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Abu Saeed
Fiction
The sixth man
Short story
By Parivash Afsari
December 7, 1999
The Iranian
I've never been so popular in my life. Farzad, my kind, handsome, co-worker
has asked me out several times. The American guy in the cubicle behind
me, Warren, just asked me if I was doing anything this weekend. He's good
looking too.
There's also my sweet cousin Afshin. We've been close friends forever.
I had a crush on him when we were growing up in Mashhad. But it seems years
of being alone in Atlanta have made him nostalgic for the good old days.
He calls me three or four times a week and sends God knows how many emails
every day. ... GO
TO FEATURE
Outlook
Daughter of memory
In 'Saffron Sky,' journalist recounts her struggle to be
Iranian in America
By Vanessa E. Jones
Boston Globe Staff,
December 6, 1999
 Etched into Gelareh Asayesh 's memory is the moment she cast
off the conservative culture in which she grew up and gingerly began embracing
a more permissive way of life. It happened at her high school prom, with
an innocuous gesture: The teenage girl placed an arm around her date's
waist.
In ''Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America,'' Asayesh lyrically
describes the impact that simple touch had on a girl who came from a world
where young people barely dated. The memoir describes her family's immigration
from Iran and her struggle to maintain her Iranian identity while steeped
in American culture.
''I can still remember,'' writes Asayesh, 37, ''as if it were seared
into the palm of my hand, the cool silk of his jacket, the forbidden heat
of the body beneath.
''I can still remember the moment when I let go of that girl from Iran.''...
FULL TEXT
Anyway...
By Mother Theresa
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway ... FULL
TEXT
Thanks to Soroush Motahari
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* El Al connection
Kewmars Bozorgmehr
writes: After months of gut-wrenching deliberation, the U.S. is allowing
the Boeing Co. to sell a limited number of 747 engine pod modification
kits to Iran Air [news].
Washington reassures everyone that the waiver on trade restrictions with
Iran involves only seven aircraft and that none of the high-tech tools
required to carry out the alterations will fall into the hands of the Iranians.
Nor will Iran Air's cargo planes benefit from such modifications as, according
to U.S. officials, the airline's non-passenger fleet may have been used
for "nefarious" military purposes.
Ironically, the reason for the modification stems from the 1992 crash
of an Israeli El Al 747 cargo aircraft in Amsterdam that devasted a large
apartment block, killing more than 50 residents and injuring many others
... FULL
TEXT
* Rahebe ye Parandeh
Reza Mousoli
writes: Thanks to satellite communication, you can subscribe to as
many as 50-60 channels in Dubai, which include local stations like Abu
Dhabi, Sharjah, Ajman, MBC (Lebanon), Sudan, Egypt, Pakistan, India, CNN,
MTV, SKY Sports and of course the Iranian channels.
Iranian TV, like any other channel, shows spotrs, news, shows, etc.,
but with a distinctive difference: All the female presenters have hejabs
similar to orthodox nuns -- and often black.
What was wrong with our own Iranian roosaree? No Arab female presenter
wears the maghnaeh! It reminds me of the American TV series "Rahebe
ye Parandeh" (The Flying Nun). I do not know if any of you remember
it.
Anyhow there is nothing wrong with variety particularly in the global
village, but even Sudanese TV stations have more entertainment with women
singers. Yes! A women singer called Samira! Why can't Iran have a woman
singer on TV? Sudan is Moslem country too!
* Literature: Mojabi in northern California
On Saturday, December 11, Sokhan Society in San Francisco's Bay Area
will be hosting Dr. Javad Mojabi. Dr. Mojabi a prominent writer and poet
was invited by PEN AMERICA with four other Iranian writers to New York.
The subject of his discussion will be satire in the poetry of Sanei and
Attar. Time: 6:00 PM. Place: 1700 El Camino Real, Room 301, San Mateo (Borel
Estate Building).
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new paper
TEHRAN,
Dec 7 (AFP) - Staff of the leading Iranian daily Khordad Tuesday thumbed
their nose at a ban issued by a hardline clerical court late last month
by vowing to bring a new reformist title to the newsstands. Some 100 staff
gathered at the paper's offices in Tehran to defy the Special Court for
Clergy's (SCC) order for the closure of the paper ... FULL TEXT
Abdollah Nouri still has 10 days to appeal
jail sentence
TEHRAN,
Dec 7 (AFP) - Leading Iranian reformer Abdollah Nuri still has 10 days to
appeal a five-year jail sentence handed down by a clerical court last month,
the Tehran press reported Tuesday. Any appeal will first have to be examined
for its "validity," newspapers quoted the head of the Special
Court for Clergy (SCC), Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, as telling a meeting
of law students ... FULL TEXT
CIA Wanted Master of Disguise to Create
Fake Shah
Dec 6, 1999, WASHINGTON (APBnews.com) -- The CIA and President
Jimmy Carter turned to him the first week of November 1979 as Carter faced
the crisis that eventually ended his presidency. Sixty-six Americans from
the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, had been taken hostage, and six others
were hiding at the nearby Embassy of Canada ... The CIA wanted Mendez to
carry out a daring plan to diffuse the situation: create a fake shah --
a body-double -- to be spirited out of the U.S. to Egypt, where authorities
would announce he had died from illness ... FULL TEXT
Albright Seeks Saudis' Help on Mideast,
Iran
RIYADH (Reuters) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, kicking
off a four-day Middle East tour, sought the support of Saudi Arabia in easing
the path to Arab-Israeli peace. She met King Fahd and Crown Prince Abdullah
on Monday and thanked them for helping Palestinians prepare for peace but
also expressed concern about Iran's alleged support for opponents of the
peace process, her spokesman James Rubin told reporters at a briefing ...
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Nateq-Nuri accuses liberals of "infiltrating"
into universities
TEHRAN,
Dec 7 (AFP) - Iran's conservative parliament speaker on Tuesday charged
that the country's liberals and nationalists are seeking to infiltrate the
universities, the official IRNA news agency reported. "For the first
time in the history of Iran's universities, we can hear whispers in defence
of the United States," said Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, the leader of Iranian
conservatives ... FULL TEXT
Iran police in drug shootouts, Pakistani
killed
TEHRAN, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Security forces shot dead a Pakistani
citizen and wounded another man in two shootouts with drug traffickers in
southeastern Iran, state television said on Tuesday. The Pakistani was killed
in Sistan-Baluchestan province which borders Pakistan, the report quoted
the state drug agency as saying, adding that the security forces seized
night-vision binoculars, morphine and opium ... FULL TEXT
Lufthansa "discriminates" against
Iranian passengers
06
Dec 1999 (American Iranian Anti-Discrimination Center) -- On Thursday, December
2, 1999, as we were checking in at Lufthansa (German Airline) counter at
San Francisco Airport for our flight to Frankfurt, the Lufthansa officers
imposed us and all other Iranian passengers a discriminatory act of luggage
search. The reason: We were "Iranians"! ... FULL TEXT
Traders ponder Iran's new liberal trade
zone rules
KISH ISLAND, Iran, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Foreign and local businessmen
showed interest but appeared non-committal as Iran this week unveiled unprecedented
liberal regulations designed to woo much-needed investment to its free trade
zones. The new rules, which include allowing foreign banks in the zones
for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution, were presented to
Western, regional and Iranian bankers and executives at a seminar which
ended on Tuesday ... FULL TEXT
"Technical points" block Iran-Emirates
pipeline deal
DUBAI,
Dec 7 (AFP) - Talks on a planned gas pipeline between Iran and the emirate
of Dubai have been prolonged by unresolved "technical points",
an Emirati oil official said Tuesday. Mirza al-Sayegh, vice president of
the Dubai government-owned Emirates National Oil Co. (ENOC), refused to
be drawn on what problems remained, but Western oil sources said price and
volume were still dominating negotiations ... FULL TEXT
"Kish Stories" opens in Paris
Dec
5, 1999, PARIS (AFP) - The artistic brilliance of contemporary Iranian cinema,
demonstrated at innumerable international festivals over the past decade,
is presented in miniature in Paris this week with the release of "Kish
Stories", a three-part portfolio of short films in differing styles
set on an island in the Persian Gulf ... FULL TEXT
Majidi's new film
Decc
7, 1999 (CinemaIran) - An Oscar nominee, the writer & director Majid
Majidi -- after several International Awards for his latest work 'The Color
of Heaven'-- started shooting his new film. Mohammad Davoodi,director of
photography in 'Color of God' works with him again. The new movie -- so
far -- is called 'Rain.' ... FULL TEXT
Wrestlers coming to America
Tehran (Iran daily) - The Iranian free-style wrestling team will
compete in the upcoming world championships hosted by the U.S. ... FULL
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Hashemi-Nasab going to Germany?
Tehran (Iran daily) - Persepolis club officials claim they are
preparing to send off Mehdi Hashemi-Nasab to a European team. But he claims
he knows nothing about it ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Defending the U.S.
For the first time in the history of Iran's universities, we can hear
whispers in defence of the United States.
-- Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, Majlis Speaker
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