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Darband lets you get away from it all
Photos by Nader Davoodi
August 10, 2000
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Darband too
A different angle
Photos by Ali Khaligh
August 10, 2000
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Singers
by dAydi Hamid
August 10, 2000
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Outlook
Dilemma after the crackdown
BBC Persian Service
The new crackdown on the press followed by the arrest of a number of
the country's prominent journalists has been a major blow to the reforms
in Iran. The BBC's Middle East analyst, Roger Hardy, looks into the ensuing
dilemma for reformists >>>
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Iran Assembly Pushes on Women's Rights
The News York Times
TEHRAN, Aug. 9 -- Iran's reformist Parliament, fresh from a slap by
the country's supreme leader, who ordered it to drop a bill for press reform,
showed its determination today to forge ahead with social change and grant
women additional rights by raising the marriage age >>>
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Billionaire Boys Club Defendant Pleads Guilty
By Matthew B. Stannard
The San Francisco Chronicle
August 5, 2000
San Mateo -- One of the most notorious and expensive murder cases ever
tried in San Mateo County quietly closed another chapter yesterday, as
Arben Dosti pleaded guilty to manslaughter and kidnapping for his part
in the 1984 Billionaire Boys Club murder case >>>
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Seeing is believing
By Philip French
The Observer, London
August 8, 2000
FROM OEDIPUS REX through King Lear to the present, blindness has been
among the most potent of dramatic metaphors. From its early days, the cinema
has featured blind characters, usually - though not always - presented
as people of serene temperament and superior virtue...
This is all by way of preface to yet another remarkable film from Iran,
the 40-year-old Majid Majidi's The Colour of Paradise , a major contribution
to the cinema of blindness and one of the most moving experiences I've
had in the cinema this past couple of years >>>
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Family stuff
Guadalajara, Mexico, July 28, 2000: First ever picture of all my mom's
children together on her 70th birthday. >>>
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More Letters
* Persians in China
Frank Wong writes:
This is a wonderful website. I enjoyed reading it. There is no mention
of Persian Zoroastrian immigrants to China. I am Chinese from China. My
family lives in Xuajiulan county, about 28 miles west of Xian (formerly
Chang'an) city. Chang'an was the capital of many Chinese dynasties in the
past. Many foreigners once lived there, especially from Iran. Some came
as merchants, entertainers and religious missionaries >>>
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* Your wisdom
Nasrin writes to Fereydoun Hoveyda: I rarely have the chance
to read The Iranian Times due to my very busy schedule at work.
This morning I got tempted! Your article ["Still
an optimist"] was a joy to read.
I wish that you could inject a little of your wisdom and ability into
the minds of others like my father and others who refuse to understand
and adapt/adjust.
It would be wonderful if you could translate and publish your article
in Farsi, especially in NY and LA Persian papers or even appear on TV or
radio.
* Touched their lives
Bob Danielzadeh
writes: I read the article by Ms. Termeh Rassi and must say that I
truely agree with her ["Like Holding my pillow"]. I too went
a long way to see Googoosh in Toronto from San Jose, California, and my
friends and family were also in total astonishment of why I would do such
a thing.
Surrounding me were people holding cellular phones for their friends
and loved ones at home. Every song bringing back memories and every song
causing someone to break down and cry. remembering, forgiving, forgeting,
but mostly reliving a piece of their history that touched their lives >>>
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Film: "Dance of Dust" at California
film fest
Iranian film at the 14th Wine Country Film Festival: "Dance of
Dust" is an evocative study of the unbelievable harsh life of Llia
- a boy living in a desolate rural backwater. Llia is haunted by mysterious
whisperings calling him to other realms. His attraction to Limua, the daughter
of a seasonal worker, becomes his reason to endure. A simple, poetic, deeply
moving masterwork. Director/Screenwriter: Abolfazl Jalili. Sunday 8/13.
3:00 PM, The Roxy Stadium 14, 85 Santa Rosa Ave., Santa Rosa, CA >>> DETAILS HERE
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
This burning in my chest comes of following her sect.
From her I caught the fever, now I'm sick.
I'll follow doctor's orders, in all respects but this:
I won't forego my wine or her sweet lips.
-- Rumi
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Behnoud held as crackdown goes on
TEHRAN, Aug 9 (AFP) - Iran's supreme court approved a two and a
half-year prison term Wednesday for reformist journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin,
a judicial official said. Meanwhile the press court issued a warrant for
Masud Behnud, a liberal writer close to President Mohammad Khatami, saying
he would be arrested if he does not appear in court by Saturday >>>
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Arafat asks Iran for Islamic Meeting on
Jerusalem
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat urged Iran
on Thursday to convene the Organization of the Islamic Conference to help
shape the outlines of a future Palestinian state. Members of Arafat's delegation
and Iranian officials said he arrived for a brief visit to ask President
Mohammad Khatami, who chairs the OIC, to put the matter before member states
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Iran releases Iraqi POWs and says Baghdad
should settle prisoner question
TEHRAN,
Aug 10 (AFP) - Iran on Thursday released a first batch of a total of 728
Iraqi POWs that Tehran says are the last such prisoners held here since
the neighbours' 1980-1988 war, state radio reported. It said 357 Iraqis
were released earlier in the day while another 371 are expected to be freed
later Thursday in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah on the border
with Iraq >>> FULL TEXT
IRIB files court complaint against the
Interior Ministry
TEHRAN,
Aug 10 (AFP) - Iran's conservative-run state broadcast company has filed
a court complaint against the interior ministry in the latest squabble here
over the press, a newspaper reported Thursday. Islamic Republic of Iran
Broadcasting (IRIB) lodged the complaint after the ministry criticised its
coverage of what it called an "illegal" rally in support of curbs
on the press, the Jam-e-Jam paper said >>> FULL TEXT
Jurists under fire worldwide, report says
Aug 10 2000, GENEVA (Reuters) - More than 400 judges and lawyers
in nearly 50 countries suffered reprisals last year, including death, kidnappings
and arrests, an international human rights monitoring group said Friday.
Lawyers face ``persistent harassment, including through detention and unreasonable
government regulation of their activities'' in Belarus, Egypt, Tunisia,
Sudan, Azerbaijan and Iran, according to the report >>> FULL TEXT
Tehran home to 25,000 street children:
MP
TEHRAN,
Aug 10 (AFP) - Twenty-five thousand child squatters, most of them girls,
live on the streets of Tehran, where growing drug use and prostitution are
leading to a social crisis, a member of the Iranian parliament said Wednesday.
"Social ills such as (drug) addition and runaway girls will someday
plague us all," MP Shahrbanu Amani told a conference of provincial
social welfare officials, as quoted by the IRNA state news agency >>>
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Supreme leader blasts foreign media, praises
the people
TEHRAN,
Aug 10 (AFP) - The supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei blasted the foreign
media following his personal decree banning the new reformist parliament
from debating a motion to ease curbs on the press. "Any moves aimed
at satisfying Iran's enemies are faced with certain failure," Khamenei
said in a statement carried by the official IRNA news agency late Wednesday
>>> FULL TEXT
Venezuelan president arrives in Tehran
TEHRAN,
Aug 10 (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Tehran late Wednesday
on the fifth leg of a tour to prepare for a September OPEC summit in Caracas,
the official IRNA news agency reported. He was welcomed at the airport by
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh, the agency said >>>
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Experimental film wins award
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Farshad Fereshteh Hekmat's "Posht-e
parchin-e aasemaan" has won the best film award at an experimental
film fest in Italy >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Kimiaie: Not indifferent
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Masoud Kimiaie's latest film "Eteraaz"
(Protest) is a reflection of Iran's current social issues, writes a viewer.
"This is not a neutral or indifferent film." >>> FULL
PERSIAN TEXT
Jamalzadeh: New editions
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- When the father of modern Persian prose Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh
died two years ago, the rights to all his books was handed over to Tehran
University, according to his will. Under the supervision of Ali Dehbashi,
new editions of Jamalzadeh's works are being published >>> FULL
PERSIAN TEXT
Esteqlal on a roll
TABRIZ, August 10 (Iran Sports Press) -- With video: Farhad Majidi's
hat trick gave Esteghlal a 3-1 win over Traktorsazi Tabriz on Thursday in
the second week of the 20th Azadegan League. Majidi, who rejoined Esteghlal
this season, managed to equal teammate Ali Samereh as the League's top scorers
to date, each with three goals >>> FULL TEXT
Karimi: Play and see
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- Ali Karimi will play for Italy's Perugia FC for two weeks
to see how well he does. The Italians like him >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
National team (slowly) getting ready
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- The Asian championship matches will beging in two months
but the Iranian national soccer team has not yet >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
BBC
Assault on the press
The banning of more than twenty reformist
publications and the jailing of a number of prominent journalists in Iran
has stirred concern among international human right watchers and writers
guilds. In this report Saeed Yekta has talked with their represenntatives
>>>
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Tell-tale sign
In my village, they found a 9th century A.D. tombstone
of the daughter of a Chinese general. She is a descendant of the noble Persian
Garen family clan and her tombstone has bilingual inscriptions on it (presumably
ancient Persian). The village next to ours is entitled "Xi Wang Chuan."
This means "village of a western king." The villagers look Chinese,
but many have pretty big noses.
-- Frank Wong
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