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Let's do business
All is fair in love and trade
By Shahriar Afshar
June 11, 1999
The Iranian
There have been some recent developments in the sanctions debate in
Washington that have significant impact on the business community. This
is namely due to a recent presidential announcement and several new congressional
bills meant to reinstate the U.S. as a reliable supplier in the international
trade community. But we are no there yet.
An old friend once told me that there is no leadership by consensus.
That is a great slogan for a yuppie office poster but truth be known, that
old friend of mine is now very alone and generally considered to be like
a bull in a china shop. No one relates to him because he does not make
an effort to relate to his surroundings or to changing times. In retrospect,
I think shortly after the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy took a left turn
somewhere and got lost when it came to being a team player. The only way
we can find our way back into the international community is to use trade
opportunities abroad as our guiding light ... GO
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Outlook
Not only in Iran
By Orit Shohat
Haaretz, Israeli daily
Friday, June 11, 1999
These days, when we talk about the rule of law, as if everyone, apart
from those who voted Shas, was irreproachable, it is worth drawing attention
to the injustices committed under the very aeges of that law. Shocking
things are going on, and not only in Iran.
Here, too, we have people who have been kidnapped from their homes and
sent to jail for no reason, or for something unconnected to them or anything
they did. One unsettling example is that of 21 Lebanese citizens who are
being held in Israel only because one day they may be used as a bargaining
chip in exchange for missing Israeli navigator Ron Arad ... FULL
TEXT
I wonder what you will think
My name is Don Roberts and I live in New Zealand in the South Pacific.
I suspect you know about this country but many people in countries other
than my own have never heard of this little country. By the way we are
NOT part of Australia.
I might add that I have just been reading on the net a little of the
history of your country politically since the fall of the Shah. I understand
your favourite sport there is wrestling. Is this true? Ours is Rugby Union
and our international team is called The All Blacks. I live in Whangarei.
Ever heard of it? It is actually two hours by road from Auckland our main
city.
I wonder what you will think of receiving this email from so far away.
I would delighted to get a reply from such a far off land.
Kind regards,
Don
PS: Sorry I know nothing of your language
More Letters
* Genetic link
Arman Sepehri writes:
As a person involved in medical research, I have something to mention which
may be helpful in the big arguement over the article "I
must be a Jew".
According to a gentical study done by scientists at Harvard University
(published in Human Immunology, September 15, 1997, Volume 57, pages
62 -67), it is very possible that non-Jewish Iranians and all Jews have
a common ancestral origin. Does this help?
* Looks/sounds Iranian? It's Iranian
Guive Mirfendereski writes: About
a year or so ago, Agassi's now estranged wife, Brook Shields was asked
by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show about Agassi's origin. She said he considers
himself Armenian ["Andre
the great"].
As for why he does not connect with Iran and Iranians? The answer may
be in his father's story of coming to America and the disdain which he
may have brought with him. Besides, given the anti-Iranianism of the late
to mid-eighties, very little would have been gained by this person as a
public moneymaker to be wrapping himself in a flag which was not very much
appreciated. Remember the Iron Sheikh, the punching bag in professional
wrestling and myriad of other subtle and not so subtle anti-Iranian sentiment?
I do not recall Pete Sampras ever making much of his Greek heritage.
Why do people root for him? For the same reason that when the credits roll
at the end of the movie, I look for Iranian sounding or looking names.
Call it a perverse way of vicariously experiencing assimilation.
* Mexican actress
Malihe Evans writes:
Who is Iran Castillo [Anyway
section, June 10]? She is a Mexican singer and soap opera actress.
She was born in Veracruz and you can see her on Univision in a telenovela
called "preciosa".
There is another Mexican actress with the first name Iran. She is Iran
Eory and who was born in Tehran.
Yes Spanish helps, even if it is helping with little things of not much
importance!
Thank god you have the Anyway section.
* Play: Bayzaie's play opens in Berkeley
Saturday
Written By: Bahram Bayzaie
Translated By: Bella Warda and Zara Houshmand
Directed By: Jim Cave
Location: South Berkeley Community Church, Berkeley, California
A joint production by Darvag and Shotgun Players (also based in Berkeley
California). Opening Night: Saturday, June 12, $20... DETAILS
HERE
Book of the Week
The Subject Tonight Is Love
60 Wild & Sweet Poems of Hafiz
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
For centuries Hafiz has been called, "The Tongue of the Invisible."
Through his sublime works he continues to sing beautiful and wild love
songs ... GO TO BOOK
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Iran warns that Jewish "spies"
risk death
TEHRAN,
June 11 (AFP) - Iran's judicial chief warned Friday that 13 Jews charged
with spying for arch-enemy Israel risk execution in a case that threatens
to cloud efforts by moderate President Mohammad Khatami for detente with
the West. "These people are charged with selling out the rights of
60 million Iranians to the Zionist regime," Yazdi told the crowds at
Tehran University ... FULL TEXT
Jesse Jackson to try to help accused Iranian
Jews
LOS ANGELES, June 11 (Reuters) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who secured
the release of three U.S. soldiers captured in Yugoslavia, indicated on
Friday he might be on the verge of another mission -- to Iran, where 13
Iranian Jews have been imprisoned on espionage charges. Jackson also announced
a private effort to help ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo with airlifts
of medical aid and supplies to refugee camps and to the Yugoslav province,
which is awaiting the return of hundreds of thousands of people ... FULL
TEXT
Baghdad accuses Tehran of firing missiles
into Iraq, threatens riposte
BAGHDAD,
June 11 (AFP) - Baghdad on Friday accused Tehran of firing three long-range
missiles into a military base of the Iranian People's Mujahedeen in Iraq
and threatened a riposte. "The Iranian regime carried out a cowardly
attack against Iraq by firing on Thursday at 8:46 p.m. (1646 GMT) three
long-range surface-to-surface missiles at one of the bases of the People's
Mujahedeen," a government spokesman told the official news agency INA
... FULL TEXT
Statement in support of student movement
in Iran
Statement in Support of the Pro-Democracy Movement of Iranian University
Students, Faculty and Researchers by Iranian Exiled and Immigrant University
Academics: We, the undersigned, the Iranian exiled/immigrant university
faculty and researchers, express our admiration for your struggle and our
concern about the detrimental circumstances against which you struggle.
Some of us, who were involved in similar struggles in the past, are familiar
with the sheer danger confronting you ... FULL TEXT
Khatami calls for legalization of opposition
groups
TEHRAN,
June 11 (AFP) - Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami has called for
greater tolerance for dissenting views and the legalization of opposition
groups, the official IRNA news agency reported Friday. Differences of opinion
are a "normal phenomenon" and "should be recognized as a
normal and accepted trend," the president told a reformist group which
backs his policies, the Islamic Iran Participation Front ... FULL TEXT
U.S. Administration pressured on food sanctions
10 June 1999 (RFE/RL) -- Members of the U.S. Congress pressured
the administration of President Bill Clinton on Wednesday to help finance
sales of food and medicine to nations that have been subject to U.S. embargoes.
In a hearing of the House of Representatives (lower chamber) Agriculture
Committee, several congressmen urged the administration to provide U.S.
official financing for food sales to embargoed countries like Iran. Such
a move would go beyond President Clinton's recent policy decision of simply
allowing exports of food and medical items on humanitarian grounds ... FULL
TEXT
Moody's rates Iran foreign currency bonds
NEW
YORK, June 10 (Moody's press release) - Moody's assigned a B2 foreign currency
ceiling for bonds and notes to the Islamic Republic of Iran and a B3 ceiling
for foreign currency bank deposits. The long-term domestic currency bonds
issued by the government were rated at Ba2. The B2 ceiling reflects a weak
economic structure that is prone to balance of payments crisis when oil
prices collapse ... FULL TEXT
Another disaster: Iran 0 - Bahrain 2
Tehran,
(IRNA) - The national under-23 soccer team has been defeated again, this
time by Bahrain. Prospects for qualifying for the Sydney Olympics now look
grim ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Khakpour in America
Tehran,
(Donya-ye Varzesh) - National team player Mohammad Khakpour may join an
American soccer team ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Here and there
Tehran,
(Donya-ye Varzesh) - Latest rumors from the Iranian soccer scene... Arsenal
is seeking Mahdavi-kia? ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Regaining lost goals
Your movement correctly seeks to regain the lost goals of the [Iranian]
Revolution [of 1979] and give them back to the people of Iran.
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June 1999
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