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Hamadan's Brad Pitt
Iranians aboard have Brad Pitt; we have Haj Abbas
By Loren S.
September 29, 1999
The Iranian
I am a 21-year-old girl who lives In Hamadan and I am student. I check
this page often and I thought from here in Iran I write you about a very
loved character who has made life hell for young people. (By the way sorry
if my English is not good. I have tried hard by going to class to learn
it, but I am not clever enough.)
There is this character called Haj Abbas who is a Basiji in the good
old town of Hamadan. He is every single young girl and boy's nightmare.
I thought I write about this funny character so that Iranians aboard also
know about this Hezbollah brother! ... GO
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them to win an election [Iranian
American Republican Council]? Have they forgotten the atrocities they
commited against elderly immigrants?
Have they forgotten that under their leadership food stamps and welfare
payments to the needy immigrants were discontinued? (meaning single mothers,
childern, and the elderly). Have they forgotten the anti-immigrants hysteria
they helped to create?
We as Iranians who live and raise our family in this country will not
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* Trash should be published
Laleh Khalili writes: I fully agree
with S.
Smith that Cyrus Rafaat ["Real
Iranian girls?"] seems like a rotten leftover of the Stone Age,
and as a woman, I find his opinions so unbelievably stupid, backwards,
disgusting and hypocritical that I cannot take it seriously at all. His
article is nothing but the evidence of an empty-headed blowhard and as
such, I don't bother to dignify his writings with a response.
However, I disagree with you on whether The Iranian should publish
this article or not. Airing one's dirty laundry helps kill the parasitic
bacteria resident therein! By bringing this article to light, The Iranian
does the Iranian-American community a great service: it puts a mirror in
front of it and magnifies the warts that need to be burnt off.
I declare - LOUDLY- that in fact, such trash needs to be published on
occasion, if for no other reason to keep those of us who hope for more
open minds and thoughtful ideas, forever vigilant. We cannot and should
not assume that just because it is 1999, idiotic chauvinists (of whatever
creed and background) are on the wane, even in the United States.
* Protest: Demonstration in DC
Sept 29 (Alliance for Humanr Rights in Iran) -- In solidarity with the
Iranian Student Movement for democracy and in protest against the recent
death sentences issued by the Revolutionary court, the Washington DC Organizing
Committee will hold a demonstration in front of the Iranian Interests Section,
located at 2209 Wisconsin Avenue, NW in Washington DC on Thursday September
30, 1999 from 12-2 PM.
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Iranians aboard have Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt and us Iranian girls just
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-- Loren S.
"Hamadan's
Brad Pitt"
The Iranian
September 29, 1999
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