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Rumi
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The self-made king
With a little help from the British
The following excerpt and photos are from Cyrus Ghani's Iran
and the Rise of Reza Shah, (1998 I.B. Tauris Publishers):
Little is known about Reza Khan prior to the coup [of 21 February 1921].
He was born in the village of Alasht in the region of Savad Kouh in the
province of Mazandaran. Alasht was an isolated village some 6,000 feet
above sea level and at the turn of the century its population did not exceed
1,000 ... GO
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Burying Khomeini
By Fouad Ajami
The New York Times
Feb 21, 1999
[Ayatollah Khomeini] died unapologetic in 1989 and was buried in the
desert south of Teheran, by the martyrs' cemetery -- with ''the fountain
of blood,'' which once spouted purple-dyed water -- where tens of thousands
of his ''revolutionary children'' who perished in the senseless carnage
of the Iran-Iraq war are laid to rest. Nowadays, travelers who venture
into Khomeini's domain tell us that the revolution has aged, that the things
and the ways of the West clutter the place, that poverty and disillusion
have set in, that the spell has been broken. Deep down, the Ayatollah must
have known that it would come to that. He had never trusted his people
to begin with. The high walls he erected were owed to the knowledge that
Iran had always been easily seduced by people and things beyond ... FULL TEXT
aaaand... ACTION!
ACTOR WANTED: Iranian-American male, mid-twenties, no experience needed!
Must speak Persian, ready and willing to come to Iran in April for two
months to play leading role in a professional feature film to be made entirely
in Iran by an Iranian-American for world wide showing.
** Not political or religous in nature **
Please email Bahrani@neda.net
and "cc" to hooman@bellsouth.net
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* Get off your butt
C. Safdari
writes: Iranians talk of democracy as if it is some sort of state of bliss
or Nirvana which may one day be achieved [1979
survey]... democracy is marked by strife and
squable and power-plays and intrigue and jostling - much like things are
now, it is not a state of peaceful bliss, and it doesn't improve on its
own. Iranians would do better to stop waiting for the perfect regime to
be handed to us on a platter, and stop arguing over the past and the "what
if's" - instead get up and make the necessary sacrifices and put in
the effort and the time to do something constructive ... FULL
TEXT
* Conference: Media's Representation
of Iranians, DC
Iranians for International Cooperation
(IIC) presents:
Conference: "Mass Media's Representation of Iranians"
Washington DC, March 6
Featured speaker: Dr. Yahya R. Kamalipour, professor of Mass and International
Communications and director of graduate studies at the Department of Communication
and Creative Arts, Purdue University Calumet ... MORE
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Book of the Week
House of Sand and Fog
By Andre Dubus
Dubus tells his tragic tale from the viewpoints of the two main adversaries,
[Amir] Behrani [, a former colonel in the Iranian military under the Shah,]
and Kathy [Nicolo, a self-destructive alcoholic.] To both of them, the
house represents something more than just a place to live. For the colonel,
it is a foot in the door of the American Dream; for Kathy, a reminder of
a kinder, gentler past. In prose that is simple yet evocative The House
of Sand and Fog builds to its inevitable denouement, one that is painfully
dark but unfailingly honest. -- Alix Wilber, Amazon.com
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Moderate candidates barred from Iran election
Tehran, Feb 22, (BBC) - The first nationwide local elections in
Iran have been thrown into confusion just days before the polls after a
conservative-controlled supervisory board barred several moderate candidates
from standing. The candidates include the former Interior Minister Abdullah
Nouri, the student leader Ebrahim Asgharzadeh and an adviser to the president
... FULL TEXT
Iran's reformers campaign for ``Islam of
love''
TEHRAN, Feb 21 (Reuters) - President Mohammad Khatami's reformist
allies kicked off their campaign for Iran's first nationwide local council
elections with demands for ``an Islam of love'' that would break the grip
of the conservative clerical establishment. Former Khatami interior minister
Abdollah Nouri, who heads the biggest pro-reform ticket, told a campaign
rally on Saturday that his coalition rejected conservatives' attempts to
hold on to power by distorting the meaning and application of Islam ...
FULL TEXT
Four more arrests in dissident deaths
TEHRAN,
Iran (AP) -- Iranian authorities have arrested four more suspects in the
deaths of five dissidents, a military prosecutor said today. The prosecutor,
Mohammad Niyazi, told Tehran radio that one of the suspects was a businessman
who fled to Turkey but was brought back with the help of Turkish authorities
... FULL TEXT
Carter's son refused Iran visa
Saturday,
February 20, 1999, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has refused a visa to the son
of former President Jimmy Carter, who broke diplomatic ties with Iran in
1979, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported today. The agency
quoted an unnamed source as saying that James E. ``Chip'' Carter III, who
was to lead a group of Americans to Iran in May, was refused a visa because
of his ``past record.'' It did not elaborate ... FULL TEXT
Iran blames Iraq for killing of senior
cleric
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran blamed Iraq Sunday for the assassination
of a leading Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric and his two sons, saying the murders
were part of a systematic campaign of repression against the country's Shi'ite
community. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a statement
condemning the killings of Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and his sons
Friday, the second attack on senior Shi'ite clerics in Iraq this year ...
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Iran secures $900 mln loan for gasfield-MEES
NICOSIA, Feb 22 (Reuters) - The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)
is understood to have secured a loan worth some $900 million to develop
Iran's huge offshore South Pars gasfield, the Middle East Economic Survey
(MEES) reported on Monday. The Cyprus-based newsletter said the pre-financing
deal for the first-phase development will use crude from Iran's new Sirri
A and E fields as collateral for the credit facility arranged by France's
Credit Agricole ... FULL TEXT
Financing search delays Iran Caspian pipeline
deal
DUBAI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A deal to build a $347 million Caspian
Sea oil pipeline through Iran has been delayed by a tough search for consortium
partners who can deliver financing, an Iranian oil official said on Monday.
Iranian project management firm MAPNA was still seeking consortium partners
in Europe and had not ruled out two state-owned Chinese companies to help
construct the pipeline to Iran's northern refineries, the oil official told
Reuters ... FULL TEXT
New weightlifting record
Tehran
(Iran daily) - Shahin Nasiri-nia has set a new Asian weightlifting record
... IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
Think about a new goalie
Tehran
(Iran daily) - After the soccer games in Kuwait, one thing became clear:
Iran needs a new goalie ... IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
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The (uesless) art of whining
Put your money where your mouth is, go back to Iran, deal with the daily
frustrations, teach a course, invest some money, build a road, translate
a textbook, write a computer program, take responsibility - that is how
things get done. Whining, bickering, self-pity, nostalgia, trading 20-year
old jokes, and a longing for American validation or another revolution to
come along while sitting in L.A.- they don't help anything or anyone.
C. Safdari
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February 22, 1999
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