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Women
Second class
The legal status of Iranian women
By Mehrangiz Kar
April 18, 2000
The Iranian
In many ways, the Iranian revolution has brought to the fore the discrepancy
between reality and mental perceptions. But in no other respect has the
inconsistency been more apparent than in the private and social lives of
women ...
As will be pointed out below, because of the revolution, women have
gained greater influence and power to the extent that religious leaders
have been persuaded to legitimize female participation in social and political
processes. Yet because of the attitude that dominates the legislative circles
and preserves the laws based on gender discrimination, women have continued
to be treated as second class citizens. >>>
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Immigration
Green Card violations
How you could lose your U.S. residency
By John Manley
April 18, 2000
The Iranian
The re-entry permit in the U.S. is often known simply as the White Passport.
A common scenario for its use could include an Iranian Green Card holder
who wants to go back to Iran for a period of time. This person typically
obtains the re-entry permit and leaves the country for a year or two.
I have noticed these people often leave under the assumption that the
re-entry permit will grant them entry back into the United States. In most
cases it does. However, the permit does not prevent the Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS) from inquiring into whether the Green Card
holder has abandoned his permanent residency.>>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Sixty-Two >>>
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Outlook
Reply to Sepah: Wishful thinking
April 19, 2000, (Asr-e Azadegan) -- A leading reformist group has replied
to the Revolutionary Guards' letter which threatened pro-reform leaders
and writers >>>
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Thanks to Payman Arabshahi
Reporter Says CIA History Was Written by Coup's Planner
Charlie Rose Show, PBS
April 17, 2000
CHARLIE ROSE: It has taken almost a half century to uncover to the details
of the CIA's role in the 1953 coup in Iran. That coup empowered the late
Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi and overthrew the popular nationalist prime
minister, Mohammed Mossadegh... Joining me to talk about this, James Risen.
He is the New York Times reporter who obtained a copy of the agency's secret
history of the coup in Iran. >>>
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Thanks to Reza
Volek bereed kenaar!
A khoroos from Abadan got into a fight with a khoroos-e mahalee. All
of a sudden khoroos-e mahalee jumped on the khoroos-e Abadani and beat
him up so bad that he lost all his feathers
The other khoroos who were watching the fight, went to the khoross-e
Abadani and asked him why he could not beat up the khoroos-e mahalee? khoroos-e
Abadani replied, "Volek bereed oonvar. mo taazeh lokht shodom!"
Thanks to Ben Bagheri
More Letters
* We HAVE changed
Laleh Khalili writes:
In the introduction to Shadafarin Ghadirian's photographs ["Present
in the past"] you wrote: "We live in the 21st century. But
in some ways, Iranian society has not progressed for centuries. Many of
our habits and beliefs have not caught up with the times. This is the immediate
impression from Shadafarin Ghadirian photographs... "
But I DISAGREE! Her photographs show that we HAVE changed. Not that
we have stayed still. Look at the canned soda, or the guitar or the boombox,
but also look beyond that, to the insolent poses of these women. They may
appear "traditional", but I think Ghadirian means for us to see
that a category such as "traditional" has little meaning. And
whose standard of "progress" or "traditional" are we
using anway?
Anyway, thanks for posting these. They are wonderful.
* Doesn't matter what women wear
Dr Fereidoun Abbasi
writes: The way the hejab is demonstrated in Shadafarin Ghadirian's
pictures ["Present
in the past"] has nothing to do with the social development of
Iranian women. After all, women's liberation in the West has had its own
drastic downside for family life, upbringing of children, etc.
In other words, fashion and clothes have got nothing to do with women's
social development nor with freedom of speech, individual liberty, ethics
and unity of family life.
What is important is not what freedom we would like to exercise but
what freedom some person may need in order to do things beneficial to the
society.
* Mistreatment in U.S.
Mali Evans
writes: Please let The Iranian readers know, that Iranian National
Fencing team had arrived in Chicago last week for a tournament that is
currently taking place in South Bend, Indiana. Unfortunately, upon arrival
at the airport, the team was subjected to finger printing.
The representative of the government of Iran made the decision for the
team to go back to Iran rather than being subjected to this kind of treatment.
News here
On the one hand, Ms. Albright talks about friendship and laments over
the role of U.S. in our history and on the other, the U.S. is still putting
our people through this demeaning treatment.
It is a great loss for our young athletes not to be able to participate
in international tournaments. It is the participation and being involved
in this type of competitions that will help our athletes achieve their
full potential.
With much sadness and anger...
Seminar: Democratization in Iran and
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TEHRAN,
April 18 (AFP) - Iran's factional struggle took a new turn Tuesday, as an
outgoing conservative deputy accused reformist President Mohammad Khatami
of helping the enemies of the regime by his "vague rhetoric."
"The enemies of revolution are profiting from the president's vague
rhetoric and they slander the fundamental values of the Islamic republic,"
Tehran MP Ali Movahedi-Savoji told parliament at the opening of Tuesday's
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TEHRAN,
April 18 (AFP) - Hundreds of hard-liners gathered on Tuesday at the University
of Tehran to protest against the reforms initiated by Iran's President Mohammad
Khatami. The protestors, whose numbers were estimated by reporters at the
scene to be around 1,500, gathered at the entrance to the university in
central Tehran to demand that "the advocates of American-style reforms
be brought to justice." >>> FULL TEXT
Executions decline worldwide, except in
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April 17, (BBC) -- More than 1,800 people were executed in 31 countries
around the world last year - more than half of them in China, according
to Amnesty International. The human rights group says the total number fell
compared with 1998, when it was just over 2,200, but the United States,
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TEHRAN,
April 18 (AFP) - Protestors unhappy at the overturning of election results
blocked traffic on a major highway in southern Iran's Fars province Tuesday,
the official IRNA news agency reported. "Traffic has been completely
blocked on the Shiraz-Bandar Abbas highway making travel to the southern
regions of Fars province impossible," said Hadi Pajuhesh, deputy provincial
governor in charge of security affairs, cited by IRNA >>> FULL
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Iran claims confession of suspect
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The main suspect in the attempted assassination
of a leading Iranian reformist has confessed to his crime, the Islamic Republic
News Agency reported Tuesday. ``I talked to the accused myself and he explicitly
confessed to having committed the crime and said he would repeat his confession
in court,'' the agency quoted deputy head of the judiciary, Hadi Marvi,
as saying >>> FULL TEXT
Suspected attacker of reformist "escaped
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TEHRAN,
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reformist politician fled to Pakistan three days later aboard an airliner
which mysteriously diverted to Karachi from an internal flight, the government
newspaper Iran reported Tuesday. The daily quoted an unidentified member
of parliament as saying that "the person who got off at Karachi was
called Qassemi and had an active role in the attack" on Said Hajarian
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Saudi Arabia plans security cooperation
accord with Iran
RIYADH,
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accord between the two major powers of the Persian Gulf, the official SPA
news agency reported Tuesday. The Saudi cabinet, in its weekly meeting chaired
by King Fahd, put Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz in charge
of contacts with Tehran "on a plan for a security cooperation accord
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relations between Iran and the United States were inevitable, in an unprecedented
front page commentary. The English-language Iran News, which is much read
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Iran denounces U.S. attempt to fingerprint
fencers
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran Tuesday denounced the United States for
seeking to fingerprint visiting Iranian fencers, a move which prompted the
athletes to pull out of a tournament in the United States. But the United
States said the fencers knew in advance they would have to give fingerprints
and said a request for a waiver was received but too late >>> FULL
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Sluggish economy spurs an Iranian brain
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TEHRAN When Ali Kermani picks up his diploma later this
year, the 22-year-old engineering student at Tehran University will begin
what has become a rite of passage for Iran's young and educated: flight
from their homeland. Along with thousands of other Iranian graduates, Kermani
will line up outside foreign embassies in the hope of nabbing a work visa.
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has accepted an invitation by the United Nations agency, International Fund
for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to produce a documentary on the efforts
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Majid's Tales in Dutch
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Fencing Team: "Our pride is worth
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Iran Sports Press - With video clip: The Iranian Junior Fencing
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refusing to demands by US Immigrations officials to be finger printed at
Chicago Airport. The Iranian team arrived to a warm welcome by members of
the Iranian Fencing Federation and Iranian Olympic Committee >>>
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Press law
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controversial ammendment to the press law. Reformists have attacked the
bill passed by the conservative dominated Parliament as restrictive and
in violation of press freedom. Sadeq Saba looks at the new bill.
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Women
I see a new stage in the social life of Iranian women unfolding before
our eyes, a stage closely linked with the totality of the political life
of the country. At this stage where the political survival of the country
is threatened by political superstitions and taboos concealed in such disguises
as the "Western political onslaught," the social life of our women
is the most accessible symbol that provokes the opponents of the principle
of freedom to attack it as the epitome of the enemy of the revolution and
Islam.
-- Mehrangiz Kar
"Second
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April 18, 2000
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