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Tuesday November 23, 1999 / Azar 2, 1378, No. 854


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Truth & justice
Interview with Arash Forouhar

By Haleh Vaziri
November 23, 1999
The Iranian

Vaziri: Are you saying that Khatami lacks the power to pursue a thorough investigation of your parents' murders?

Forouhar: My parents' murders, the disappearance of other intellectuals -- these are acts against us, against the movement that opposes the Islamic Republic. These acts are not against President Khatami. Whoever did this had my parents' under 24-hour surveillance, because they worried that my father was leading the students and serving as a source of inspiration or as an alternative to the government ...

Whoever killed my parents had planned it for months. They tried to pressure my parents -- to break their souls. But my mother and father believed in what they were doing and would not stop just because of this pressure. These people watched my parents and waited until they were alone to attack them. These people were afraid of my parents ... GO TO FEATURE


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Appeal court upholds death sentences

November 23, (BBC) -- The Iranian appeal court has reportedly upheld death sentences on three alleged ringleaders of the violent unrest which swept Tehran in the summer.

Another alleged instigator of the disturbances is said to have been acquitted on the grounds of insanity.

A revolutionary court had sentenced the four to death in September for their role in two days of riots that followed a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations in July ... FULL TEXT


    Anyway

Lucky

TEHRAN, Nov 23 (AFP) - An Iranian military pilot had a lucky escape Tuesday when his training plane developed a technical fault -- and so did the inhabitants of a south Tehran suburb. The single-engined plane missed the airport at Ghalemorghi, and came down in the middle of an avenue barely wider than the wingspan ... GO TO


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* Strange experience

Yassaman Mottaghipour writes: You can not do this to us! I was sitting here in front of the computer trying to get some work done and then I received The Iranian Times with all th Abadan photos. I could not work after looking at the pictures. I don't think any person who lived there could!

The pictures were so different from the last time I visited Abadan about nine years ago. At the time most places were unrecognizable because of the war damage.

No matter how it looked, the earth and the sky were there and the connection to the past was as present as it could be. I also went to 110 Braim. At the time they were working on the house. When we arrived nobody was there and the door was open. So I walked inside.

The walls had just been painted white. The rooms were all empty. I stood there in the small hallway next to the entrance door. It took me just a few seconds before I could see all the things that used to be there: the paintings, like the one of Persepolis and another one that was my favorite but I can't remember the name.

Needless to say, it was a strange experience being there. Even talking about it now, I can still feel it all.

* What am I?

Gelareh Asayesh writes: Apropos of the census brief in The Iranian Times, I wonder if the magazine can ask a question that surely a lot of Iranians want to know the answer to -- what racial/ethnic category are we?

It seems to me that "Iranian" does not qualify because it encompasses a number of races and ethnicities. If I am not Kurdish or Turkish or Arab, what am I?

There's probably some professor somewhere who knows the answer, but I don't.


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Books of the Week

* Saaniyeh-yeh aakhar (1999)
Y2K issues in Iran
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* Barandeh-haa ham baazandeh-and (1999)
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By Ahmad Nafisi

* Jazireh sargardaani (2nd edition, 1998)
Novel
By Simin Daneshvar

* Mumia va assal (1996)
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By Shahriar Mandanipour

* Mehr-e giaah (1998)
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I hold Khatami responsible for anything that happens to any citizen of Iran, and he has to investigate my parents' murders until the end. Khatami would do this if only he is willing to put his own life in danger. He doesn't have enough power.

-- Arash Forouhar
"Truth & justuce"
The Iranian
November 23, 1999


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