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* Diaspora: She changed overnight
* Books: New books from Iran
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 20

Recent

* Art: Song and dance
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 19
* Elections: He's history
* Elections: Dialogue among ourselves
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 16, 17 & 18
* Elections: So alike
* Elections: Road to victory
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 15
* Cover story: The ballot box
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 14


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Friday
February 25, 2000

    Diaspora

She changed overnight
Before and after getting a Green Card

By Kasra
February 25, 2000
The Iranian

This is an email from a reader -- not an article. It's just dard-o-del. Sadly, it's a story often heard among Iranians aborad.

Last year I went to Iran and met a good-looking 35-year-old woman... We went to Dubai and got married. When I returned to America, I applied to get her a Green Card... When she arrived we had great love affairs and I felt like the luckiest person on earth! After two months her Green Card arrived and I gave it to her. A day after that she changed 180 degrees! She would make excuses and start fights. She tore up 200 love letters that were exchanged between us. She tore up our many pictures taken together in Dubai. (Of course she did not know that in America we make two prints from our films!). It seemed she was trying to erase every evidence of our time together. >>> GO TO FEATURE

New books

Eleven new books from Iran! Esmail Fassih's latest novel; history of Tudeh officers, a film script about the life of the Shah; Iran's best selling novel; eight short stories by Sadegh Hedayat and... >>> GO HERE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Nineteen >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Thursday
February 24, 2000

    Art

Song and dance
Paintings by Mina Agah

November 4, 2000
The Iranian

What pelasure it is to sit behind a computer all day and suddenly receive an email from an artist. "Will you consider publishing my work?" Well, of course! I loved Mina Agah's paintings as soon as I opened them in Photoshop. Enjoy >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Nineteen >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Wednesday
February 23, 2000

    Elections

He's history
Hashemi Rafsanjani has lost respect

By Maryam Farahvashi in Tehran
February 23, 2000
The Iranian

Regarding the "demise" of Mr Hashemi Rafsanjani much has already been said. What has happened, of course, was no surprise to me at all. I had predicted it exactly as it happened. The only unknown premise was the amount of success he might have in influencing the vote in his favor through his old connections.

As things stand right now, Rafsanjani is still trying. He may eventually succeed because he has had twenty years of experience. So he may still get a seat in parliament and could even become its speaker. What is important here, however, is the fact that he has lost the little respect this nation still had for him >>> GO TO FEATURE

    Elections

Dialogue among ourselves
An email to Mohammad Khatami

By Roozbeh Shirazi
February 23, 2000
The Iranian

Mr. President,

I write you tonight because I have a very strong dream. This dream of mine is to one day visit my motherland, Iran. I have never been there and my parents have not gone back for 25 years now...

In the 25 years that my parents have been here, both of my grandfathers passed away, and my grandmother recently passed away in November. My parents never got to go home to say goodbye because of the policies in place at the time. My father has not seen his brothers and sisters for 25 years now, and there is a whole family I only know through the telephone >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Sixteen, Seventeen & Eighteen >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Tuesday
February 22, 2000

    Elections

So alike
Us and the Americans

By Laleh Khalili
February 22, 2000
The Iranian

What I want to write about is quite pedestrian: the universality of humanity as demonstrated by the absurdity and exhilaration of the game of politics. Elections are a vivid tableau in which a society is distilled and displayed; these particular elections so much more so...

What I want to say, based on this quick sketch of similarities, is simple. We are so much alike, we the Americans, and we the Iranians. Our governmental institutions may be vastly different; as our economies and our military capabilities are; but as a people, here and there, we are the same. We both play the politics of identity; religion and faith are so infinitely important to us >>> GO TO FEATURE

Elections

The road to victory
It won't be smooth

By Rasool Nafisi
February 22, 2000
The Iranian

The unprecedented surge of political participation of Iranians in the 1997 presidential election, which brought Mohammad Khatami to power, halted the gradual trend toward absolutism, at least temporarily. For the first time Iranians experienced a relatively free election. Although, it must be added that Iranians have tried their hand in 20 national elections so far, and they seem to be determined to win over despotism through rational rather than emotionally-charged political action...

So the reformists have won the majority of the Majlis. This stunning victory will not bring full-fledged democracy to Iran, but it will halt the advancement of the anti-democratic forces. What now? >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Fourteen >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Monday
February 21, 2000

    Cover story

The ballot box
Majlis elections mark new era

Written and Photographed by Dokhi Fassihian
February 21, 2000
The Iranian

There is excitement on the streets of Tehran. Democracy has arrived with a vengeance. All over town, people are talking about the latest results of Friday's vote and making predictions for the final makeup of Iran's sixth Majles. In taxis, homes, restaurants, and parties, politics rules supreme.

In a stunning victory, reformists belonging to the Islamic Iran Participation Front (pro-Khatami factions) have swept Tehran, Mashad, Esfehan and Shiraz and other major cities. Following in second place are independent candidates, and coming in last with a small minority are the conservatives >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Fourteen >>> GO TO FEATURE

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