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Rumi
Poetry
I close my eyes
A poem
June 25, 1999
The Iranian
A poem by Nagmeh Shariat-Madar, a second-generation Iranian-American,
currently a sophomore at a high school in Michigan.
I close my eyes
from the evil stares
the scandalous glares
the stupid dares
from the flip-up knives
the black-and-blue-eyed wives ... GO TO FEATURE
Outlook
Op-Ed
Mapping out a dialogue with Iran
By Ze'ev Schiff
Haaretz
June 25, 999
Anyone who has thought about the arrest of a group of Jews in Iran on
charges of spying for Israel and the United States can't help but wonder
why Jews who live in a place where the ayatollahs determine how minorities
shall be treated and hand out death sentences to suit their religious and
political purposes would elect to put themselves at risk.
For a Jew, living in today's Iran is like wandering in an unmarked minefield.President
Khatami's declaration that Iranian Jews enjoy full rights is worthless.
Khatami has not managed to grant protection even to his close associates
who have been put on trial.... FULL
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President Roosevelt in Tehran
In December 1943, the leaders of Russia, Britain and the United States
met in Tehran to coordinate their efforts against Nazi Germany. While in
Tehran President Roosevelt met with American soldiers at a hospital. Here's
what he had to say ... FULL
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More Letters
* Do something about it
S. Marvasti writes: What really
disturbed me about mr Sia M's article ["Son,
don't ever do that again"] isn't the poor state of health care
in Iran Now and in the past, but his sense of anguish or detachment.
If you look at logically, at least nowadays everyone knows the dire
straight position of Iranian economy, so much more than criticism is needed.
We need people with vision, funds and the commitment to make a difference,
and not tape recorders taping the misery we all know that exists...
It all comes down to believing that EACH and EVERY one of us CAN make
a DIFFERENCE. And collectively, who knows how many lives and how many jobs
we can save and create without the need to wait (forever) until a great
government comes about ... FULL
TEXT
* I hope you go to heaven
Dear Sholom,
Hamid Salamipour, M.D. writes:
I was very impressed by your letter ["You
belong in hell"], it proudly displays your open mind and impressive
level of intellectual sophistication. Thank you very much for eloquently
describing how all 60-something million of us think and act alike.
From your letter I infer that all the Jews think the same, all the Christians
feel similarly about everything, and all the Hindus believe in one thing,
.....oh, I almost forgot, all the Americans are ignorant bastards, all
the Germans are Jew-killing Nazis, all Britons are colonialists, and all
the Israelis are ultraorthodox radicals...
I hope you go to heaven, because I hope God (mine and yours are one
and the same, like it or not) forgives you, and all the bigoted idiots
like you, whether they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, or whatever.
A civilized Iranian
Boston
* Lectureship: Teach Persian at Manchester
University, UK
Applications are invited for a post of Lecturer in Persian in the Department
of Middle Eastern Studies, Manchester University (UK). The post will be
held initially for five years. The successful candidate will have an excellent
research record, and will have completed a PhD or be near completion. Informal
enquiries may be made to the Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies,
Dr Colin Imber, email: colin.imber@man.ac.uk
... DETAILS HERE
Book of the Week
The Legend of the Persian Carpet
By Tomie De Paola
Children who've been told of the diamond's legendary hardness may question
the ease with which this one is shattered. A king, accustomed to dwelling
in a light-filled room where a large diamond creates a million rainbows,
is bereft when it's stolen and smashed, and thereafter takes his only pleasure
in staring at the fragments, away from the subjects who need him. An apprentice
weaver comes up with the idea of making a magnificent carpet that will
lure the king back to his duties. It works. But, unfortunately, neither
the words nor the art here convincingly suggests the lure of the diamond's
prismatic play or the carpet's intricate patterns. Readers will have to
take these on faith. Still, Ewart's illustrations are prettily evocative
of old Persia, and perhaps the tale will pique interest in this ancient
art form ... GO TO BOOK
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TEHRAN,
June 25 (AFP) - A high-ranking British trade delegation, the biggest since
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after Tehran and London normalized diplomatic ties. "It's the most
important post-revolution mission of its kind," Darmott Graham, a coordinator
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June 25 (AFP) - French Jewish organizations on Friday called for renewed
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on charges of spying has provoked an outcry. They said that 13 public figures
would chain themselves in front of the Iranian embassy in Paris on June
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WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - The Clinton Administration will
publish rules governing the sale of food and medicine to Iran, Sudan and
Libya soon, a top U.S. Agriculture Department official said on Friday. ``We're
getting pretty close,'' Chris Goldthwait, General Sales Manager at the department,
told Reuters, noting that there were only one or two details that need to
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and send an ambassador there in August after years of tension caused by
a death order against British author Salman Rushdie, officials said on Friday.
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told Reuters ... FULL TEXT
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TEHRAN,
June 25 (AFP) - Iran condemned Friday Israel's overnight raids in Lebanon
that killed eight people and called for the international community to force
Israel to stop. The attacks showed "the belligerent and aggressive
spirit of the Zionist regime," Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hamid
Reza Assefi was quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying ... FULL
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Iran offering Cambodia military aid: report
PHNOM
PENH, June 25 (AFP) - Senior Iranian officials have visited Cambodia to
offer military aid including training, it was reported here Friday. The
English-language Phnom Penh Post said Commander-in-Chief Ke Kim Yan initially
turned down an offer made three months ago for fear of upsetting western
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Tehran,
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