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Baptized in tears
Googoosh concert or collective rozeh khooni?
By Setareh Sabety-Javid
August 29, 2000
The Iranian
I went to see Googoosh in New York the other night. The concert was
more like a collective roezeh khooni -- a tearful cleansing bash,
sort of like an EST meeting with 12,000 people crying all at once. Except
there we all cried for one thing: Iran.
The music was not good. It never was. She didn't sing many of the old
favorites and her new ones were neither very political nor that catchy.
She looked good and sang well enough. But what was special for us was our
hunger for any little gesture that would take us on a wave to the past
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Minorities
Not kosher
But many Iranian Jews still love Googoosh
By Faryad
August 29, 2000
The Iranian
When we went to the Jewish temple one Saturday, people were talking
about the Googoosh concert. They were angry; they were against the kosher
Persian stores advertising the Googoosh concert on their windows.
"It is a shame to go and see a singer who betrayed her friends,"
someone said. Betray? Friends? I asked my dad what the hell was going on.
And this was the answer I got after we came home. The problem was a little
puppy with white hair >>>
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Unrest Continues in Khoramabad
BBC Persian Service
The governor-general of Lorestan province was attacked today by a group
of demonstrators in Khoramabad. He was attending the funeral of a policeman
killed during the recent calshes there. The reformists have called for
the punishment of those responsible for the unrest, but no serious measure
has been taken in similar cases before. Mohammad Matin examines the issue
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Pressure mounts in Iran after violent crackdown
August 29, 2000, TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) -- Iran's pro-reform student
movement accused the security forces on Tuesday of abetting five days of
Islamic vigilante violence that rocked the western city of Khorramabad,
leaving one policeman dead.
Scores were injured -- about 35 people were hospitalized -- after hardline
gangs armed with knives and clubs broke up a student conference late on
Thursday. They later attacked buses ferrying the participants back to their
campuses across Iran >>>
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Iran moves to spend oil windfall on job creation.
By Mehrdad Balali
TEHRAN, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Iran is rushing to invest billions of dollars
in surplus oil revenue to revive the stagnant economy and address chronic
unemployment, officials said on Monday.
But economists say structural reform, not a big cash infusion, is the
key to sustainable economic recovery >>>
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INS Is Sued Over Delays in Processing Applications
By JOCELYN Y. STEWART
Los Angeles Times
August 29, 2000
SANTA ANA--A class action lawsuit filed in federal court accuses the
Immigration and Naturalization Service of placing thousands of immigrants
at risk of deportation by failing to promptly process their applications
to remain in the United States. The lawsuit was filed Friday on behalf
of the children and spouses of immigrants who have obtained permanent legal
resident status under a 1986 amnesty law >>>
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Boxing ring
Hamshahri: Official denies calling for pushing aside Hezbollahis
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Cherik-haaye Fadaai-ye Khalq: People of Khorramabad rise against
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Googoosh in London
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* Rafsanjani, no (fair) chance
Behzad Djazaeri writes: I think
you are mistaken in your assumptions about Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
["Man
in the shadows"]. I doubt, if by the time of the next presidential
elections in a years time, Rafsanjani can win a fair and free election
against Khatami, given the present images of the candidates in the public
mind...
Now, if he were to stand against somebody like Abdollah Nouri or Mohsen
Kadivar, that might be a different matter, and he might even lose. But
no such chance exists against the candidates of the conservative right
like Ali Akbar Velayati or Ahmad Janati or Rafsanjani >>>
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* Khatami will win again
Bardia Saeedi writes:
I read the first part of the article with great interest. It's an interesting
theory and definitely plausible ["Man
in the shadows"]. However, in the second half of the article,
Mr. Sajjadi claims that Mr. Rafsanjani has some hopes of becoming the next
president of Iran.
Everyone who has visited Iran in the last three years is shocked with
the popular support for Mr. Khatami. His efforts to relax the strict rules
of women's dress cover and other daily behaviors has brought tremendous
support for him.
The economic situation although very harsh, does not seem to affect
people's judgment when comparing Mr. Khatami with the alternatives. If
Iran continues to have free and untainted elections, my guess is that,
Mr. Khatami will definitely win another term in the office.
* Can you dig it?
Cyrus Samii writes:
In regards to ancient Persia being represented in film ["Persia?"],
we can't overlook the overt reference in Walter Hill's cult classic "The
Warriors": New York, the turbulent late 1970s-- disunity and factional
conflict erupts between rival gangs out of the confusion and rage provoked
by the shooting of the ecumenically-minded underworld overlord Cyrus...
"Can you dig it?"
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September at London's Camden People's Theatre >>>
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killed in unrest
TEHRAN,
Aug 29 (AFP) - The governor of northwestern Lorestan province was attacked
by protesters Tuesday during the funeral for a policeman killed during recent
clashes in the province, Iran's official news agency said. Nurollah Abedi
was beaten by a group of demonstrators who surrounded him before police
intervened to take him to safety. There was no word on his condition, and
no arrests were made, it said >>> FULL TEXT
Iran students accuse pro-Khamenei forces
of attacking them in riots
TEHRAN,
Aug 29 (AFP) - Iran's leading pro-reform student group on Tuesday accused
troops under the control of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of attacking
them during the past few days of bloody riots in the town of Khoramabad.
The violence swirling around a meeting of the student Office to Consolidate
Unity (OCU) from Thursday to Sunday left one person dead and dozens injured
in the worst unrest in Iran in more than a year >>> FULL TEXT
Conoco hopeful of improving ties with Libya,
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HOUSTON,
Aug 29 (Reuters) - A senior Conoco Inc. (NYSE:COCa - news) executive said
on Tuesday he was hopeful that a gradual improvement in U.S. relations with
Libya and Iran would lead eventually to a lifting of unilateral U.S. sanctions
that prohibit U.S. investment in both countries' oil industries. Rob McKee,
Conoco's executive vice president for exploration and production, said there
were already signs that relations with Libya had started to thaw since that
country handed over two suspects for trial in the 1988 bombing of a U.S.
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Drought dries out major river
TEHRAN,
August 29 (AFP) - Iran's Zayande river, which cuts through the historical
central city of Isfahan, has virtually dried up because of the unprecedented
drought wracking the nation, press reports said Tuesday. The Zayande, best
known from touristic photographs of it pouring through the arches in Isfahan's
famous Si-o-Sepol bridge, is completely dry except for a few scattered pools
of stagnant water, the reports said >>> FULL TEXT
Norway, Iran Leaders To Meet; First Time
Since Revolution
OSLO
(AP)--Norway's prime minister agreed Monday to meet Iran 's president in
New York next week, the first meeting between the countries' top leaders
since Iran 's 1979 revolution. Norway downgraded its diplomatic relations
with Iran in 1995 to protest a death order against British writer Salman
Rushdie. The previous year, Iran called home its Oslo ambassador to protest
what it called Norway's hostile attitude >>> FULL TEXT
Iran navy launches first domestically produced
submarine
TEHRAN,
Aug 29 (AFP) - Iran on Tuesday launched its first domestically manufactured
submarine at a ceremony in the Persian Gulf port city of Bandar Abbas, the
official IRNA news agency reported. It said Defence Minister Admiral Ali
Shamkhani was among officials on hand for the launch of the Al-Sabehat 15
submarine, which he said was ideally adapted for reconnaissance work and
the laying of mines >>> FULL TEXT
Iran says 3-year energy discoveries worth
$125 bln.
TEHRAN,
Aug 28 (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it had discovered oil and gas reserves
worth $125 billion in the past three years. Iran found 5.34 billion barrels
of crude and liquid gas, 28.7 trillion cubic feet (820 billion cubic metres)
of mainly sweet natural gas during the same period, said Mahmoud Mohaddes,
director of exploration at the National Iranian Oil Company >>>
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Iran tenders South Pars gas field phases
9-12
TEHRAN,
Aug 29 (Reuters) - Iran tendered on Tuesday four new phases of its giant
offshore South Pars gas field project. National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)
issued a statement inviting national and international contractors to take
part in the development of phases nine to 12 of South Pars, Iran's largest
gas field holding seven percent of global reserves >>> FULL TEXT
Oil up as Venezuela, Iran say supply OK
LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices jumped again on Tuesday, adding almost
another dollar a barrel to a runaway market as fears mounted of winter supply
shortages in the West. Dealers took fright at the latest comments from OPEC,
whose president, Ali Rodriguez of Venezuela, blamed high taxation among
consumer nations and refinery bottlenecks for soaring prices >>>
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Makhmalbaf's "Silence" okayed
Tehran,
(Iran daily) -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "Sokout" ("Silence"),
winner of an award from the Venice film festival, has finally gotten permission
to be screened in Iran >>> FULL PEERSIAN TEXT
Cultural activities in past three years
Tehran,
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and >>> FULL PEERSIAN TEXT
Computers in high schools
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Libraries at 500 high schools have been
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Iran: No. 1 in Asian soccer
Tehran
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latest official ranking. South Korea and Saudi Arabia are second and third
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Bayer Leverkusen counts on Mousavi
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Youth Karate: No. 1 in Asia
Tehran
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four gold, two silver and a bronze >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
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Iran's New Submarine
Iran has launched its first domestically-built
submarine in the Persian Gulf. It has been designed to plant mines and carry
out reconnaissance missions. Maria Sarsalari talks to Jane's Defence Weekly
analyst Paul Beaver about this new submarine: >>>
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Some puppy
When one of the Jewish hosts told her not to bring the
dog, Googoosh refused. Turning down Jews for a puppy? That was the end of
it. From then on she was forbidden to sing at Jewish homes.
-- Faryad
"Not
kosher"
The Iranian
August 29, 2000
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