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Conspiracy
Curzon's last laugh
There's good reason for part of our anti-British 'paranoia'
By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
October 26, 1999
The Iranian
One of the most interesting, bewildering, endearing, frustrating, --
choose your most appropriate descriptive term here -- characteristics of
Iranians is that once they settle in for a good conversation over tea and
sweets, inevitably their thoughts turn to politics, and sooner or later
the topic of the British in Iranian and Persian politics takes center stage...
Yes, Persians constantly talk about the British and their meddling in
the affairs of their poor country, (present writer prominently included!),
but the sad part of it is that the "paranoia" is true. The British
did meddle badly in Persian affairs. They overthrew governments, toppled
dynasties, had prime ministers and other high officials assassinated, replaced,
exiled, set up, etc ... GO
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Outlook
Iran's Former Hanging Judge Now Sides With Reformers
By JOHN F. BURNS
The New York Times
October 23, 1999
QUM, Iran, Oct. 18 Much about Ayatollah Sadegh Khalkhali these days
his simple white smock, his bare feet, his shuffling gait, his concern
for his visitors' well-being -- speaks of an almost penitential gentleness.
Long gone are his days as the chief judge of Iran's revolutionary courts,
when his name was enough to strike terror, his word sufficient to set execution
squads to work with their gallows, their shootings and their stonings.
"Drink your tea; it will get cold; it won't be good for you,"
Ayatollah Khalkhali said, several times, to a visitor who dropped in unannounced
at his home ... FULL
TEXT
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* No girls?
Parham Gharagozlou
writes: I was pleased to see your nice photos of Iranian kids ["Moving
along"]. But I had one thing on my mind: Aren't there any girls
in Iran ? Why did you only take pictures of boys?
Youth make up a major percentage of our people and half of them are
girls. And we should feel responsible toward their future as much as the
boys. This is more important because of the way girls are treated universally
and domestically.
* World citizen
Jian Khodadad writes:
I had the pleasure of viewing Bahieh Khamsi' s photographs of Ecuador
["Red
orange black blue"]. As a 25-year-old, I found myself excited
to see that an Iranian student had spent a year to serve humanity!
Her pictures capture the spirit and the radiance of those that she encountered.
Here is an example of an Iranian who has shown herself to be a world citizen.
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a book that she had written 20 years ago but couldn't get permission to
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-- Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
"Curzon's
last laugh"
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