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Iranians of the year
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Other Iranians of the year
April 11, 2000
The Iranian
Here are all others who received votes in the Iranian of the year survey >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Fifty-Six >>>
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Outlook
The Berlin conference
BBC Persian Service
The three-day "Iran after the Election Conference" took place in Berlin,
Germany, this past weekend (April 7-9) and was organized by the Green Party, a junior
partner in the German government. Sadeq Saba, who attended the conference, gives
a recap of the main points and the disruption caused by protesters during the first
two days >>> LISTEN
HERE
Okaaziyon
I am a naturalized citizen of Sweden with original roots in Pakistan. For the
last 30 years I have been settled in Sweden. By profession, I am a university professor.
I am looking for a well educated Iranian lady upto 45 years of age. Could you please
place this advertisment on a proper place in your magazine?
Thank you,
Imdad Hussain-Shahid
More Letters
Ramin Tabib writes: In 1991,
I watched a play by Reza Abdoh in the Theatre Center of Los Angeles ["Passion
player"]. I had been a fan of Abdoh without having seen any of his plays.
I had been a fan because I had read about his plays and his stage acts filled with
anger, violence and sarcasm: visions that assaulted viewers' senses like machine
guns spraying card board boxes. To me he was the epitome of non-conformist Iranians,
the very end of spectrum where none of us Iranians dare to trespass...
In my opinion, Abdoh was a man who was both immensely talented and exaggeratedly
angry, and he was combining both into a condemnation of both the culture he was born
in and the one he lived in. He would have been an immense influence on others, especially
Iranians abroad, had he lived long enough to deliver his full potential into maturity.
But with his life cut short, he remains a wonder and a lamented figure like Sadeq
Hedayat was, and I think Abdoh was Hedayat re-incarnated >>>
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* Compensation, one way or another
Hamid Boroumand writes: I disagree
with your article on the unconditional release of Iran's assets by the United States,
by virtue of the simple fact that in many instances such an act would trample the
only chance victims of misbehavior of Iran's government might have to be compensated
for damages within a semi-civilized context ["Getting
down to business"].
As an example, for no apparant reason and subject to an arbitrary ruling by a
Revolutionary Court judge in Esfahan in 1979 (Omid Najafabadi, who was subsequently
executed in 1988 for being "corrupt on earth" and a homosexual) my family
had all of its assets -- composed mainly of improved land- our main occupation being
initially farming and subsequently land development on a large scale about the suburbs
of Esfahan -- confiscated and turned over to the Bonyad Mostazafan...
As the Iranian judicial system seems intent on perpetuating this injustice, I
feel that it is well within my rights to seek redress against the Iranian government
and nation in a venue where my rights will be respected and some form of justice
exists. If that venue is the United States, and if Iran's frozen assets are available
to compensate me and my family for those damages, then I and my family should be
given access to that venue and to those assets >>>
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* Feminazi
Cyrus Raafat writes: This
recent letter by Ms.
Banfsheh Zand is just another view by some typically anti-this group or that
group. And I am tirelessly perturbed by people like her who try desperately to make
themselves feel self-righteous and justified in "being disgusted" by the
freely-expressed opinions of others whom she so indignantly condemns and hypersensitively
criticizes with such prejudicial generalization!...
And you better watch out if you disagree with her high-handed opinions for ye
shall be ostracized and terrorized by name-calling and underhanded "generalizations"!
The attempt to say that "there is something inherently negative" in a certain
culture, is in and of it self inherently negative, prejudicial and childish! This
simply is the wannabe-campus feminazi-political correctness which had imposed it's
profundity on the U.S educational system since the 60's!>>>
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Panel: U.S.-Iran youth dialogue, DC
The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Columbia University are
pleased to invite you to the United States and Iran Youth Dialogue, a panel session
involving students and youth from Iran, SAIS, and Columbia on Thursday, April 20,
2000 from 5:30-6 pm in the SAIS Kenney Auditorium at 1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,
Washington DC. The panel discussion will cover the nascent civil society in Iran
and the forces behind its evolution >>>
DETAILS HERE
Books & Music from Iran
Check our fourteen new books from Iran including an authoritative history of the
Achamenid empire, writings by leading reformists, Forough Farrokhzad's complete works,
exquisite books of classical poetry with miniatures, Manichaean psalms and more!
>>> GO HERE
New music albums
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barg * Eyvazi, Mohammad Reza. : Rangin
kamaan * Banan.: Shaakh-e
gol (2) * Ta'rif, Sadiq: Maah
baanoo * Lachini, Fariborz: Paaeez-e
talaaee ... >>>
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Parliament passes tough press measures
TEHRAN,
April 11 (AFP) - Iran's outgoing conservative parliament on Tuesday approved parts
of a tough new press law whose first reading last year helped spark student protests
that erupted into six days of bloody riots. The parliament, which will step down
in a few weeks to make way for a reform-dominated legislature that won in February's
elections, is to debate the remaining points in the bill on Wednesday >>>
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Iran claims to have boarded ten more Iraqi oil
tankers
TEHRAN,
April 11 (AFP) - Iran has boarded ten oil tankers smuggling Iraqi oil through the
Gulf in the past two days, the official news agency IRNA reported Tuesday, quoting
a senior Revolutionary Guards naval officer. Issa Golverdi, head of the Guards naval
base at Bandar Abbas, in southern Iran, said the ten tankers, flying various flags,
had been seized Monday and Tuesday with a total of 45,000 tons of oil from Iraq >>>
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Trial of Iranian Jews may be held in camera:
court official
TEHRAN,
April 11 (AFP) - The trial of 13 Iranian Jews on charges of espionage and acting
against Iranian security interests, scheduled to start later this week, may not be
open to the public, a court official told AFP Tuesday. "Generally, everywhere
in the world, trials dealing with security questions are not heard in public, and
our country is no different," said Hossein Gholi Amir, chairman of the Fars
province law courts >>> FULL TEXT
Parliament gives Tehran city hall only limited
control over police
TEHRAN,
April 11 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-dominated parliament Tuesday backed the army
against the pro-reformist municipality in their dispute with the army over who should
control the capital's police force. The parliament stripped a government bill which
would have put the police under the authority of city mayor Morteza Alvira of most
of its measures >>> FULL TEXT
Watch out for Iran Liquified Natural Gas, says
Total
MUSCAT,
April 11 (AFP) - Iran has plans to expand its exports of natural gas in a big way,
a senior oil company official said Tuesday, urging its Arab neighbours and potential
market rivals not to miss the boat. "You had better speed up before Iran starts
up" with exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), Patrick de Genevraye of TotalFina
Elf told delegates at an energy conference in the Omani capital >>> FULL
TEXT
Authors in New York
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadegan) - Iranian authors discuss post-revolutionary literature at New York
University >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Afkhami defends his film
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadegan) - Nurses are upset about how they are portrayed in Behrouz Afkhami's
latest film, "Shokaran". Afkhami says the film has nothing to do with the
medical profession >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN \
Remembering Fardin
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadegan) - "People never forgot the artists who were set aside"
>>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Iran 1 - Syria 1
Iran Sports Press - With video clip: The Iranian National Team managed a
1-1 draw against Syria in their Asian Cup qualifier match in Azadi Stadium. The Iranian
team began the game on an upbeat mode and dominated the first fifteen minutes of
the first half. However, it was Syria that took the lead in minute 15 >>>
FULL TEXT
Khodaa ro shokr!
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) - Thank God we didn't lose to Syria. Now we have to play the Maldives.
But don't expect a lot of goals >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Parvin upbeat
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) - Ali Parvin is thrilled that he will have all his top players in
the upcoming match in Saudi Arabia >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
BBC
Press law
The Iranian Parliament
today, April 11 2000, began discussion on the controversial press law promoted by
the conservatives and criticised by the reformists as a political move to restrict
press freedom. Behrouz Parsa talks to Ahmad Zaidabadi, a Tehran journalist about
the implications of this law >>> LISTEN HERE
BBC Persian
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For his own good
Ayatollah Khamenei [is the Iranian of the year] because his curiousity, wise realization,
and timely intervention against the excesses of the hardliners since last summer
allowed for the reform movement to blossom. After all, the tree of freedom also casts
a shadow of peace under which he too can rest. Were he had acted otherwise, blood
would have replaced the ballot.
-- Guive Mirfendereski
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