatives and other foreign fighters from the province.

Mr. Fahadawi , a chemical engineer who was born in Ramadi and graduated from Baghdad University, had worked in a military commission under the Baathist government of Saddam Hussein.

He left Iraq in 2006 as fighting raged between coalition forces and the insurgents. He retreated to the United Arab Emirates, then returned to Iraq when the insurgency had been suppressed and Sunni political leaders invited him to participate in the provincial government.

He was chosen to be governor by the head of the Awakening Council, Ahmed Abu Risha, after the council won provincial elections early this year.

John Leland reported from Baghdad, and Mark McDonald from Hong Kong. Anwar J. Ali and Mohammed Hussein contributed reporting from Baghdad, and Iraqi employees of the New York Times from Ramadi and Diyala Province.

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“The consultations will continue and the negotiations will continue. We cannot say that the deal has reached a dead end. And we cannot say that (the talks were) concluded by a deal,” Ayman Taha told Reuters in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

Intensified consultations on both sides raised speculation last week that a deal to free Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held captive in the Gaza Strip for more than three years, in return for some 1,000 Palestinian prisoners was imminent.

A Hamas source close to the talks said the German mediator who has been shuttling between the sides will begin a new round of negotiations next week.

Palestinian officials have said Israel and Hamas have not agreed on a final list of prisoners to be released, including the fate of about 20 Palestinians who were convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis, and which prisoners will be deported.

Shalit, now 23, was seized by militants who tunnelled into Israel from the Gaza Strip in a raid in 2006.

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Putin’s comment, made at a press briefing in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, echoed a similar call from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last week.

“If we want to retain the balance, we have to establish an exchange of information: Let the U.S. partners provide us information on [their] missile defense while we will give them information on [our] offensive weapons,” Putin said.

Putin also spoke positively about ongoing negotiations between the two countries on a new nuclear arms control agreement that would replace the U.S.-Russian START treaty, which expired December 5.

The United States and Russia plan to complete it and sign it at the beginning of 2010, Russian and American leaders have said. As envisioned, the new treaty would significantly reduce nuclear arms on both sides.

“I think that we need certain rules on weapons limitation which could be equally understood, easily verifiable and transparent,” Putin said. “The existence of those rules is better than their absence.”

He repeated that offensive and defensive arms should be linked, because they are closely related.

“It was the balance of forces — including missile defense, air defense and offensive weapons systems — that preserved peace even during the Cold War,” Putin said.

“Since we are not developing [our own] missile defense, there is a threat that our [U.S.] partners would feel totally secure having created an umbrella against our offensive systems,” he added. “Then our partners might do whatever they want; the aggressiveness in real politics and economics would increase because of the broken balance.”

Last week, in Medvedev’s year-end live interview with three Russian TV channels, he reiterated that Russia will continue to develop strategic offensive missiles after the signing of the new START treaty.

“This is normal,” Medvedev said. “The whole world is doing this. Of course, this work needs to take place within the framework of conventions and agreements, including our future agreements with the Americans. But this process will continue and our nuclear shield will always be effective and sufficient for protecting our national interest.”

Medvedev added, “That doesn’t mean that we cannot talk about a nuclear-free world. It’s a beautiful and right goal. But we should approach it gradually. … Not only Russians and Americans, but also other countries who are looking forward to joining the ‘nuclear club,’ thus causing many problems, should take part in it.

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Speaking to reporters, the spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Ramin Mehmanparast, said countries including the United States and Britain had miscalculated in criticizing the government’s response to the demonstrations, which left at least eight people dead.

“Some Western countries are supporting this sort of activities. This is intervention in our internal affairs. We strongly condemn it,” he said, according to The Associated Press. “In this regard, the British ambassador will be summoned today.”

The British government said its ambassador to Iran, Simon Gass, would respond “robustly” to any criticism and would reiterate calls for Iran to respect the rights of its citizens.

The conservative speaker of Iran’s Parliament, Ali Larijani, rebuked American and British officials for their “disgraceful comments” about the demonstrations, according to the state-run PressTV. The criticisms of Iran’s action were “disgustingly vivid that they clarify where this movement stands when it comes to destroying religious and revolutionary values,” he said.

Opposition Web sites quoted by news agencies said Tuesday that authorities had detained the sister of Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday night, adding to the toll of arrests following the Sunday’s protests.

Iranian authorities arrested at least a dozen opposition figures on Monday, including former Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, the human rights activist Emad Baghi and three top aides to the former presidential candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi, Iranian news sites reported.

All told, more than 1,500 people have been arrested nationwide since Sunday, including 1,110 in Tehran and 400 in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, the pro-opposition Jaras Web site reported.

In Hawaii, where he is on vacation, Mr. Obama condemned the violence against protesters and called for the release of those “unjustly detained.”

“For months, the Iranian people have sought nothing more than to exercise their universal rights,” Mr. Obama told reporters. “Each time they have done so, they have been met with the iron fist of brutality, even on solemn occasions and holy days.”

He added that the protests in Iran had nothing to do with the United States or other foreign countries. “It’s about the Iranian people, and their aspirations for justice, and a better life for themselves,” he said. “And the decision of Iran’s leaders to govern through fear and tyranny will not succeed in making those aspirations go away.”

The streets of Tehran were largely quiet on Monday and early Tuesday, as citizens absorbed the shock of Sunday’s violence. Thirteen people were reported to have been killed and many more wounded in street battles in cities across the country between security forces and protesters, who fought back more fiercely than ever before. The government said Monday that eight people had been killed in Tehran, and opposition Web sites catalogued five deaths in other cities.

The government said that it was holding the bodies of five protesters, including a nephew of Mr. Moussavi, the state-run IRNA news agency reported, in what appeared to be an attempt to prevent funerals that could turn into more demonstrations. The bodies were being held pending autopsies.

The authorities’ use of deadly force on the Ashura holiday drew a fierce rebuke on Monday from the opposition cleric and reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who noted that even the shah had honored the holiday’s ban on violence.

“What has happened to this religious system that it orders the killing of innocent people during the holy day of Ashura?” Mr. Karroubi said in a statement, according to the Jaras Web site.

Mr. Karroubi, a fierce critic of the government, was attacked Sunday by plainclothes security officers, and other attackers later smashed the front windshield of his car, the Sahamnews Web site reported.

Government supporters blamed opposition members for the violence and called for their prosecution. The Revolutionary Guards issued a statement calling violence by the protesters a “horrible insult to Ashura” and called for “firm punishment of those behind this obvious insult,” the semiofficial Fars news agency reported.

Large groups of police officers stood guard in several central Tehran squares on Monday morning, witnesses said. At least three subway stations were closed, apparently to prevent any further gatherings.

Still, there were reports of continuing scattered protests on Monday in Tehran’s Haft-e-Tir square and other areas, Jaras reported.

The police fired tear gas to disperse a group of mourners who gathered outside the Tehran hospital where the body of Mr. Moussavi’s nephew, Ali Moussavi, had been held, the Nowrooz Web site reported. A prominent opposition figure with ties to the Moussavi family said Ali Moussavi had been killed by assassins.

Family members said Mr. Moussavi’s body disappeared from the hospital overnight, and on Monday IRNA reported that his body and four others were being held while investigations were carried out.

A 27-year-old journalist who was reporting on the street clashes on Sunday was reported missing. The reporter, Redha al-Basha, who was working for Dubai TV, has not been heard from, according to a statement issued by Dubai TV. Mr. Basha was last seen surrounded by security forces in Tehran, witnesses said.

The group Human Rights Activists in Iran said that the 1,100 people arrested in Tehran were being held in Evin Prison, the Gooya Web site reported.

Among those arrested in Isfahan was the son of a senior cleric, Ayatollah Jalaleddin Taheri. Ayatollah Taheri is the former Isfahan representative of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his son Muhammad is married to the granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the father of Iran’s 1979 revolution.

Ayatollah Taheri tried last week to lead a memorial service for the dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died Dec. 20. The arrest of his son was viewed as an effort by the authorities to pressure the ayatollah.

Nazila Fathi contributed reporting from Toronto, and Peter Baker from Honolulu.

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