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Iranian of the year
Mohammad Khatami
Messenger of hope
April 4, 2000
The Iranian
Mohammad Khatami, who had been picked as the Iranian of the year
in the previous two years, received the second highest number of votes
in our latest survey. Nearly 20 percent of the readers of The Iranian
who took part in the survey chose the president as the their favorite personality
of the past year >>>
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Iranian of the year
Student movement
Point of no return
April 4, 2000
The Iranian
The students who took to the streets in July of last year to demand
greater freedoms received the third highest number of votes in our survey.
Nearly 13 percent of the readers of The Iranian who took part in
the survey said they deserved to be recognized as Iranians of the year
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Fifty-One >>>
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Outlook
Suspense in the Final Act as the Drama Nears Its End
in Iran
By Stanley A. Weiss
International Herald Tribune
April 4, 2000
LONDON -- The curtain is about to come down on the Islamic Revolution
in Iran. As with any good drama, the audience can only guess how the play
will end. In fact, the final act is only now being written by the players
themselves.
Act I ran from the 1979 return of the exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
until his death a decade later after his successful revolution to overthrow
the Pahlavi dynasty and establish himself as the Supreme Spiritual Leader
- God's representative on earth. It included summary trials and executions,
the seizure of the U.S. Embassy and holding of 52 Americans hostage for
444 days, and an eight-year war with Iraq costing 500,000 Iranian lives
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Begoo baarikallaa
Soheil Soheily writes:
Please join me in congratulating a fellow Iranian friend of mine, Sanaz
Shahbazi, on winning the Silver medal at the recent 6th World University
Tae Kwon Do Championships in China last weekend. Sanaz is also a U.S. national
and collegiate champion. Congratulations Sanaz! You can email her at sanaz24@hotmail.com
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* No respect
Manouchehr Karimi
writes: Please take me off from your list. I was wrong. I thought this
is a serious site not a junky site filled with garbage, wasting people's
time and money. I am referring to your Extra News "Albright
in Tehran". It was as funny as the administrators of this site.
That's why we have this kind of life, "no respect to others".
Please no more email.
* Come on...
Liane Neshat writes: Good
Heavens! What in the world is wrong with all those who found the Albright
article offensive ["Albright
in Tehran"]? The article was obviously a satirical piece regarding
news articles on U.S. and Iranian relations. I am an American citizen born
and raised here of American parents (descended from those who came not
on the Mayflower, but the next ship out as paying passengers) and I am
still laughing over this article.
I am lost as to why someone would say Americans are naive to deal with
the "oppressive" regime in Iran (Leissner's
words, not mine). What is oppressive about this government? ... Is
Iran more oppressive than China whom the U.S. apparently adores and to
whom Clinton wants to grant permanent "most favored nation" status?
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* Priceless
Laleh writes: The Ahmadabad and Mosaddegh bit was a really nice
touch ["Albright
in Tehran"]. I laughed out loud! Also LOVED Madeleine with hijab!.
And the Islamic Association of Women Skiers! Priceless! Also loved the
geography bits as well as "Jafar is that you?"--- I guess you
had to put those in or some idiot would have raised hell about "prfoessionalism"
of a journalistic outlet like yours (like I remember they did last year!)
Loved it. Very very funny!
* Funniest
H.N. writes: Oh my god. That's one of the funniest things I've
seen in a while ["Albright
in Tehran"]. Thank you so much -- I am having a piss poor day
and needed a laugh.
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reunion Homaiyan will also pay tribute to and honor Gen. Ali M. Khademi,
the founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Iran Air (1962-1978), known
as the father of modern aviation in Iran. For more information pleas call:
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Iran court seeks custody of shooting suspects
TEHRAN,
April 3 (Reuters) - A top Iranian court official called on the secret police
on Monday to hand over suspects held for the shooting of a top reformer,
to prevent possible mistreatment during questioning, Iran's news agency
IRNA said. ``To prevent any conceivable punishment, threats, pressure, or
injury to the accused, it is necessary that they be turned over to the justice
ministry's department in Tehran...so that interrogations are carried out
under the supervision of a judge,'' IRNA quoted department head Abbasali
Alizadeh as saying >>> FULL TEXT
Khatami to visit Japan
TEHRAN,
April 4 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami will visit Japan shortly,
after receiving an official invitation brought by Japan's deputy foreign
minister, the official IRNA news agency reported Tuesday. The visit -- whose
date has yet to be fixed -- was announced at the end of a meeting between
Ryozo Kato and Hassan Rowhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security
Council. >>> FULL TEXT
Iran denies "impeding" Middle
East peace process
TEHRAN,
April 4 (AFP) - Iran does not favour the Middle East peace process, but
has done nothing to thwart it, a top conservative official said here Tuesday.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran does not believe the so-called Middle
East peace process to be effective, but so far has not taken any concrete
steps to impede it," said Hassan Rowhani, Secretary of Iran's highest
security body, the Supreme Security Council, quoted by the official IRNA
news agency >>> FULL TEXT
Iran Jews want spy trial postponed
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's Jewish Society has called for a delay
in the espionage trial of 13 Iranian Jews and has asked that they be freed
on bail to attend religious ceremonies later this month. In a statement
faxed to The Associated Press on Tuesday, the society also demanded the
suspects - whose trial is to begin April 13 in Shiraz, 550 miles south of
the capital, Tehran - be allowed to meet their families and choose their
own lawyers >>> FULL TEXT
Head of Russian college suspended
MOSCOW (AP) - The head of a Russian engineering university has
been suspended following allegations that the school helped Iran develop
missiles by teaching Iranian students, a newspaper said Tuesday. Yuri Savelyev,
the rector of Baltic State Technical University in St. Petersburg, was suspended
by an Education Ministry decree in early March but was still receiving his
pay, the daily Moscow Times reported, citing a ministry spokeswoman >>>
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Russia defends nuclear cooperation with
Iran
MOSCOW,
April 4 (AFP) - Russia insisted Tuesday its nuclear ties with Iran respected
international agreements, and defended Tehran's right to develop its civilian
atomic energy industry, Interfax reported >>> FULL TEXT
Iran says open for U.S. wheat at right
price
CANBERRA,
April 4 (Reuters) - Iranian Agriculture Minister Issa Kalantari said on
Tuesday his country was open to buying U.S. wheat after Washington eased
trade sanctions with Tehran >>> FULL TEXT
Iran's non-oil exports rise 6.1 percent
TEHRAN,
April 4 (AFP) - Iran's non-oil exports for the year to the end of March
rose 6.1 percent over the previous year to 3.1 billion dollars, according
to a communique from the customs authority. Its non-oil imports were worth
13.2 billion dollars, customs said >>> FULL TEXT
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language >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
History of Iranian classical music
Tehran
(Hamshahri) - Officials have taken steps to prevent the destruction of a
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Qavam >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Protection for Qavam family house
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadegan) - An Italian painter and poet who drew many scenes from
desert life in Iran has died at the age of 96 >>> FULL TEXT IN
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Soccer shocker: Iran loses to Bahrain
Iran Sports Press - With video clip: The Iranian National Team
suffered a shock defeat at the hands of Asian minnows Bahrain in Group 2
Asian Cup qualifiers on Tuesday. The Iranian Team, now a shadow of the same
side that performed well in the US friendlies, failed to defeat Bahrain
in a game that football analysts had called a 'formality' for the superior
Iranian football. >>> FULL TEXT
IFF: "This should wake them up"
Iran Sports Press - The Vice President of the Iranian Football
Federation (IFF), Khosrow Khabiri, told IRIB following Iran's humiliating
loss on Tuesday to underdogs Bahrain: "After the game against Syria
I got worried. I told friends that our game against Bahrain would not be
easy." >>> FULL TEXT
Azadegan League to resume April 28
Iran Sports Press - The Azadegan League will resume on April 28
following a 6 week recess due to the Iranian new years. One of the heighlights
of the upcoming games is the match up between Naser Hejazi's Zobahan Esfahan
and Mansour Pourhaydari's Esteghlal >>> FULL TEXT
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Although [the student movement] did not destabilize the government itself,
it drove home the message to ALL government leaders that the staus quo was
not acceptable and change was inevitable. The successful election of a reformist
Majlis demonstrates that the message was heard lound and clear by some of
those leaders.
-- Kourosh Parham
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April 3, 1999
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