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Those summer days
Memories of grandma's big old house and orchard
By xAle
June 10, 1999
The Iranian
Each year right after the end of school, we would pack up for three
months and spend the summer with grandma. She lived in a big old house
with my aunt and uncles. Everyone called her Khanoom Jan. She ruled the
birooni as well as the andarooni with her strong presence
and loving gestures. Almost every week she had a project which involved
everyone in the family and we all had to take part and do something.
With so many beautiful and productive trees, we had endless fun at the
orchard: Climbing trees to reach for the biggest and brightest fruit, hiding
from everyone for hours and reading (giving Grandma a scare!), watching
trains go by from the seclusion of a tree, escaping the afternoon heat
in the breezy canopy of an old apricot tree, dreaming, shaking trees at
harvest time, charting our growth line and carving the names of the ones
we loved on the trunks... those were our summer days ... GO
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Iranian Jews: an ancient but diminishing community
TEHRAN, June 10 (AFP) - Iran's Jewish community dates back more than
2,500 years but has been in steady decline since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Since the shah was toppled and the Islamic clergy severed ties with
Israel, around 35,000 Jews have fled, leaving a population of about 27,000
in a country whose population is 99 percent Moslem.
However, Judaism is recognised by the Iranian constitution as an official
minority religion alongside Christianity and Zoroastrianism... FULL TEXT
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* Enemy within
Sara O. writes: When you talk about
Iranian people and their hatefulness and lack of compassion towards other
nationalities, races and religions, you should take a moment and try to
remember who you are ["I
must be a Jew"]. The people of Iran consist of us. You and I and
others like us and if it so happens that some uneducated and ill-informed
individual, makes certain ignorant remark about certain creed or belief,
it must not be interpreted as a widespread preconceived notion, which Iranians
have been passing on through generations...
I would only like to inform you that you are very much mistaken when
you say "Jews are being perceived by Iranians as evil, cunning and
greedy creatures" and being "trashed" by them. What is being
detested and scorned by our people is not the nation of Israel, it is the
state of Israel that was brought to power and established by the West (Britain)
to be "a strong fortress of civilization and to defend it from all
those savages and barbarians who were surrounding it, at any cost."
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* Let's not get patriotic over him
Payman Adjamian writes: Am
I the only one who doesn't understand all the Iranian hype surrounding
Agassi? ["Andre
the great"] His father was an Iranian but that's as far as it
goes. As far as I know he's never mentioned it himself and doesn't take
particular pride in being born of an Iranian parent. Has he ever been to
Iran? Does he speak the language? Does he have any knowledge of the country's
past and present? Does he even care?
Although I always find myself rooting for him each time I see him play,
I don't see why we should claim him as one of our own. He is a great tennis
player and has an eccentric personality. But let's not get all patriotic
over him. I am curious whether he has ever been interviewed about all this,
or does he answer questions about these issues. Maybe an Iranian should
actually interview him so that we can see what this guy is really all about.
* Meeting: Status of human rights in
Iran
Will be the subject of an unprecedented town-hall meeting to be held
in Washington DC, metropolitan area. Guest speakers will be experts on
Iran in the United States, tele-conferencing with human rights activists
LIVE from Iran. We urge all Iranians to attend this unique event to discuss
your concerns on these subjects.
DATE: Saturday, June 26, 1999
TIME: 3:00 PM
LOCATION: George Marshall High School Auditorium
7731 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, Virginia
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between Saudi Arabia and non-Arab Iran as encouraging and hopes the rapprochement
will help ease tensions in the Gulf, a Saudi paper on Thursday quoted a
U.S. official as saying ... FULL TEXT
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600 war dead
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here Thursday for 600 Iranian soldiers killed during the 1980-1988 war with
Iraq ... FULL TEXT
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families and a former official at the state Blood Transfusion Organisation,
Iranian media reported on Thursday ... FULL TEXT
Georgia, Armenia, Iran join in anti-drug
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officials said. ... FULL TEXT
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