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Opinion
Changing mindsets
Opening closed societies to democracy
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
August 5, 1999
The Iranian
A dispatch from Jordan informed us that King Abdullah II, disguised
in worn-out clothes and posing as a taxi driver, roamed the streets of
his capital in order to hear the complaints of his countrymen. This reminds
one of Harun-al-Rashid in the One Thousand and One Nights. Indeed the celebrated
8th century caliph used to mingle incognito with the crowds.
We Iranians, too, have heard childhood tales about Shah Abbass roving
the streets of Isfahan by night. So did Nasseredin Shah Qajar. Even the
last Pahlavi king had set up a special agency for this purpose. As for
today's Iran, it would be rather difficult for the clerics to conceal their
identity, unless they shaved their beards ... GO
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Iran Robocup champions
By Paul de Bendern
STOCKHOLM, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The world may have to wait another 50 years
before people compete against human-sized robots on the soccer pitch, but
on Wednesday fans got a taste of robots playing against each other.
At the third annual Robot World Cup Soccer tournament held in Stockholm,
Iranian robots beat Italian ones 3-1 in a medium-size league which has
five robots about the size of a microwave oven on each team ... FULL TEXT
You may email your congratulatory note to the team leader, Dr. Mansour
Jamzad: jamzad@sina.sharif.ac.ir
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Happy B Day
Consitutional Revolution of 1907
Taraneh Amin writes:
If I am not mistaken, today is sAlgard-e nehzat-e mashrutiyat-e Iran
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* Creepy feeling
Mehdi writes: Your current picture
on the cover unknowingly has de-humanized a family portrait by eraising
their eyes, it gives the on-looker a creepy feeling. I thought maybe you
wanted to know, that's all.
* Under his nose, but unaware
F. Rafat writes: To answer Salamr's questions: ... I agree that our people marched
the streets and wanted a change of the regime without realization of what
they might get is going to be worse than what they had...
[But] I blame the Shah because with all the sources of information that
he had available to him (i.e. SAVAK, military intelligence, counter-intelligence,
etc.), he was supposed to be well-informed and educated. But he was unaware
of what was going on under his nose, until it was too late. Or they briefed
him and he did not pay any attention.
What I wonder about is whether Mrs. Pahlavi ever offere any advise to
Mr.Pahlavi the same as she is offering Mr. Khatami? or was she also unaware
of what was going on or, was she aware and didn't take it serious because
they thought they were untouchable?
By the way, since the Shah knew that he has a terminal desease, wasn't
it better for him to remain in the country and die there as a hero? Even
if he was killed, he would have always been remembered as a martyr ...
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TEXT
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