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Iranian of the Year
Shadow of hope
Mohammad Khatami is the people's choice for the second year in
a row
Last month eamils were sent to more than 11,000 people on The
Iranian mailing list asking them to send in their choice as the Iranian
of the Year. For the second year in a row, President Khatami became the
top choice. He received 34 percent of the vote ... GO
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Outlook
Iranian hard-liners shut down new year's festival
March 22, 1999 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Revelers heading to a Persian new
year's festival said they were turned away Monday, apparently because Iranian
hard-liners believe the celebration evokes the country's pre-Islamic past.
Nowruz, or new year, festivities at Takht-e-Jamshid attracted about
3,000 people when they opened Sunday, the start of the new year.
Takht-e-Jamshid, about 640 kilometers (400 miles) south of the capital
Tehran, is the site of ruins from the 6th century capital of Persepolis
... FULL TEXT
Taliban beat people who mark Persian new year
March 21, 1999 , KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban soldiers whipped
several residents of the capital with steel wires Sunday after they defied
a ban on new year's celebrations, witnesses said.
The centuries-old festival, based on the Persian calendar, marks the
end of winter.
It is widely celebrated in neighboring Iran and until last year was
marked also in Afghanistan. However, the Taliban religious army which controls
most of the country banned the festival, saying it violates the tenets
of Islam ... FULL
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Is this HIM? ... FULL
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More Letters
* One more "seen"
Houman M. writes: Here is on
more "seen" for your haft-seen: Satl-e-aashghaal (trash can)
["THE
IRANIAN haft-seen"].
* Where were you in 1979?
Boroumand writes: I would love to
stand up for Kadivar, despite the fact that he is a molla ["Molla or not"].
But where were you and the rest of the Iranian nation as people like my
family were being slandered, and looted, and unjustly tried, and murdered
in and after 1979? Your silence/inactivity (and perhaps even complicity)
at that time is what has emboldened and enabled these people to do what
they are doing now without fear of accountability.
* Iranian Academic Association conference, New York
Dear colleague:
It is a great pleasure to invite you to submit papers for the 4th IAA
(Iranian Academic Association) Annual Conference. The meeting will convene
at the City University of New York, New York City, on September 18-19,
1999. The theme of this scientific gathering has been chosen as: Oil, Petrochemicals,
Energy and the Environment ... DETAILS
HERE
* Noruz: New Year celebrations in Sunnyvale
On Sunday, March 21st, 1999, Bonyad-e-Towhid i proudly presents a festive
celebration of Persian New Year in honoring the ancient Persian heritage
of Noruz in a series of cultural enrichment programs for the Iranian Community
in Northern California's Bay area ... DETAILS
HERE
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Former Beirut hostage sues Iran for $100
Million
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Beirut hostage Terry Anderson filed
a $100 million lawsuit against Iran Monday, accusing it of being responsible
for sponsoring his kidnapping by a militant Islamic group 14 years ago.
Anderson's lawyer, Stuart Newberger, said the suit was filed in the U.S.
District Court in Washington and would be translated into Farsi before being
sent via diplomatic channels to the Iranian government ... FULL TEXT
Iran sharply hikes petrol prices
TEHRAN, March 21 (Reuters) - Prices of petrol and other fuels rose
sharply on the first day of the Iranian New Year on Sunday as part of a
government plan to reduce consumption. The petrol price jumped 75 percent,
from 200 rials to 350 rials (11.7 cents) per litre (53 cents per gallon).
Motorists lined up at petrol stations on Saturday night to fill their tanks
in anticipation of the rise. Prices of other fuels, such as gasoil and kerosene,
also rose considerably ... FULL TEXT
Iran's leaders regret economic woes, hope
for better
TEHRAN, March 21 (Reuters) - Iran's leaders said they regretted
the economic hardships of the past year and hoped for better in the Iranian
new year which started on Sunday. ``The year we left behind was as usual
full of sweet and bitter events. What was bitter for us was the hard economic
conditions of people, price hikes and hardships,'' official media quoted
spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying ... FULL TEXT
Saudis see no trouble from Iranian pilgrims
at Mecca
RIYADH,
March 21 (AFP) - Saudi Arabia said on Sunday it does not expect trouble
from the tens of thousands of Iranians at the annual Moslem pilgrimage to
Mecca that starts this week. "Nothing will happen," said Interior
Minister Prince Nayef ibn Abdel Aziz, quoted in Saudi newspapers. "I
don't think our Iranian brothers will do anything that could endanger the
pilgrimage." ... FULL TEXT
Khatami says to visit Saudi after the Haj-TV
LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammed Khatami
has told Saudi Arabian King Fahd that he planned to visit Saudi Arabia after
the end of the Moslem Haj season, Iranian television reported on Monday.
The report, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation in London,
said the news was conveyed to the Saudi Monarch in a letter from Khatami
delivered by Iran's ambassador to Riyadh ... FULL TEXT
Iran opposition report attack on paramilitary
HQ
LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) - The Iranian opposition group Mujahideen
Khalq said on Monday its members had attacked the headquarters of the paramilitary
Basij forces in Tehran with mortars last week. A Mujahideen statement said
its ``operational units launched a major mortar attack...on Thursday, March
18, against the command headquarters of...Basij in Tehran's Afsarieh district.''
... FULL TEXT
Israeli company in industrial deal with
sworn enemy Iran: report
JERUSALEM,
March 21 (AFP) - An Israeli firm signed contracts for the sale of industrial
material to arch-foe Iran at an international trade fair in Germany last
week, a newspaper here reported on Sunday. Amnon Shoham, managing director
of the Israeli company Gamal, said the deals were signed at the Israeli
pavillion at the Cologne fair, adding that the Iranians believed Tehran
would soon permit direct trade with the Jewish state ... FULL TEXT
Left out: Asia's player of the month
Tehran,
(Hamshahri) - Siroos Dinmohammadi, Asia Player of the Month, has not been
asked to join the national team. Why? ... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT
$ Rate
Updated March 15
The
dollar now offered at 770-792 tomans in the U.S. and 805 tomans in Iran
Source: Sehaty Exchange (U.S.) Tel: 602-595-0777
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Positive drection
His presence has given all of us Iranians around the world a shadow of
a hope that maybe, after 20 years of injustice and corruption, Iran is moving
in a positive direction. I realize times might get harder before we actaully
see any positive effects, but I believe the right steps are being taken.
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March 22, 1999
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