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Tip-toeing toward reform
... against a powerful conservative minority
By Mehdi Ardalan
August 31, 2000
The Iranian
Khamenei's alliance with conservatives in shelving the press reform
bill may have taught the reformists a lesson: be content with smaller steps.
But by concentrating on lesser issues, the reformers would appear to be
moving away from the people's main demands. It could even make the reformers
as unpopular as the conservatives. To prevent this, reformist leaders,
including Khatami himself, have preached patience but kept up the protest.
By refusing to prescribe a violent revolt, the reform movement seems
to be contemplating new tactics aimed at advancing its agenda through the
quagmire that is Iran's political structure. The difficult challenge is
to take full advantage the president and parliament's popularity and at
the same time try to control public anger and frustration >>>
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Wealth
By dAyi Hamid
August 30, 2000
The Iranian >>>
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Outlook
More Violence in Khoramabad
BBC Persian Service
There are reports of further disturbances in Khoramabad. Several people
are reported to have been arrested after the latest unrest. In the meantime
high-level government and judiciary investigative teams have travelled
to Khoramabad in an attempt to establish who is responsible for the violence.
Sima Bahrami has sopken to two political analysts on this issue >>> LISTEN HERE
Iranian, U.S. lawmakers meet for the first time in
20 years
BY: Barbara Slavin
USA TODAY
August 31, 2000
Iranian and U.S. lawmakers met for the first time in 20 years Wednesday
night at a reception in New York City that could further ease tensions
between the former allies and lead to a return visit by U.S. congressmen
to Iran.
Also attending the reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art were
top figures in the U.S. Jewish community. Iran's Islamic government has
been hostile to Israel. In July, it convicted 10 Jews of spying for Israel
>>>
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Sharon Stone upstaged by Iran's star in a chador
By Hugh Davies in Venice
The Telegraph
August 31, 2000
THE Venice Film Festival opened last night with the principal guests,
Sharon Stone and Clint Eastwood, almost upstaged by a young woman from
Iran. Appearing on the Lido Esplanade, Samira Makhmalbaf, at the age of
20 Teheran's youngest film director, had the paparazzi eating out of her
hands as she posed in a black chador-like garb and simple sandals >>> FULL
TEXT
Online matching
By KATHERINE SHEK
The Fairfax Journal
August 31, 2000
Saied Ghaffari, 16, and his mother sat on the couch one night last year,
talking and sharing ideas as usual, when the conversation turned to a news
article about a 20-year-old Fremont man who made $12 million when an investor
bought his Web site reviewing video games.
The idea hit home for Saied's mother, Davar Ardalan, who looked at her
son, a rising junior at Oakton High School and an avid computer user >>>
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Boxing ring
Daftar Tahkin-e Vahdat: Open letter following Khorramabad inrest
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Kargar Sosiaalist: Why Rah-e Kargar's views about Iran's
political situation is wrong >>>
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Anyway
Tabrik!
dAyi Hamid on the birth oh his second child:
Rebecca popped out at 08:04 this morning. 3670g, 49cm, and "sor
o mor o gondeh". I haven't slept since Monday. I'm going to bed now.
chaaker
dAyi Hamid
***
There are no pictures of Rebecca yet. But here are some cute pictures
of dAyi Hamid's first child, Roxanna.
More Letters
* Malaagheh
Abbas M. Zadeh writes:
Well I just finished reading your so-called review of the Googoosh
concert in New York and I must say I am quite dismayed by what I have read
["Baptized
in tears"]. No wonder critics are hated even more than what they
criticize. Where do you get off judging all the aspects of Googoosh's show?
The only aspect that you were right about was our oneness - being one
people from one place and that is IRAN! Too bad that you decided to leave
that as an unimportant thing in the last paragraph of your so called: "MAGHAALEH".
Well to me, it was more of a "MALAAGHEH"! If you get my meaning!>>>
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* American missionaries in Iran
Myrtle (Browning) Fulton
writes: Comments on Blood & Oil: Memoirs of a Persian prince
by Manucher and Roxane Farmanfarmaian: Dear Ms. Farmanfarmaian, I just
finished reading the book "Blood
& Oil" and I found it fascinating! I had been giving credit
to your father for the bulk of the writing, but in the Web heading with
your name I see that you should get the credit for most of the writing.
Congratulations!
Part of the reason I found the book so fascinating is that I grew up
in Persia/Iran. About the time your father was sent to England for school,
I was born to Presbyterian missionary parents in Rezaiyeh (Urumia) in Azerbaijan.
Except for furlough years (basically 1928 and school year 1937-1938) I
lived in Iran. I can picture many of the places that are mentioned, though
I saw them from quite a different perspective than your father. My parents
were stationed first in Rezaiyeh, second in Tehran 1934-37 and finally
in Resht (Rasht) where my father died and is buried in the Armenian cemetery.
One sister died and is buried at Seir just outside Rezaiyeh. My mother
retired in 1957 and died in 1974. But there are many memories. I left in
1944 after D-Day opened up a way to get back to the USA via the Atlantic
>>>
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Theater: Sex & suspense: play in
Berkeley
Darvag, the Berkeley-based Iranian
theatre company, pushes the limits with a bilingual production of Mario
Fratti's VICTIM, with the same cast playing alternate nights in English
and Persian. Opening September 1, through September 17, with performances
in English on Fridays, and in Persian on Saturdays and Sundays >>> DETAILS HERE
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
The day my heart and love begin to fight
My barefoot soul will run from their sight.
Keep your sanity: steer clear of me.
You're insane if you think me wise.
-- Rumi
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Five arrested as unrest in Khorramabad
flares again: paper
TEHRAN,
Aug 31 (AFP) - Riots erupted for the seventh straight night in the western
Iranian city of Khoramabad as demonstrators smashed bank windows and hurled
Molotov cocktails, press reports said Thursday. The Kayhan paper said five
people were arrested in the latest troubles in the city, which has been
on edge since two leading critics arrived last Thursday to address a pro-reform
student conference >>> FULL TEXT
Iran says unrest in provinces over as investigation
begins
TEHRAN,
Aug 31 (AFP) - Iran's Supreme National Security Council, which is chaired
by President Mohammad Khatami, on Thursday sent an investigative team to
the riot-torn western city of Khoramabad, state radio said. The announcement
came as Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi was quoted in the press saying
that the unrest which erupted in the city last week, leaving one dead and
dozens injured, was now firmly under control >>> FULL TEXT
US, Iranian Lawmakers Meet in N.Y.
NEW YORK (AP) - For the first time since the Islamic revolution
two decades ago, a group of American and Iranian lawmakers met and discussed
U.S. sanctions against Tehran, the treatment of Iranian Jews and other issues
dividing the two countries, participants said Thursday. Lawmakers from both
Iran and the United States stressed that the 20-minute discussion Wednesday
night at a museum reception was an unofficial ``bumping into'' - not a formal,
sit-down meeting - although both sides knew the other would be attending
>>> FULL TEXT
Court orders whipping, then death for murder
of Islamic fighter
TEHRAN,
Aug 31 (AFP) - An Iranian man will be put to death next week for murdering
a member of the country's volunteer Basiji Islamic militia during a botched
kidnapping, a newspaper reported Thursday. Hamid Heydari was also sentenced
to be whipped before being executed after he stabbed Basiji fighter Timor
Hassan-Zadeh to death last month in the city of Rey, the Jame-Jam paper
said >>> FULL TEXT
US oil holds above $33 despite promise
of Saudi supply
NEW
YORK, Aug 31 (Reuters) - U.S. oil held strong above $33 a barrel Thursday
as traders shrugged off signals from OPEC delegates that kingpin Saudi Arabia
was ready to increase output unilaterally if necessary to lower crude prices.
October crude oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) settled
at $33.12 a barrel, down just 20 cents after trading as high as $33.70 in
intraday activity.>>> FULL TEXT
"Bad" film becomes huge hit
Tehran,
(Hamshahri) -- Siroos Alvand's latest film "Dast-haaye aaloodeh"
(Stained Hands) has quickly become a huge box office hit, thanks to its
youth appeal. But the film's characters have no substance >>> FULL
PERSIAN TEXT
Youth short films fest: Hundreds enter
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- There have been more than 1,100 entries
in the youth short films festival. Percentage of those produced by the private
sector has increased >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
3000-year-old temple gets attention
Tehran,
(Hamshahri) -- Clay scripts at Choghazanbil, a temple built around 1250
B.C., have received "identity papers" (organized, categorized?)
in a joint effort by Iranian archaeological centers >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
Austria vs. Iran
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Who should the Iranian national soccer team fear most in
Friday's friendly against Austria? >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Persepolis Coaching controversy
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) -- Ali Parvin still insists that he does not need a foreign
coach as an assistant. But the club thinks otherwise >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
Lebanon looking better and better
Tehran (Iran Varzeshi) -- The Lebanese national soccer team, which
is in the same group as Iran in the Asian championships, looks more and
more like a serious contender >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
BBC
Arrested Journalists Fate
Several pro-reform journalists were arrested
almost one month ago in Tehran. There has not been much reports about their
situation and it is not clear when their trials are going to be held. Saeed
Yekta has got more details >>>
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Quote Unquote
Approved
This must have been cleared at the highest levels in Tehran.
-- Geoffrey Kemp, Middle East expert at the Nixon Center
on meeting between Iranian and U.S. lawmakers in New York
USA Today
August 31, 2000
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