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Iran-U.S.
Time to move on
Twenty years after the hostage crisis
By J. Javid
November 4, 1999
The Iranian
Interview with Bruce Laingen, former U.S. charge d'affaires in Iran
who was one of the American diplomats taken hostaage at the American embassy
in Tehran 20 years ago this day. (RealAudio) ... GO TO
FEATURE
Outlook
Analysis: Hollow ring to familiar chants
By regional analyst Tarik Kafala
 November 4, 1999 (BBC) -- The 20th anniversary of
the siege of the United States embassy in Tehran has been marked in familiar
fashion - American flags are being burnt to chants of "death to America".
The demonstrations are familiar, but expressions of hatred towards the
US - "the Great Satan" - will ring hollow to many Iranians looking
forward, not to the past.
This anniversary comes against a background of changing Iranian-American
relations and a struggle in Iran between the conservatives and the reformists.
... FULL
TEXT
Harmless American
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* Thinking small
Duke Beeler
writes: I read some of the articles on your site. America is a great
country and I'll kick anyone's butt for trying to run over my country!
I try to have no hatred towards any man but when your people live in the
past and continue to burn our flags and shout out "Death to American"
it causes nothing but hatred towards your people from Americans.
We just look at Iran as a bunch of ignorant individuals who are jealous
of our country and our life styles and can't handle life as it is. They
are people that live in the past and have nothing to look forward too.
If they would open their eyes and look for a future of good living and
stop blaming the world for their past failures then maybe they would have
a life of opportunity and prosperity to look forward to.
As for the British, yes, we did have a revolution against them and yes,
we did win and break away from Britian but any and all of those hard feelings
have since vanished and are forgotten where as if it were Iran, they would
still be boo-hooing about it! I do feel sorry for the people in Iran because
they do have a real big problem of thinking small.
* Mocking the chador
Isa Tanha writes:
I am writing this letter in regard to your article ["Halloween
1999"]. Apparently, the pictures show some young people dressed
in different costumes at a Halloween party. From what I see in those distorted
pictures, some of the costumes also appear to depict the traditional Iranian
dress -- the chador (veil). If this is the case, I like to express my deepest
disappointment in the attitude of such young compatriots who humiliate
and demean a traditional dress worn by our mothers and great grandmothers
...
Those who wear chador BY CHOICE are not ignorant as some may think.
They know what they are doing. What kind of message are we implying by
mocking them? Such displays are as bad as those who force women to wear
the chador, and those who forcefully prevented them to follow their belief
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TEXT
* Academic: CIRA call for papers
Center For Iranian Research and Analysis (CIRA) is pleased to announce
The 18th Annual CIRA Conference at Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Maryland, USA
April 28-29, 2000 The theme of the conference is IRAN 2000: "The Challenges
Ahead". Submission of papers and proposals for organizing sessions
on all topics related to Iran, the Middle East, and Central Asia are encouraged.
Please send abstracts or proposals before December 15, 1999 to: Dr. Kamran
Dadkhah, Northeastern University, Economics Department Boston, MA 02115
- or - Dr. Mehrdad Vallibeigi, American University Economics Department,
4400 Mass. Ave., Washington DC, 20016. For further information you can
contact Dr. Valibeigi at 703-690-9400, or mvalibeigi@Yahoo.com
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