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Noruz
Fire with fire
Tehranis hold their ground and celebrate charshanbeh suri
By Laleh Khalili
There was a fire burning in every street, there were home made fireworks
flying all about, in the darker side streets, there were even completely
unveiled women jumping over the fires and passing out pastries. The occasion
calls for boldness and for joy, and both were in high supply... The air
smelled the delicious smell of wood smoke, and I saw more bliss in one
street in a couple of hours than I have in one and half months in all of
Iran ... GO
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Noruz
A smile, at last
The Komiteh joins the charshanbeh suri festivities
Photo by Siamak Namazi
These photographs were the taken during charshanbeh suri celebrations
at the Behjatabat complex. The Komiteh "moral police" was actually
fun to have around this year. (For the first time since the revolution
they announced the celebration is not banned -- though it was carried out
every year anyway). I even had the Komiteh guy below pose for me with a
sparkler ... GO
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Outlook
The kids are all right
Don't tell the clerics, but Iranian films sparkle with wisdom,
ambiguity and movie magic
BY RICHARD CORLISS
TIME magazine
MARCH 15, 1999
A child's arm stretches out, as far as it can, to pour water from a
cup onto a scruffy potted plant. This, the first image in Samira Makhmalbaf's
The Apple, introduces with poetic clarity the film's strange, true story:
of 12-year-old twin girls imprisoned by their father in their Tehran home,
away from sunlight, from the friendship of other kids, from the smallest
ecstasies and exasperations of childhood. This wise, poignant film was
made under unusual circumstances. The father and the girls were persuaded
to play themselves, and Makhmalbaf was only 17 when she shot it. But extraordinary
Iranian films have been almost...ordinary. Savvy cinephiles know that Iran
is the place where movie miracles happen all the time ... FULL
TEXT
Correction: PERSIAN Gulf
A few weeks ago many Iranians, instigated by an alert sent out by
the Iranian American Republican
Council, sent emails to the producers of a NOVA documentary complaining
about the reference to "The Arabian Gulf". Here's today's reply
from NOVA:
I am writing in response to your email regarding your unhappiness with
our use of the term "Arabian Gulf" on NOVA's recent broadcast
of "Battle Alert in the Gulf." Your letter and others like it
drew our attention to this issue and I am pleased to report that we listened
and responded.
First, I want to assure you that we did not refer to the Gulf as the
Arabian Gulf for any political reasons. United States Naval officers in
the program refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf and we continued
to call it that in our narration for reasons of consistency only. We now
understand that "Arabian Gulf" is not an internationally recognized
name for the region. As a result, we have changed the narration in the
program so that we refer to it only as "the Gulf" or "the
Persian Gulf."
This change will occur before the program is duplicated for home video
sales. NOVA will also send to PBS this revised program master prior to
the next scheduled repeat broadcast.
More Letters
* Big difference
Nariman Neyshapouri writes:
Realistically speaking, it is very unlikely that a Kurdistan will ever
happen. There's not a chance in Jahanam that Syria, Iraq, Iran, and especially
Turkey will ever relinquish territory. Ultimately, I think that Kurds need
to wake up to reality and realize that this will never happen.
Most Iranian Kurds I know of, including my mother's side of my family,
are both Kurdish and Iranian, and they're proud to be both. They are more
than content to allow their Kurdish roots to simply be just another ethnicity
in the rich melting pot of ethnicities that we have in Iran ... FULL TEXT
* Noruz: Noruz celebration in Seattle
Noruz is now recognized by Microsoft sidewalk.com //seattle.sidewalk.com/detail/60440
Sat. March 20th
Seattle University
Campion Tower Ballroom
Dinner, show, music, dance, Amoo Norooz brings gifts Come, have fun,
dance, visit your friends...
Hurry! Seating is limited
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Author Cyrus Tahbaz dies
Tehran, March 17, (IRNA) - The renown Iranian author and
translator Cyrus Taahbaaz, passed away Tuesday night in Tehran due to a
brain complication, at the age of 59. Funeral processions will be held starting
8:00 am this Friday from Tehran's Vahdat Hall. He is to be buried in the
old house of Nima Yushij, father of modern Persian poetry, in the village
of Yush in Mazandaran.
Elected councils members "not to be
vetted"
Tehran,
March 17, irna -- deputy minister for political and social affairs mostafa
tajzadeh said here wednesday that all candidates for membership in the city
and urban councils who were elected last month do not have to pass through
any further vetting procedure. he said every rumour to the country emanating
from whatsoever source is invalid and must not be heeded. tajzadeh said
insofar as the interior ministry is concerned the issue of meeting qualification
criteria by candidates is long since over and done with ... FULL TEXT
15 Held on Charges of Helping Alleged Terrorists
Enter U.S.
March
17, 1999, (Los Angeles Times) - Federal authorities arrested 15 people Tuesday
on charges of operating an immigration fraud ring that helped members of
an alleged Iranian terrorist group, among others, enter the United States
illegally. U.S. Atty. Alejandro N. Mayorkas and other law enforcement officials
refused, however, to provide any details about infiltration of the country
by Mujahedeen Khalq members ... FULL TEXT
Russia offers US deal to end its nuclear
aid to Iran
WASHINGTON,
March 17 (AFP) - Russia will offer to curtail its nuclear cooperation with
Iran if United States lifts its sanctions on two Russian research facilities,
The New York Times said Wednesday. The offer, revealed by Russian Energy
Minister Yevgeny Adamov during an interview, will be made during Russian
Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov's visit to Washington next week, the daily
said ... FULL TEXT
It's business first for Iran at UAE arms
fair despite island row
ABU
DHABI, March 17 (AFP) - Under the motto of "business first," Iranian
exhibitors have tried to attract potential buyers from around the world
at the Abu Dhabi arms fair despite Tehran's islands dispute with their Emirati
hosts. "It's been going fairly well. We are confident in the interest
shown," said Hossein Shahbazi Jafari, an official of Iran's defence
ministry overseeing Iran's participation ... FULL TEXT
Iran pins hopes on OPEC to meet budget
forecasts
TEHRAN,
March 17 (AFP) - Iran's central bank governor said Wednesday he expects
promised OPEC cutbacks to enable the Islamic republic to meet its budget
forecasts and bring a return to monetary stability. "Given the present
trend in the world oil market there is a great possibility that figures
stipulated in next year's state budget will be realised and the country's
monetary situation will be stabilised," Mohsen Nurbakhsh told the official
IRNA news agency ... FULL TEXT
Iran official says trade zones to get liberal
laws
TEHRAN,
March 17 (Reuters) - A senior Iranian official said on Wednesday he expected
liberal laws fostering foreign investment in Iran's free trade zones to
be passed despite the opposition of a top conservative body. ``The whole
thing will be wrapped up in two months. I don't think we will have any problems
with laws and regulations in the trade zones,'' said Morteza Alviri, the
head of the trade zones ... FULL TEXT
Iran-U.S match in June
Tehran,
(Iran daily) - The national soccer teams of Iran and the U.S. will likely
play in a friendly match at RFK stadium in Washington DC on June 13 (this
news item says RFK stadium in California) ... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT
"Omid" not in good shape - coach
Tehran,
(Iran daily) - "Under present conditions, this team is not going to
reach the olympics," says the German head coach of Iran's under-21
soccer team, aka "Omid". See interview ... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE
TEXT
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This is where you are going [My foreign friend] wanted to know today
why the northern Tehranis did not hire their own thugs to protect their
festivities [against the Ansar Hezbollah], and I guess when we know the
answer to that one, we will see less of the disruptive fury of the Ansar
targeted towards what is apparently a harmless event, but in substance,
an act of resistance.
Laleh Khalili
"Fire
with fire"
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March 17, 1999
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