No matter how many "combat" assignments a journalist gets, each new one brings its own special dangers, as Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst discovered while reporting for this week's cover story. A veteran correspondent who joined TIME only last month, van Voorst, 46, has covered conflicts in the Dominican Republic, Jordan, Chile and Lebanon, plus the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. But he judges Iran to be his most dangerous territory yet.
"Even in Beirut," van Voorst reports, "where there was a lot of shooting, there was at least a modicum of...
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