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Rumi
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Vertical horizons
"He was no kinder to himself than fate."
Alaleh Kamran
April 7, 1999
The Iranian
The solitude of evening has finally arrived. The staff has left for
the evening. The phones are switched over to the answering service. And,
for a while, my world has paused. The lights in my office are off. I am
staring at the lights that flicker from here to the end of the horizon.
Life seems at times suspended here, on the twenty second floor. As the
CD changer flips back and forth between Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Leonard
Cohen and Kitaro, I come back to reality only to drift away again. I am
tired and my soul hurts. Sometimes, I wish I could take an enormous brush
and paint the world with peace and calm.
You see, the life of a criminal defense attorney is saturated with unhappy
stories and frequently tragic endings. My client was just raped in a California
state prison. We both knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. We just
hoped it would be later. Fate wasn't kind to him. He was no kinder to himself
than fate ... GO
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Rare Googoosh
April 7, 1999
The Iranian
Ali Sabaie handed a tape and said there were a lot of rare Googoosh
tracks on it. Rare indeed! Some are from films Googoosh made in the 1960s
others are memorable because of their English lyrics. And some are from
obscure albums lost to history - but not forever, thanks to Ali Sabaie
... GO
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Outlook
Khatami's Paris trip on hold
IRAN REPORT
Radio Free Europe, Persian Service
April 5, 1999
President Hojatoleslam Mohammad Khatami was scheduled to go to France
in April. On 29 March, however, the Islamic Republic News Agency announced
that the visit "cannot take place" because the French government
failed to comply with the requirement that "Islamic rules be observed."
Apparently, the "dialogue between civilizations" must be conducted
according to Iranian demands ... FULL
TEXT
I forgot the Seer, ay baabaa
Arash Zolfaghari's
Noruz poem:
Be you near or be you far,
in an office or driving a car,
you smell the sweet spring air flow
Samanoo, Senjed, Sabzee polo.
But wait, I forgot the Seer, ay baabaa,
oops, a gold fish in the havaa!
I wish you all a wonderful year:
spend it with those you call dear
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* At a loss
Ramin Tabib writes: Dr.
Tehranian's interpretation of the war against Yoguslavia was quite interesting
since he himself admitted that no one seems to have an answer to the riddle
of why NATO is there ["Why
Kosovo?"].
He is not alone, everyone from my own mother who always blamed everything
on the whim that "there must be something in it for someone,"
to even best socialist magazines such as "The Nation" (www.thenation.com) are pretty much at a
loss as to how to interpret this within the leftist frame of thought. ...
FULL
TEXT
* Milosovic's bloody trail
Reza Shadmehr writes: In looking
at what is happening in Kosovo today, I can't help but remember that President
Molosovic is the same man that spearheaded the humanitarian tragedy in
Bosnia ["Why
Kosovo?"]. In judging his actions, we have the luxury of knowing
that it is not his first time to "ethnically cleanse" an entire
city. In fact, his pattern of actions have traversed a long and bloody
trail ... FULL
TEXT
* Lecture: Ali Bazargan in Sunnyvale
This Friday, April 9, Ali Bazargan, the son of the late Prime Minister
Mehdi Bazargan will speak about THE MESSAGE OF QUR'AN FOR THE NEW AGE.
Mr. Bazargan has written several books including"Freedom in the Qur'an"
... DETAILS
HERE
Book of the Week
Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media
By Yahya R. Kamalipour, Theresa Carilli, George Gerbner (editors)
This book provides rich and detailed accounts of how the media filters
racial/ethnic identity through economic or sensationalized perspectives
in newspapers, films, television, and radio. By exploring media descriptions
of various racial/ethnic groups, Cultural Diversity and the U.S. Media
provides opportunities to discover, debate, and discuss issues surrounding
race/ethnicity and the role of the media in American society.
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Zan newspaper confiscated
April 7, 1999 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Authorities confiscated copies
of an Iranian newspaper Wednesday after the daily defied a ban imposed for
printing a cartoon deemed insulting to Islam, its editor said. Court officials,
citing the cartoon as well as a letter the paper published from Iran's former
empress, Farah Diba, said the moderate Zan newspaper will be banned from
publishing until after the case goes to court. A trial date was not released
... FULL TEXT
Banned Iran paper's head slams court, conservatives
TEHRAN, April 7 (Reuters) - A prominent reformist Iranian newspaper
editor on Wednesday blasted the banning of her daily by an Islamic court
as part of an attack by conservatives on moderate backers of President Mohammad
Khatami. Faezeh Hashemi also said the court had exceeded its jurisdiction
in ordering an indefinite ban on her daily Zan (Woman) for quoting Iran's
former empress and printing a cartoon it deemed anti-Islamic, the Iranian
news agency IRNA reported ... FULL TEXT
Moderates under increasing pressure from
Islamic conservatives
TEHRAN,
April 7 (AFP) - Iran's moderates warned Wednesday that the regime's conservatives
are trying to roll back their stunning electoral successes with a new series
of crackdowns on leading reformers. "The conservatives want to block
moderates supporting the president (Mohammad Khatami) ahead of next year's
legislative elections," said Faezeh Hashemi, a leading moderate MP
whose newspaper Zan was slapped with an indefinite ban on Tuesday ... FULL
TEXT
Iraq to ask Iran to hand over refugees
- paper
BAGHDAD, April 7 (Reuters) - An Iraqi newspaper said on Wednesday
that Iraq would ask Iran to return back thousands of Iraqi refugees who
fled the country after the 1991 Gulf War. ``Iraq will ask Iran to hand over
refugees on the Iranian side after Iraq has handed all Iranian refugees
to Tehran,'' the weekly newspaper al-Ilam (Information) said ... FULL TEXT
UN: Iran and Vietnam win 1999 United Nations
population award
6
April 1999 NEW YORK (UNFPA) -- Dr. Seyed Alireza Marandi, former Minister
of Health and Medical Education of Iran, and the Vietnam National Committee
for Population and Family Planning will share the 1999 United Nations Population
Award. The Award is presented annually by the Committee of the United Nations
Population Award to individuals and institutions which have made outstanding
contributions to increasing the awareness of population problems and to
their solutions ... FULL TEXT
Sweden lodges bribery complaint against
its Teheran embassy
STOCKHOLM,
April 7 (AFP) - Sweden's Foreign Ministry has taken the unusual step of
lodging a formal complaint with police here against its embassy in Teheran
over allegations of bribery, ministry officials confirmed Wednesday ...
FULL TEXT
Conference on petrochemical industry
tehran,
april 7, irna -- international meetings on investment in iran's petrochemical
industry is to be held in tehran from april 19-20 and at imam khomeini port
(khuzestan province) on april 21 to introduce opportunities for investment
in iranian petrochemical industry. deputy oil minister mohammad-reza nematzadeh
told reporters here on wednesday that 160 representatives from economic
and banking institutes and engineering and industrial centers from 30 countries
in europe, asia, the middle east and the u.s. have applied for visas to
attend the session. ... FULL TEXT
Iranian army team in world championships
Tehran,
(Hamshahri) - The Iranian army's soccer team will represent Asia in the
world championships .... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT
Marathon in Tehran
Tehran,
(Iran daily) - The Asian marathon championship run will be held in Tehran
Thursday .... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE 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). 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
INFO
$ Rate
Updated April 7
The
dollar now offered at 790-808 tomans in the U.S. and 815 tomans in Iran
Source: Sehaty Exchange (U.S.) Tel: 602-595-0777
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The end
I wonder how far Jimmy's horizon stretches beyond those barbed wires
and the grey skies. He told me once, if he laid flat on his back and stared
at the sky, he could see the end of the universe. And that is his horizon.
I guess in the world of the convicted, the horizon spreads vertically.
Alaleh Kamran
"Vertical
horizons"
The Iranian
April 7, 1999
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