The Iranian Times

Wednesday September 29, 1999 / Mehr 7, 1378, No. 817


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    Nezami


Extremists

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 TO FEATURE


Outlook

The play

Par magazine in Virginia has reprinted the play which has caused such an uproar in Iran. The play, originally published in Mowj, a student publication, allegedly has demeaning references to Imam Mahdi ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

Thanks to D. H.


    Anyway

    Ya Ali

Ali Daei scored a goal against Milan in a game which ended in a valubale tie for Herta Berlin, keeping it on top of Euro league division ... SEE ARTICLE... SEE GOAL

Thanks to Mehrdad Masoudi


More Letters

* Why support Republicans?

Mehdi writes: The Republican Party is an anti-immigrant political organization why do they expect us to help 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 be fooled by their propaganda. Yes, Mr. Rob Sobhani is an Iranian decendant but so what? So is Googoosh, Khatami, the Shah, and Asghar Ghatel! ... FULL TEXT

* 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 have Haj Abbas.

-- Loren S.
"Hamadan's Brad Pitt"
The Iranian
September 29, 1999


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