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Taleqan
Getting away from it all
Photos by Rasool Nafisi
July 26, 1999
The Iranian
Rasool Nafisi, dean of the department of general studies at Strayer
University in the Washington DC area, went to Iran last month to interview
"religious intellectuals" for his book on the re-secularization
of Iran.
Midway, he decided to take a short trip to Taleqan, which is about an
hour-and-a-half's drive from Tehran. He took these photographs with a Nikon
N70 , a Nikon 28-120 lens and Kodad ASA 200 film ... GO
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Widening gap
Reflections on the student uprising
 By Rasool Nafisi
July 26, 1999
The Iranian
When the son of Mohsen Rezai, the secretary of the Expediency Council
and one of the main players in Iranian clerical politics, surfaced in Washington
last year and asked for political asylum, it was obvious that the youth
had had it with the paternalistic structure of the Iranian state. Recent
events supported this view. A simple incident -- banning of a popular newspaper,
not un uncommon event in Iran -- ignited the wrath of the youth. Six days
of demonstrations and rebellion followed in more than a dozen cities. Lives
were lost and many casualties occurred. Why did it happen now? ... GO TO
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Outlook
Students place hopes in general election
TEHRAN, July 25 (Reuters) - Iran's pro-democracy students, whose campaign
suffered a setback during recent street riots in Tehran, said on Sunday
they expected February's parliamentary elections to deliver a blow to hardliners
opposed to reforms ... FULL
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An uprising or riot or neither?
Hamid-Reza Jalaie-Pour's column on the student protests ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Jaasem joke
From Abadan.com
Yeh baar Jaasem tuy-e khiyaabun raah miraft va mikhandid. yeki behesh
mireseh va migeh pas cheraa daari mikhani? jaasem javaab mideh: kho daarom
baraay-e khodom jok ta'rif mikonom. chand ghadam un taraf-tar jaasem yeho
mizaneh zir-e khandeh taa kabud misheh. miyaan soraaghesh va behesh migan
pas chet shod? Jaasem migeh: volek een jok ro nashnideh budam.
More Letters
* Wishful thinking
F. Rafat writes: I couldn't be more
agree with Mr. Hoveyda ["1999
not 1979"] about needing a leader in the recent demonstrations
in Iran. The Los Angeles-based Radio Iran in reply to most of the listners'
comments suggested that people should rise and continue the fight until
the present government is overthrown and then Reza Pahlavi or Banisadr
would step in and take over. Wishful thinking!
As for Mr. Khatami, he reminds me a lot of Mehdi Bazargan whose inability
to govern broght such havoc upon us. Mr. Khatami has betrayed the people
once again by giving nice promisses to his constituents, knowing that he
has no power to fulfil them.
* Women in Islam
Farina Yasmin Chaudry writes: I understand as an artist you have the
right to express yourself but the way that you express yourself should
have some limitations. Some of your art I think is truly poetic and beautiful
["The
gun and the gaze"]. I really do respect your talent. I do however
strongly disagree with how you portray women with rifles and blood.
I can not believe you would portray Islamic women like they were some
type of extremist missionaries. If you knew anything about Islam you would
know that Islam is a religion based upon peace and respect for women. Islam
was the first religion to give women true rights. Before Islam came around
pagans were burying their daughters in the sand. Islam was the first religion
to give women rights. It gave women the right to vote, it gave women the
right to own property. They say heaven is beneath your mothers feet and
the prophet himself told people to treat your mother better than your father
... FULL
TEXT
* Discussion: The Crisis in Iran
SPEAKERS: Darius Rejali (Professor of Political Science, Reed College),
Goudarz Eghtedari (Iranian Human Rights Working Group - U.S.A). TIME: Noon-1:30
pm, Wednesday, August 25, 1999. PLACE: The Governor Hotel, SW 10th and
Alder, Portland, Oregon ... DETAILS
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the leading pro-reform newspaper Salam guilty of printing classified material
and defamation, the official IRNA news agency said, raising the prospects
the influential daily will be silenced for good. The agency said Mohammad
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TEHRAN, July 26 (Reuters) - Pro-reform Iranian newspaper editors
on Monday condemned the guilty verdict of a clerical court against the editor-in-chief
of the leading daily Salam. Mohammad Mousavi-Khoeiniha, a leftist Shi'ite
Moslem cleric, was convicted on Sunday for publishing an allegedly classified
document, slandering officials and linking MPs to a rogue secret agent accused
of masterminding murders of dissidents last year ... FULL TEXT
Nationalist opposition leaders arrested
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's secret service said it had arrested the
leaders of a nationalist opposition movement in connection with recent social
unrest in Tehran. The Intelligence Ministry said in a communique published
in newspapers Monday that three senior members of the small Iran Nation
Party (INP) had been in custody since the outbreak of street riots in Tehran
in mid-July, following pro-democracy demonstrations. It identified the three
as Khosrow Seif, Bahram Namazi and Farzin Mokhber. Another activist of the
movement, Mehran Abdolbaqi, is also in detention, the ministry said ...
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TEHRAN, July 26 (Reuters) - An Iranian trade official said in remarks
published on Monday that Iran was unlikely to buy grain from the United
States and would purchase U.S. goods only if Washington allows imports of
Iranian products. ``We have have never given serious consideration to buying
grain from America, as prices are generally falling in world markets and
we do not need to buy goods from America,'' newspapers quoted Deputy Trade
Minister Masoud Karbasian as saying ... FULL TEXT
Turkey says diplomacy will solve Iran row
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, July 26 (Reuters) - Turkey's president and prime
minister on Monday both played down a row with Iran, stressing their will
for good neighbourly relations with Tehran. The two sides have exchanged
increasingly angry words in the past week. Iran said Turkish warplanes and
soldiers had violated its border in two separate incidents, and demanded
an apology... FULL TEXT
Report: Iranian spy in Berlin
July
24, 1999 BERLIN (AP) -- Prosecutors have arrested an Iranian man accused
of infiltrating Iranian opposition groups in Germany, a magazine reported
Saturday. The man, a former student, was arrested in mid-July in Berlin
and is being held on spy charges, Der Spiegel said, without citing sources
... FULL TEXT
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Tehran,
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film reviews in various magazines, has written a feature on the genius that
Stanley Kubrik was ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Shahnamehmania
Tehran,
(Neshat) - There are at least three plays based on Ferdowsi's Shahnameh
currently on stage in Tehran ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Pooyanamaaee?
Tehran,
(Neshat) - A catalogue listening the works of Iranian animators has just
been published. Iran's first international animation ("pooyaanamaaee")
festival was held last February ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Constitutional freedoms
I say from the bottom of my heart and soul that our Islamic republic
system can only carry on if it guarantees the maximum of legitimate freedoms
within the framework of the constitution.
-- Salam publisher Mohammad Mousavi-Khoeiniha
Reuters
July 25, 1999
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