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Rumi
Fiction
Translated by Laleh Khalili
July 27, 1999
The Iranian
My heart is taut
and all music here is dead to melody.
Let's gather all we have
and commence on the secret road without a return
just to see if the sky is the same color everywhere.
-- M. Omid
Talkhun wasn't like any of the Merchant's other daughters. Moon-Farang,
Moon-Sultan, Moon-Sun, Moon-Begum, Moon-Moluk, and Moon-Face, the six other
daughters of the Merchant, each had her own pretensions, her own demands.
Sometimes, hearing their noise and play, all the neighbors' sons would
come out into the streets. The sound of the lusty and joyful laughter of
the Merchant's daughters was the talk of the town. Everyone spoke of how
fashionable and full of appetites they were. Their luscious and plump bodies
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Khatami says no turning back on justice
 HAMADAN, Iran, July 27 (Reuters) - President Mohammad
Khatami, his reformist policies under attack by hardliners after some of
the worst unrest since the 1979 Islamic revolution, pledged on Tuesday
to stand by his election promise to protect civil liberties. Khatami kicked
off a three-day tour of the western province of Hamadan with an address
to a capacity crowd in the local sports stadium, his first public appearance
since pro-democracy student protests on July 8-13
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of your correspondent, Soma 007, in Tehran, and more generally by your
coverage of recent events in Iran. Thank you.
* Groundless assumptions
Maziar Shirazi writes: In response
to Farina Yasmin Chaudry: I think that how
a person chooses to express him/herself has no limits, just as freedom
doesn't have limits, and to put a stopper on creativity would result in
the ruin of human civilization as we know it ["The
gun and the gaze"].
We cannot tell each other what to dream, what to think, what to do,
what to write, and what to draw. That is only for the individual to decide,
and not for Anyone to interfere with. If we do this we have violated a
right more sacred than life itself, for if a person does not have freedom
of expression or thought, there is no point to it.
Your assumption that Islam was for the greater good of the female sex
is a groundless one. I seem to remember quite clearly that in the religion
of Islam if a woman is raped she is to be killed to purify her of the dishonor.
There was a case in Pakistan of a woman getting raped by her own brother
and then being killed by her family, for her brother's vice. Also, only
recently was the stoning of women in Iran outlawed ... FULL
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TEHRAN, July 26 (Reuters) - Fears at home and abroad of a possible
coup against reformist President Mohammad Khatami are unjustified but a
broad attempt to undermine his political and social reform programme remains
a serious threat, his brother and political confidant said on Monday. Reza
Khatami, who heads his brother's political faction, said recent unrest was
part of an orchestrated effort by Iran's conservatives to drive the president
from office that began with his 1997 election landslide and will continue
through parliamentary polls next February ... FULL TEXT
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei met Tuesday with about 30 students who were injured in the
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Tehran,
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physics olympiad. The Russian team took first place, followed by Iran and
the U.S. ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Turkish generals say bombed north Iraq,
not Iran
ANKARA, July 27 (Reuters) - The chief of Turkey's air force was
quoted on Tuesday as saying Turkish warplanes had killed Iranian officers
who were training Kurdish rebels in a camp in northern Iraq ... FULL TEXT
27 dead, 20 still missing after flood
TEHRAN,
July 27 (AFP) - Iranian officials said late Tuesday that 20 people are still
missing after confirming three more people died in a flood along the Caspian
Sea, bringing the death toll to 27 ... FULL TEXT
U.S. sets food sale rules for Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. farmers will be able to compete for
an estimated $2 billion in grain sales to Iran, Libya and Sudan under long-awaited
new rules that will become effective Tuesday, Clinton administration officials
said Monday ... FULL TEXT
Ansaldo signs Euro 840 m Iranian gas deal
July
21, (European Report) - Ansaldo Energia, a unit of Italian state engineering
group Finmeccanica , has signed a 1.6 trillion Lire (Euro 840 million) gas
deal with Iran Power Developmen ... FULL TEXT
Khatami's task has barely begun
July
30, 1999 (Middle East Economic Digest) President Khatami's economic reforms
have been more limited than the political changes he has introduced in the
past two years. Restructuring of the "sick economy" frequently
cited by the president may have to await the right political conditions
in another couple of years ... FULL TEXT
From selling fruits in Tehran to selling
art in London
Tehran, (Neshat) - Khosro Hasanzadeh used to sell fruits at Imam
Hossein Sqaure in Tehran. Now he's the talk of the town in London -- as
a promising painter ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Banietemad in London
Tehran, (Iran Daily) - Leading Iranian female film director Rakhshan
Banietemad is in London, talking with the BBC and thinking about her new
film, "Tuba" ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Qaderi making a "clean" film?
Tehran,
(Iran Daily) - Iraj Qaderi, who doesn't seem to be able to get rid of his
reputation as a maker of sleezy B movies, is thinking of making a "healthier,
cleaner" film ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Hashemian: "Great star"
Tehran,
(Iran Daily) - Even though he hasn't playes much for his new German club,
Hamburg, Vahid Hashemian is being described as "great star" ...
FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Pass considering German offers
Tehran,
(Neshat) - After their recent traing camp in Germany, Pass soccer club may
sell a couple more of its top players to German teams ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Very generous!
Tehran,
(Neshat) - Pass managers were so impressed by the performance of their players
in Germany that they gave them a load of cash to go out and party -- well
as much as 200 marks worth! ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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