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Moving along
Youth ignore political upheavals
Photos by C.S.
October 25, 1999
The Iranian
I was in Iran for about three weeks. Initially, I just strolled around
and took photos of whatever. Later, I started to concentrate on photographing
people, especially kids, and ordinary everyday things. This was because
I began to realize that Iranians living abroad forget that most of the
people in Iran are quite young, and that daily life continues there despite
the stream of news about the latest political upheaval which tends to eclipse
everything and warp our perceptions. There actually was no sense of impending
crises. In short: the people and the country are moving along, despite
all the problems ... GO
TO FEATURE
Outlook
 With Iran's Reforms at Stake,
a Moderate Digs In
By JOHN F. BURNS
The New York Times
October 24, 1999
TEHERAN, Iran -- Eight months after winning more votes than any other
candidate in Teheran's municipal elections, Abdullah Nouri, a key figure
in Iran's Islamic reform movement, has been spending much of his time in
recent days closeted with his lawyers.
Together, they have been working on strategies for a trial next week
at which they will attempt to save the newspaper Nouri controls from court-ordered
closure, and Nouri from what could be a lengthy prison term. Beyond that,
they hope, by winning Nouri's acquittal, to protect the reform movement
from a setback that could undermine its prospects of winning crucial parliamentary
elections next February ... FULL
TEXT
Poor man
Howard Stern's double life as stripper-loving shock jock and rock-solid
family man has seemingly come to an end, with Stern and wife Alison announcing
late Friday they are splitting up after 21 years of marriage .. FULL TEXT
More Letters
* We are American
Mohamad Vaezi writes
In respose to the Maryam Hosseini's "American?
Yeah right":
I immigrated to the US 22 years ago. I do love our culture and most
of my friends are Iranian as well. But few years ago I realized that one
reason we feel so isolated and disconnected from the American society was
exactly what you prescribe in your article.
The emptiness you feel inside is not because you're so far away from
your homeland as you say in your article. It is because you don't realize
that this great country you live in is your homeland ... FULL
TEXT
* Cutting edge
G.H. Massiha writes:
I have to congradulate you guys for show casing the cutting edge Iranian
arts [A. Reza Rowhani's "Reconstructing
dreams"] in your web magazine. There are many great Iranian
web sites but you are the best in my Explorer Favorites.
Mr. Rowhani's pictures can make a great postcards.
* Academic: Human rights panel in New
York
Event: Human Rights in Iran; Times: Thursday,October 28,1999,6:00pm;
Place: Theatre Lobby,T Building John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899
Tenth Avenue Between 58th and 59th streets, New York City. ; Speakers:
Ervand Abrahamian: "Tortured Confessions"; Ramin Ahmadi MD: "The
Participation of Physicians in Human Rights abuses in Iran"; Mansour
Farhang:"Human Rights in President Khatami's Eyes"; Haideh Moghissi:
"Feminism and Islamic; George Andreopoulos, Assistant Professor of
Government : Moderator . For more information contact: (212)237-8190 or
email: gandreop@hera.jjay.cuny.edu
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Court prepares landmark case against reformer
TEHRAN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Leading reformist Abdollah Nouri goes
on trial later this week before a panel of hardline clerics in a case that
will help shape Iran's political and religious future ... FULL TEXT
Nouri takes message to hardline heartland
QOM, Iran, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Cleric and leading reformist Abdollah
Nouri on Friday carried his radical doctrine of religious pluralism to this
holy Shi'ite city, spiritual home to Iran's conservative establishment ...
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Court jails cleric over protest letter-
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TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A hardline Iranian court has jailed
an outspoken reformist cleric for one year for signing a petition against
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on Monday ... FULL TEXT
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- papers
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme court has undercut a
bid to release Tehran's maverick moderate former mayor, jailed after a graft
conviction, newspapers reported on Monday ... FULL TEXT
Khatami's Paris visit to build on new image
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will
use his visit to France to build on his country's improving image and speed
up rapprochement with Europe, a foreign ministry official was on Monday
quoted as saying ... FULL TEXT
Britain praises Iran's Khatami, to exchange
visits
KUWAIT, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Britain warmly praised Iran's ``reformist''
President Mohammad Khatami on Monday and said the foreign ministers of the
two states would soon exchange visits for the first time since the 1979
Islamic revolution ... FULL TEXT
Iranian refugee in coma - rights group
October 25, 1999 (International Federation of Iranian Refugees)
-- Ali Bordbar (Case I. 16264), a 54 year old Iranian refugee claimant who
has been in Pakistan since 1996, has been on hunger strike for the past
48 days in protest to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees'
(UNHCR) outright indifference to his fate ... FULL TEXT
Domestic wheat purchase down 2.4 mln tonnes
TEHRAN, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Iran expects its wheat purchases from
local farmers to drop by 2.4 million tonnes this year because of lower production
after a severe drought, an official was quoted as saying on Monday ... FULL
TEXT
Paris honors Majidi
Tehran
(Hamshahri) - Majid Majidi's "Color of Paradise" won the best
film award in a Paris environmental film festival ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Ancient find
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Tehran University archaeologists have unearthed
"columned halls" in Dasht-e Qazvin dating back 3,800 years ...
FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Esteqlal moves up
Tehran (Iran daily) - Esteqlal has pulled itself near the top of
the Azadegan league table, making Persepolis a bit nervious ... FULL TEXT
IN PERSIAN
Gilani women on top
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Gilan has won the team title in the women's
traditional sports games. The event included rope pulling, sprint and targetting
... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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