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Forget Martha's Vineyard
I'm going to Iran
By Genevieve Poucel
August 30, 2000
The Iranian
I imagined Americans were heading to Martha's Vineyard this summer,
while I chose a different adventure... I joined the small number of European
and American women who ventured into IRAN and abided daily by one single
rule: Hair and body must be covered with fabric when stepping outside of
the house.
I've traveled in my life, and prepared for trips before, but really
nothing emotionally or physically prepared me for what awaited me in Iran.
Here are some of my thoughts in retrospect >>>
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August 30, 2000
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Outlook
Iran 's reformers scramble to contain student anger
By Jonathan Lyons
TEHRAN, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Iran 's mainstream reformers scrambled on
Wednesday to head off rising anger on university campuses, following five
days of Islamic vigilante violence against the student movement.
Pro-reform MPs from the Islamic Iran Participation Front, led by the
brother of President Mohammad Khatami, denounced attacks by hardline gangs,
backed by elements of the security forces, on a big student gathering in
the western city of Khorramabad >>>
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Violence flares as students clash with Islamic vigilantes
By Guy Dinmore in Tehran
Financial Times
August 30, 2000
Clashes erupted on Tuesday at the funeral of a policeman in Iran's western
town of Khorramabad, raising fears among supporters of Mohammad Khatami,
the weakened, pro-reform president, that the worsening political crisis
in the capital risks plunging the country into violence.
Khorramabad has been the scene of violent clashes between Islamist vigilantes
known as Ansar-e-Hezbollah and radical supporters of the president since
last Thursday when Iran's main, pro-reform student group, the Office to
Foster Unity, tried to hold its annual national convention there. >>> FULL
TEXT
Shakespeare in Iran
By Geneive Abdo
International Herald Tribune
August 25, 2000
Shakespeare wouldn't recognize it. Romeo is a heartthrob from the Iranian
cinema; Juliet appears on stage with a veil covering her real hair and
a braid dangling down her back.
West meets East every evening at the Vahdat opera hall here, when some
900 Iranians come out to see "Romeo and Juliet," satisfying what
the director Ali Rafii calls "their real need for love." Few
playgoers have ever read the play in its original, but that's beside the
point >>>
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Articulate radicals
Is this a letter from a radical Communist party or a professional PR
firm? Fascinating >>>
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More Letters
* No good to ridicule
Anonymous writes: In response to dAtyi Hamid's ["Hamvatanaan-e
araaqi": I read your satire piece about the "Mojafeqin".
I don't condone what they are doing as an organization but believe many
who joined their ranks believe genuinely that this is the only way. Just
because you and I don't agree with their methods and strategies doesn't
justify our blatant and mindless attack on their beliefs >>>
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* Man behind Googoosh
Nicole Radmand
writes: I feel our people don't give credit to Shahyar
Ghanbari as he is the one behind Googoosh's success. It was his poems
that touched our souls.
Of course Googoosh is also a very talented artist but look at the history
of the hit songs: Do Mahi, Harf, Safar, Jomeh..."Baa soghouteh dastaayeh
to dar tanam chizi forou rikht..." These were all written by Ghanbari.
WHY DOESN'T GOOGOOSH TALK ABOUT SHAHYAR GHANBARI? WHY IS THIS A BIG
CRIME? >>>
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* Aalbaaloo gilaas
Neda writes: First
of all thanks a lot for the good job and for creating such a wonderful
forum for all of us. Second, CHERAA CHESHMAATOON AALBAALOO GILAAS MICHINEH?!
Lately the links on The Iranian Times have sometimes been mixed
up. For example the link which was supposed to go to the article about
Persia in Hollywood films ended up in a story about pistachios!
Bbut you know what? I think even these small mistakes are fun and make
The Iranian more unique.
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in London. We need a correspondent who is in a position to file news stories
on Iran every two weeks, covering the principal political developments
there and the country's regional and international relations. If interested
please contact
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
She's gone-no one has ever been so good a friend;
Gone before my heart was full, or ready for an end.
She's gone, and with her the cure for this pain.
The rose is gone and still the thorn remains.
-- Rumi
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Eight people injured as unrest erupts again
in Khorramabad
TEHRAN,
Aug 30 (AFP) - Iran's western city of Khoramabad erupted in violence again
overnight as rioters clashed with security forces, leaving eight people
injured, press reports said Wednesday. Demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails
Tuesday evening and the unrest continued until elite police units and anti-riot
forces brought the situation under control, the Kayhan paper said >>>
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Uneasy Calm Prevails in Iranian City
KHORRAMABAD, Iran (AP) - Riot police dispersed a crowd of youths
Tuesday as an uneasy calm settled over this western Iranian city following
days of violence over a meeting of reformist students. Some 20,000 people
marched earlier in the day in the funeral procession of a policeman who
was killed in riots on Sunday. Ardeshir Karami was somehow shot during fighting
between supporters of students from Iran's largest student group, who had
come to Khorramabad for their annual conference, and hard-line vigilantes.
Exactly how he was shot remained unclear >>> FULL TEXT
Iran jails lawyer over US radio interview
TEHRAN,
Aug 30 (AFP) - The defence lawyer for several pro-reform Iranian newspapers
banned earlier this year was arrested in connection with a US radio interview,
the state IRNA news agency said Wednesday. Mohammad-Ali Jedari-Forouqi was
jailed Monday on charges of helping the editor of a pro-reform journal spread
"false allegations" about the Iranian courts in an interview with
US radio network Voice of America (VOA) >>> FULL TEXT
Iranian illegal immigrants believed drowned
in attempt to enter Croatia
SARAJEVO,
Aug 29 (AFP) - Nine Iranians immigrants attempting to clandestinely cross
into Croatia most likely drowned when their boat capsized on the river Sava
which marks Bosnia's border with Croatia, the UN said Tuesday. The accident
occurred late Monday night near the northern Bosnian Serb town of Srpski
Brod when one of two boats carrying Iranian migrants capsized, UN spokesman
Douglas Coffman told reporters >>> FULL TEXT
Officer alive and well despite Iraqi base
MKO claims: paper
TEHRAN,
Aug 30 (AFP) - A senior Iranian military officer denied claims by the opposition
People's Mujahedeen that it seriously wounded him in a Tehran ambush, a
conservative newspaper reported on Wednesday. "I am absolutely safe
and sound," the Tehran Times quoted Revolutionary Guards Brigadier
General Reza Seifollahi as saying. "There was a plan to assassinate
me but it was foiled before they reached me >>> FULL TEXT
Foreign scientist ban at labs to end
WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists from ``sensitive'' countries such
as China, Russia and Iran are expected soon to resume normal ties with the
Energy Department's three nuclear weapons research labs, ending a 10-month
ban on virtually all such contact. Concerned about safeguarding nuclear
secrets, Congress last November barred scientists from 25 ``sensitive''
countries from visiting the labs, having contact with lab scientists or
access to any computer systems at the facilities, even unclassified ones
>>> FULL TEXT
Oil Overheats Despite Crude Stock Rise
LONDON (Reuters) - Blazing oil prices showed no signs of retreating
Wednesday, trading steady despite reports of a big increase in U.S. crude
stocks as fears of heating oil shortages this winter in the West mounted.
International benchmark Brent crude futures for October delivery were trading
nine cents higher at $31.45 in the afternoon while U.S. light crude futures
were four cents up at $32.78 >>> FULL TEXT
Iranian film to compete in Venice
Tehran (Iran daily) -- Jafar Panahi's "Daayereh" (The
Circle), is the only Iranian film in the the competition category of the
Venice Film Festival >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
"Smell Of Camphor" in New York
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Bahman Farmanara's criticallt-acclaimed 'The Smell Of Camphor,
The Fragrance Of Jasmine' will be shown at the New York Film Festival >>>
FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Hats throughout history
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Study on Iranian hats, crowns and other head
covers from ancient Iran up to recent history >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
Big match on Friday
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) -- The Iranian national soccer team has departed for Vienna
for a friendly match with the Austrian national team on Friday. Here's an
interview with head coach Jalal Talebi >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Mahdavi-Kia will be benched?
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) -- Hamburg has paid the highest price ever to acquire a
new player who may threaten Mehdi Mahdavi-Kia's starting position >>>
FULL PERSIAN TEXT
U-17 off to Asian championships
Tehran (Iran Varzeshi) -- Iran's U-17 national soccer team, which
has played brilliantly in recent matches, has left for Vietnam to take part
in the final rounds of the Asian championships. Here are the names of the
players >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
BBC
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: >>>
LISTEN HERE
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Not given up, yet
Mr Khatami, under no circumstances, will reach any compromise.
I don't think he is powerless but he has reached a very difficult point
he has to pass. He has not decided to give up. We believe democracy will
win in the end.
-- High-level official close to the president
Financial
Times
August 30, 2000
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