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The Iranian Features
August 21-25, 2000 / Mordad 31-Shahrivar 4, 1379

Today

* Politics: Man in the shadows
* Trade: Nutty tariffs

Recent

* Film: Not THAT good
* Responsibility: Over and over again
* Marriage: Zan gereftan
* Islands: Snake island
* Iran: Maah va man
* Iran: Poignant disorder
* Fiction: The city of two hundred roses
* Cover story: Tastes of paradise
* Eyewitness: Tamaashaachi


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Friday
August 25, 2000

Politics

Man in the shadows
Rafsanjani eyeing the presidency

By Dariush Sajjadi
August 25, 2000
The Iranian

Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's letter to the Majlis to remove the press law amendment from its agenda pitted him against public opinion, as the amendment had huge popular support. He openly confronted the reformists for the first time since President Khatami's election and elicited the wrath of Iranians and world public opinion.

Given that all Majlis bills have to go through the conservative Council of Guardians and, on occasion, the Expediency Council, for final approval, Khamenei's direct intervention was not necessary. But the fact that he has could be interpreted as a measure tactfully orchestrated by the chairman of the Expediency Council, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who is a master of covert diplomacy in Iranian politics >>> GO TO FEATURE

Trade

Nutty tariffs
Iranian pistachio blocked by high tariffs

By Mehdi Ardalan
August 25, 2000
The Iranian

When Madeleine Albright announced a partial lifting of U.S. sanctions on Iran in March, the State Department was not aware of the 300 percent tariff imposed on Iranian pistachios, according to official U.S. sources... September 7 is the U.S. Commerce Department deadline for filing comments about the tariffs. Those interested in the resumption of Iranian pistachio sales in the U.S., including Iranian exporters and American importers as well as American consumer advocates, should join forces and launch a coordinated public relations and legal campaign to end the Californian pistachio monopoly. >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Thursday
August 24, 2000

Film

Not THAT good
Patronizing adoration for Iranian cinema

By Naghmeh Sohrabi
August 24, 2000
The Iranian

My uncle often likes to say with pride that in the old days, during the Shah's time, when Iranians would travel to Paris or London, everywhere they went, people kept asking them "how many oil wells do you own?" In educated, cosmopolitan American circles these days, no one would ask such a question. Instead, what I am often asked as an Iranian-American is "have you seen [enter here name of Iran's newest cinematic export]? What do you think about Iranian cinema? It's so great. It's so unlike Hollywood."

I find the uncritical attention given to Iranian cinema by the Western press patronizing and the adoration showered upon it by Iranians living outside of Iran uncritically patriotic >>> GO TO FEATURE

Responsibility

Over and over again
Never stopped to see where we went wrong

By Najmeh Fakhraie
August 24, 2000
The Iranian

How many times have I heard my mother talk about her days in Golestan School as if it was the best place on earth? How many times have I heard my grandmother talk about all the things they used to do then as if they could not be done anywhere else or any other time ever again? And how they would have given all that up for the promise of a better future is definitely unimaginable. "Better the devil you know than the devil you don't" goes the saying. So if they had heaven right in front of them how did they lose it so easily? What went wrong along the way? What big, unforgivable crime was committed? >>> GO TO FEATURE

Marriage

By dAyi Hamid
August 23, 2000
The Iranian >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Wednesday
August 23, 2000

Islands

Snake island
Great Tonb and the zoological evidence

August 23, 2000
The Iranian

At 06:15 of November 30, 1971, the Iranian marine commandos, the takavaran, stormed the beachhead at the Great Tonb and put an end to sixty-eight years of Anglo-Qassimi usurpation of this island at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. As the gunship IIS Bayandor watched over the operation, the IIS Artemis was busy landing troops on Abu Musa. All the while, the Iranian jets flew overhead. On Tonb, the landing party used a blow horn to say that they had come not to wage war, but to reclaim their land. "We will respect your rights, protect you, and assume responsibility for your progress and development," the announcement said >>> GO TO FEATURE

Iran

By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
August 23, 2000
The Iranian >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Tuesday
August 22, 2000

Iran

Poignant disorder
Iran's infinite risks and possibilities

By Gelareh Asayesh
August 22, 2000
The Iranian

I think of Iran as primitive in a different sense, in the sense of being closer to God, man and nature. Here in Iran, everything is broken pavement, weeds growing in an atmosphere of infinite risk and possibility. Faith and myth are part of the fabric of daily living. Simple people stop in their tracks to pray when the muazzin's call to prayer drifts from the mosques. Sophisticated people believe in miracles. ("Have you heard of the Blind Shaykh?" a beautifully coiffed relative asks a country acquaintance over tea one afternoon. "I hear he can divine where stolen jewelry is hidden.")

Such innocence is rare in the country where I make my home. I must bring my daughter halfway across the world to experience it >>> GO TO FEATURE

Fiction

City of two hundred roses
"This is where you sleep"

By Farnoosh Moshiri
August 22, 2000
The Iranian

Khan-Baba had let one of his rooms to this high school girl -- a girl whose face I never saw. She was alone by her own in the city of Raz. The old couple said she was from the capital, where I was from. She had lost her virginity there. She had taken a lover, as young as she was. Her parents banished her, sent her to Raz to die, to become a prostitute, or to survive. So far she had survived, they said. Good people hoped she would survive the rest. Mean people hoped she would end up on the dirt road of the gas city, the alley of the prostitutes. She used the back door of the house. She went to school until four o'clock and sang the rest of the time >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Monday
August 21, 2000

Cover story

Tastes of paradise
Ode to forgotten flavors

By Laleh Kahlili
August 21, 2000
The Iranian

There are at moments of respite in Iran,when the three jobs most ordinary Iranians have to take to put bread on the table are momentarily forgotten at the end of the work-day (or night), and pleasures of the sense take over. And there are so many simple things upon which the senses can feast. Our voluptuous music seduces and our language dances on the tongue. The cool oceanic tiled surfaces of our public buildings invite the eyes to linger. We love to touch: from the tactile feast that is the bas-relief of Persepolis on silky black stone to the indulgence of vintage "termeh" fabrics handed down from family to family >>> GO TO FEATURE

Eyewitness


What happened in Tehran Saturday?

By Masoud Bahrami
August 19, 2000
The Iranian >>> GO TO FEATURE

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