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Ripple effects of Iranian diplomacy
The view from Washington
By Alidad Mafinezam
May 26, 1999
The Iranian
The vast majority of Arab countries have rejoiced at the thought of
putting their troubled past with Iran behind them, welcoming the chance
to work with Iran for their mutual benefit and greater unity in the Muslim
world. But looking at these events from Washington -- where the Washington
Post managed to all but ignore the trip -- a more complex picture emerges
with U.S.-Iran relations at its core. ... GO
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Outlook
Iran's reformist president dogged by economic failure
TEHRAN, May 22 (AFP) - As reformist President Mohammad Khatami celebrates
the second anniversary of his election Sunday, the huge problems bogging
down Iran's economy remain unresolved -- a currency in free fall, high
inflation and almost 100 percent dependence on oil.
Khatami, a religious scholar, is no scholar when it comes to figures,
and it shows. Nearly half way through his term, he has still not managed
to come up with a clear economic policy ... FULL
TEXT
Marg bar Amrika
May 26, (IRNA) -- The Iranian national BASEBALL team will take part
in Asian baseball championships in New Delhi ... FULL
IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
More Letters
* Can't blame people
A. Boustani writes: I should congratulate you for the story that you
have written ["I
must be a Jew"]. Unfortunately, people from time to time get carried
away and confuse the issue of politics and blame their international problems
on religion or religious differences.
After living outside Iran for more than 15 years in five different countries,
I've come to the realization that people's logic works the same way all
over the world. The difference is mainly around the type of input given
to them ... FULL
TEXT
* Must love Iran first
B.M. writes: Let's put aside religion for one minute ["I must be a
Jew"]. An answer to your question could be that every time the
country is going through hard times, Jews or Bahais don't help at all.
In the Iran-Iraq war not one jew was killed. I think the living condition
of Jews in Iran is not bad. If they left it was not because of thier JAAN,
but it was because of thier MAAL...
If Bahais and Jews want to be accepted by Iranians and Iran they must
first love Iran, not their religion. If they do this there might be a chance
and this will take a long time ... FULL
TEXT
* Turned off
F. BozorgMehr writes: I took offense to the whole tone of your piece
["I
must be a Jew"]: does anything positive come of "And you're
a STUPID, HATEFUL IDIOT! " or comments like "'Hitler should have
finished them all off taa az daste een joohoodaa raahat meeshodeem.'".
LANGUAGE SUCH AS THIS SERVES NO PURPOSE. If you want to start a thoughtful
dialogue, that's one thing but your language offended and turned me off
... FULL
TEXT
* Fellowship: Travel fellowship for
researchers from Iran
The International Association for the Study of Persian-speaking Societies
is pleased to announce the continuation of our Travel Fellowship Program
by a grant from the Open Society Institute through 1999. Travel Fellowships
are available for scholars and researchers from Iran to take part in academic
and cultural conferences and conventions in the United States ... DETAILS HERE
Book of the Week
Home, Exile, Homeland
Film, Media, and the Politics of Place
Edited by Hamid Naficy
Global changes in capital, power, technology, and the media have caused
massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories
and globalized contexts. Ranging from intensely personal to highly theoretical,
the contributors explore our complex negotiation of "home" and
"homeland" in a postmodern world ... GO TO BOOK
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Conservative reappointed head of Iranian
state radio, television
TEHRAN,
May 26 (AFP) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday
reappointed the conservative head of state radio and television to another
five-year term and called for renewed commitment to the ideological struggle.
Ali Larijani, 43, who served as minister of culture and Islamic guidance
from 1992 to 1994, was reappointed as director of Islamic Republic of Iran
Broadcasting (IRIB), the official IRNA news agency said ... FULL TEXT
Protestors attacked, several arrested
May
26, (Alliance for Defense of Human Rights in Iran) - News reports from Iran
indicate that several students, including a student leader, Mr. Manouchehr
Mohammadi Secretary General of the National Association of Iranian Students
and Alumni, have been kidnapped from Tehran University. Their whereabouts
are unknown ... FULL TEXT
Khatami urges clergy to take "present-day
realities" into account
TEHRAN,
May 26 (AFP) - Iran's reformist President Mohammad Khatami has urged members
of the Shiite Moslem clergy to take "present-day realities" and
the needs of the country's youth into account, the official IRNA news agency
reported Wednesday ... FULL TEXT
Guards Corps commander says country should
not change its policies
May
21 (IRNA-BBC) - Lt-Gen Seyyed Yahya Rahim-Safavi, commander of the Islamic
Revolution Guards Corps, has said that there was there "no need"
for the country to change its policies, given that the USA continued to
maintain its efforts to undermine national unity ... FULL TEXT
Ex-defence minister to run Iran oil company
DUBAI, May 26 (Reuters) - A former Iranian defence minister will
soon be named managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)
to transform the state concern into a more competitive global player, a
company official said on Wednesday. The NIOC official told Reuters Iranian
Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh would soon appoint Mohammad Forouzandeh as the
first NIOC managing director in 14 years who is not the oil minister ...
FULL TEXT
Iran "close to Caspian pipeline deal"
LONDON, May 26 (Reuters) - Iran is close to securing a deal with
a Chinese consortium of oil companies for construction of a $347 million
Caspian Sea oil pipeline through northern Iran, a senior Iranian oil official
said on Wednesday ... FULL TEXT
Students protest against exam questions
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- Hundreds of boy and girl students took to the streets in
Tehran to protest against what they called ridiculously difficult questions
in an 11th grade physics exam... FULL IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
Heshmat Mohajerani's return from exile?
Tehran (Iran daily) -- Heshmat Mohajerani, Iran's head coach in
the 1978 World Cup, has reached an agreement to take over as the technical
manager of Esteqlal club. Mohajerani has been coaching Arab teams for much
of the past 20 years ... FULL IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
Iran "best Asian team"
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Iran was Asia's best team in 1998, according to the Asian
Football Federation. Ali Daei and Mehdi Mahdavi-Kia have also been selected
in the All-Asia team ... FULL IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
Asian wrestling games begin
Tehran
(IRNA) -- Iran's free-style wrestlers have had 16 wins and four defeats
in the first two days of the Asian championships ... FULL IMAGE TEXT IN
PERSIAN
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Updated May 26
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Asleep
[President Khatami's government has been] active in the cultural and
political fields, and asleep as far as the economic sector is concerned.
Mohammad Reza Bahonar, an opposition leader in the the Majlis
"Iran's
reformist president dogged by economic failure"
AFP
May 22, 1999
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