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Nezami
Life
My life's joy
I have stopped dreaming about my childhood
By Babak Mohammadi
October 7, 1999
The Iranian
You may be asking what is all this mumbo-jumbo Babak is giving us. To
answer this question I have to go back 48 hours to Friday, November 27,
1998. As I just finished my first pint of lager, it occurred to me that
it had been almost a year since I had dreamt of my childhood.
I remember vividly what I dreamed last time. I was playing outside of
our house in Torbat-Heidarieh. I was full of childhood joy. My joy was
immediately shattered as I heard my mother's voice crying my name: "Babak...
Babak... biyaa tu khuneh... biyaa tu khuneh." (Babak, come inside
the house.) ... GO
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Time to reappear
The play that angered religious leaders
October 7, 1999
The Iranian
The following email, containing the translation of a controversial
play that appeared in a student publication in Iran, has been circulating
the Internet. It is being reproduced to keep our readers informed of current
events in Iran. The translator(s) is unknown. The Persian original has
been posted on a number of web sites: ... GO
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* Unromantic view of politics
M. Emadi-Moghadam writes: After
a rather lengthy break from The Iranian, I was able to create the
time and have a good brows through its recent issues. I was not disappointed
to find a collection of diverse and interesting material. But what affected
me most was the note from the young girl from Hamadan about Haj Abbas ["Hamadan's
Brad Pitt"]. I was moved, lifted and saddened by the content of
the note and its description of life when one's most basic rights are so
continuously ignored and infringed upon.
This is not new nor out of norm. The events of recent months at Tehran
University and other higher education institutes and the treatment of students
by the forces of the conservative alliance depict a grim picture. However,
I, like so many of my compatriots, take heart from the resilience and resolve
of the young Iranians who are determined to receive recognition for their
basic rights. This is a new generation of Iranian who does not wish to
march under the banner of this or that political organization in order
to attain a political identity. Nor does this generation have a romantic
view of political activism ... FULL
TEXT
* I long for the day
Shaheen M. Bakhtiar writes:
Fury overwhelms me at such stories ["Hamadan's
Brad Pitt"]. I am a 21- year-old Iranian male living in the U.S.
My uncle forwarded the Haj
Abbas story to me, and frankly I found it quite offensive. I find offence
in my self for being an Iranian, and letting such atrocities go unchallenged
in my country...
I use to get very angry when I listened to the Prince of Iran [Reza
Pahlavi]. I could not understand how this young man with such vitality
could be such a cowered. They destroyed his father, and he makes speeches.
They finally killed Dr. Bakhtiar, and he still makes speeches. We here
stories of grave injustices an carelessness for life, HE STILL MAKES SPEECHES
... FULL
TEXT
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Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Martin Indyck will discuss "Iran
and the United States: prospects for a New Relationship".
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