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Serving His Majesty
A former prime minister speaks of the Pahlavi era
By Habib Ladjevardi
January 31, 2000
The Iranian
From the preface to Memoirs of Jafar Sharif-Emami, Prime Minister
of Iran (1960-1961 & 1978), the seventh volume from the Harvard
Iranian Oral History Project Series edited by Habib Ladjevardi (Ibex Publishers
, 1999).
As cabinet minister, president of the Senate, president of the Pahlavi
Foundation, president of the Iran Chamber of Industries and Mines and twice
prime minister during the reign of Mohammad-Reza Shah, Jafar Sharif-Emami
was a key player in major events and decisions of the time. For some years,
he was also the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Iran, giving him additional
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In Islam's State, an Islamic Cry for Change
By JOHN F. BURNS
The New York Times
January 30, 2000
When he arrived at the shop of a specialist in old Islamic scripts in
Tehran, the mullah, about 40, was neatly bearded in the way of the college-educated
Shiite clerics. But he was dressed in a business suit, not his cleric's
attire, and he was flustered.
Late for his appointment, he explained that he had waited in the street
in his white turban, black cloak and collarless white shirt, and had seen
a dozen empty taxis pass. So he returned home and changed to a suit, and
the next taxi picked him up. But the driver, eyeing his fare's salt-and-pepper
beard in the mirror, asked, "You're a mullah, aren't you?"
"Well yes, I must confess that I am," the mullah said >>>
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Iranian prostitutes in Mexico, we're showing that all Iranians are prostitutes?
Then what are we promoting by forbidding the publication of such descriptions?
That there are NO Iranian prostitutes anywhere in the world? That our race
is incapable of producing prostitutes? That Obeyd-e
Zakani and Sa'di and many other poets were all liars? That Iraj Mirza
and Parvin-e Etessami were spreaders of untruths? Are we not making an
ignorant bunch out of ourselves, then?
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Taxi
Late for his appointment, [the 40-year-old mullah] explained that he
had waited in the street in his white turban, black cloak and collarless
white shirt, and had seen a dozen empty taxis pass. So he returned home
and changed to a suit, and the next taxi picked him up. But the driver,
eyeing his fare's salt-and-pepper beard in the mirror, asked, "You're
a mullah, aren't you?" "Well yes, I must confess that I am,"
the mullah said. "If I'd realized that when I first saw you,"
the driver said, "I wouldn't have stopped."
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