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April Fools
 
Iran is a great country
U.S. senators say they made secret visit to Iran
April 1, 1999
The Iranian
Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer (both Democrats from California)
appeared on a local Iranian TV station in Los Angeles yesterday and spoke
about their secret visit to Iran during Noruz. The following is a transcript
of their TV interview: ... GO
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Story
Part III
By Bruce Bahmani
April 1, 1999
The Iranian
Babak had quickly grown another year older when he found one in the
tappehs one day.Nightly you could watch the Tehran skies light up with
red and green tracers flying from one side of the sky to the other. These
shells were about 6 inches long and the tips a good 3 inches beyond. These
tips when fired could easily cut through a crowd of about 30 or 40 bodies
before they stopped. Effective one would think, except for the fact that
when used by an Iranian on an Iranian had a consequence that no military
manual has yet to point out. The revolution had begun ... GO
TO PART TWO
Outlook
Iraq makes a joke out of food rations
BAGHDAD, April 1 (AFP) - The Iraqi government played a cruel hoax on
its people for April Fools' Day on Thursday when an official newspaper
pledged they would get bananas, chocolate and soft drinks in their rations.
"Good news: from today bananas, Pepsi and chocolate to be included
in rations," the official Ath-Thawra weekly proclaimed on its front
page ... FULL TEXT
Thanks to Payman Arabshahi
Air Force One makes emergency landing in Iran
TEHRAN, April 1 (APN) - The plane carrying U.S. President Bill Clinton
was forced to make an emergency landing in Iran tonight, after experiencing
"catastrophic engine failure", according to sources in Washington
and Tehran.
Mr. Clinton was on his way to Bahrain to visit U.S. navy personnel there,
after attending an emergency meeting of NATO leaders in Brussels, dealing
with the Kosovo crisis. Bahrain is the headquarters for the U.S. navy fifth
fleet ... FULL
TEXT
Thanks to Payman Arabshahi
More Letters
* Divided, unorganized
S. Amirghodsi writes: This in
response to the letter, "She
didn't apologize". I have to agree with Manavi. But I was not
really surprised. What did we expect from Senator Boxer? We are one of
the most divided and unorganized well-to-do minority (actually, sadly enough
we don't even have that title officially) in the U.S. I really don't blame
her ... FULL
TEXT
* Rights: Iran human rights meeting,
New York
Iran National Front- New York Section Invites: Join us to celebrate:
the 50th. anniversary of the United Nations Human Rights Declration on
April 24 ... DETAILS
HERE
Book of the Week
Ancient Persia
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world, provides here a comprehensive survey of the Persian Empire under
the Achaemenids, the Parthians and the Sasanians. By focusing on the indigenous
sources - written, archaeological and numismatic evidence from Persia -
he avoids the traditional Western approach which has tended to rely so
heavily on foreign and sometimes prejudiced Greek or Roman sources. Part
of the freshness of this book comes from its presentation of a historical
discussion of pre-Islamic Persia from a Near Eastern perspective.
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UN praise over Iranian human rights
April 1, (BBC) The United Nations human rights investigator for
Iran has said the Iranian government is making progress towards building
a more tolerant society which recognises human rights. But he said Iran
should remain under special scrutiny by the UN Human Rights Commission for
at least another year because the improvements aren't big enough ... FULL
TEXT
U.S. slams China, Cuba & Iran for abuses
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States called on the United Nations
human rights forum Thursday to join it in condemning China and Cuba for
repressing basic political and religious freedoms. Harold Hongju Koh, assistant
Secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, also denounced
violations in countries including Iraq, Iran, Sierra Leone, Sudan and the
former Yugoslavia ... FULL TEXT
Russian FM to visit Iran soon
TEHRAN,
April 1 (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov is to visit Iran in
the "near future" for talks on strengthening ties, the official
IRNA news agency reported Thursday. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy
Mamedov announced the visit during talks in Moscow on Wednesday with his
Iranian counterpart Morteza Sarmadi ... FULL TEXT
Russian FM to visit Iran soon
TEHRAN,
April 1 (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov is to visit Iran in
the "near future" for talks on strengthening ties, the official
IRNA news agency reported Thursday. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy
Mamedov announced the visit during talks in Moscow on Wednesday with his
Iranian counterpart Morteza Sarmadi ... FULL TEXT
Iran to give foreign firms legal status
for first time in 20 years
TEHRAN,
April 1 (AFP) - Iran has made another step towards opening up its economy
with a bill giving foreign firms legal status for the first time since the
1979 Islamic revolution, the state news agency IRNA reported Thursday. The
bill to allow registration of foreign companies was approved at a cabinet
meeting Wednesday chaired by President Mohammad Khatami, IRNA said ... FULL
TEXT
BP, ARCO part of oil's rich history
LONDON (Reuters) - BP Amoco Plc's merger with Atlantic Richfield
Co. creates a $190 billion oil giant that fuses companies with roots in
both Persia and John D. Rockefeller's old sprawling business empire. BP,
which completed its tie-up with Amoco in December, began life in 1901 when
English adventurer William D'Arcy won a concession from the grand vizier
of Persia ... FULL TEXT
Russia not
to attend World Cup wrestling contest
Spokane,
Washington, April 1, IRNA -- the national russian free-style wrestling team
will not attend the spokane 99 world cup free-style wrestling contest, which
is to be held here from april 2-3. secretary of the u.s. wrestling federation
rich bender said in an interview with irna that the russian team would not
attend the contests despite their desire due to problems at the american
embassy in moscow ... FULL TEXT
On TV
Iran in ABC's "The Century"
ABC television has put a new/documentary series together called 'The
Century', highlighting the key events of the 20th century (from an American
perspective). The 12 hr series will be aired three days a week in six parts.
The 6th episode (to be aired on April 10) covers the Iranian Revolution.
Other episodes cover the following topics: Hitler, The Bomb, Charles Lindbergh,
The moon, W.W.I, Vietnam, Dr. King, FDR, Elvis, Cold war in Hollywood (i.e.,
Joe McCarthy). Each episode, except the sixth, covers two of the above.
The sixth is exclusively about Iran. Please share this with your friends
and family ... MORE
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Debts
Iran's foreign debt
has reached $22 billion and more borrowing has been approved for this year
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