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Rumi
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Common sense
No one has chronicled Iranian events quite like Masoud Behnoud
Masoud Behnoud was born in 1947. He has been writing articles for various
journals since 1964. In all he has 300 interviews and more than 1,000 articles
to his credit, as well as at least eight documentaries, 50 TV programs
and seven books.
What's so impressive about Behnoud's body of work is his uncommon common
sense and ability to grasp and convey current events in a balanced way.
He reflects the mood of a nation; a true journalist, an endangered species
in a country that badly needs the likes of him to quench the thirst for
reliable and balanced news ... GO
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Outlook
Khatami visit to Italy marks new credibility for Iran
TEHRAN, March 8 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami's visit to Italy
this week, the first by an Iranian leader to a western European nation
since the 1979 revolution, marks a major triumph on the road to international
credibility for the Islamic regime.
Khatami's visit, which begins Tuesday and will include talks with Italian
President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and a Vatican meeting with Pope John Paul
II, is the clearest sign yet that his bid to increase Iran's standing in
the eyes of the international community is succeeding.
Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini on Sunday welcomed the trip and
said Italy wanted to help Iran "out of isolation."
"If Europe wants to be a model for others, it must understand and
respect others," he told an Italian newspaper.
"Isolation cannot promote a more open and tolerant society,"
Dini said ... FULL
TEXT
Sex-starved camel kills master's son
RIYADH, March 7 (AFP) - A camel killed his master's five-year-old son
in anger at being tied down alone during the mating season, a Saudi newspaper
reported on Sunday.
The camel bit the child by the waist and shook him violently to death.
The father could only look on in shock before shooting dead the animal,
the daily Okaz said.
It said camel owners in the Dibaa area of northern Saudi Arabia had
been warned not to tie down their animals during the breeding season.
Thanks to Payman Arabshahi
More Letters
* No visa, no tourist
Ben Moores
writes: I have just returned from Iran after a months holiday in the country
and thus your article ["Waking
the friendly giant"] was of great interest
to me. As a first-time British visitor I believe I have an interesting
angle on the debate. I have a few points, beyond the obvious, as to why
tourism in Iran is so limited.
1) Getting a visa is all but impossible in the
UK unless you are prepared to pay £150 + to an agency. Being continually
accused of being a spy doesn't help either! In fact, unless you have relations
in Iran or you pay an agency you cannot get a visa ... FULL
TEXT
* Noruz: Persian Center's Noruz party
in, SF Bay
Persian Center in San Francisco's Bay Area is proud to present the ONE
& ONLY major party in March spanning TWO years!
Join the Community as ONE extended family at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday,
March 20, 1999, to gather around a wonderful "Haft-seen" table
and begin our countdown towards the Persian New Year of 1378, at 5:45 p.m.
There will be dance and musical performances to warm your heart, theater
and poetry performances to invigorate your mind, and a Persian Dinner to
entice your senses...as well as DJ Dancing to help you start the New Year
IN SHAPE! ... DETAILS
HERE
Book of the Week
A Taste of Persia
An Introduction to Persian Cooking
By Najmieh Batmanglij
A Taste of Persia is a collection of authentic recipes from one of the
world's oldest cuisines, chosen and adapted for today's lifestyle and kitchen.
Here are light appetizers and kababs, hearty stews and rich, golden-crusted
rices, among many other dishes, all fragrant with the distinctive herbs,
spices, or fruits of Iran. Each recipe offers clear, easy-to-follow, step-by-step
instructions. Most take less than an hour to prepare; many require only
a few moments; many others can be made in advance. Besides its 100 recipes
and 60 photographs, the book includes a useful dictionary of Persian cooking
techniques and ingredients.
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Reformers score another big win, sweep
Tehran elections
TEHRAN,
March 8 (AFP) - Reformist supporters of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami
swept all 15 seats on the Tehran municipal council Monday in another stunning
defeat over the Islamic regime's conservatives. The victory is a powerful
endorsement of the president's reform agenda on the eve of his historic
trip to Italy, the first to a western European nation by an Iranian head
of state since the 1979 Islamic revolution ... FULL TEXT
Iran police torture case heightens political
tensions
TEHRAN,
March 7 (AFP) - The head of security affairs for the Iranian police is to
be tried for torture in a case that has further heightened simmering political
tensions between reformers and hardliners in the Islamic republic. General
Mohammad-Reza Naghdi and 10 other officers will be tried in a military court
on May 3 on charges of beating and torturing top officials in the Tehran
municipal government, it was announced last week ... FULL TEXT
Criticism mounting against powerful Iranian
religious court
TEHRAN,
March 8 (AFP) - Reformers stepped up the pressure on Iran's special religious
court Monday amid growing public anger at one of the Islamic regime's most
hardline institutions. A reformist MP lashed out at Iran's all-powerful
Special Court for Clergy (SCC) over its arrest of liberal cleric Mohsen
Kadivar, who is increasingly being seen here as a political prisoner in
a case that has sparked public demonstrations and widespread outrage ...
FULL TEXT
Hundreds of Iranian students rally in Tehran
TEHRAN,
March 7 (AFP) - Several hundred Iranian students demonstrated at Tehran
university Sunday over the arrest of leading liberal cleric Mohsen Kadivar,
defying calls to postpone the rally over fears of violence. Anti-riot police
stationed around the campus put a quick end to a shoving match that erupted
between protesters and Islamic fundamentalists but otherwise there was no
violence ... FULL TEXT
Iran says its oil market open to US, calls
for end to embargo
TEHRAN,
March 7 (AFP) - Iran stepped up the pressure to end the US embargo with
the surprise announcement Sunday that US oil companies face "no obstacle"
to doing business in the Iranian oil industry. "There is no obstacle
to US oil companies participating in oil development projects in Iran,"
Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said, clearly referring to Washington's unilateral
trade embargo which prohibits US companies from doing business here. He
underscored the point by stressing that the embargo served only to hamper
US business interests ... FULL TEXT
Iran begins new express train service in
Tehran
TEHRAN,
March 7 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami inaugurated a new electric
train link on Sunday between Tehran and the city of Karaj in the western
Tehran province ... FULL TEXT
Iran facing off against Japan
Tehran,
(IRNA) - Iran and Japan will face-off Tuesday to determine one of the finalists
of the Asian indoor soccer championsips ... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT
Women chess champions
Tehran,
(Hamshahri) - Winners of Iran's women's open chess championship ... FULL
PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT
Obituary
Stanley Kubrick, film director with a bleak vision, dies
at 70
Stanley Kubrick, the famously reclusive director of such classic films
as "Dr. Strangelove," "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "A
Clockwork Orange," died Sunday at his home in England, his family said.
He was 70. The police were summoned to Kubrick's rural home in Hertfordshire,
north of London, Sunday afternoon, when he was pronounced dead ... FULL TEXT
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End isolation
Isolation cannot promote a more open and tolerant society.
Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini on the need to end Iran's isolation
"Khatami
visit to Italy marks new credibility for Iran"
AFP
March 7, 1999
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