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Opinion
Goal!
Normalization of U.S.-Iranian relations
By Najmedin Meshkati & Guive Mirfendereski
January 13, 2000
The Iranian
On January 16, the U.S. and Iranian national soccer teams will take
to the field at the site of the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. In contrast to the
rather reserved and mostly disinterested American sentiment about the game,
the Iranian enthusiasts in southern California and the world over are in
a state of frenzied anticipation and the press in Tehran is full of reports
and commentaries.
Last time these two teams met, it was during the 1998 World Cup, when
on Sunday, June 21, 1998, in Lyons, France, the Iranian squad posted a
2-1 victory over the U.S. team. The Iranian believers rejoiced, the American
sportscasters were outright nasty and denigrating in their incredulity
and the politically correct in both Iranian and American communities were
grateful for the civility that had prevailed on and off the field. When
asked why she was cheering for the Iranian team, a Jewish American friend
commented "because the game meant more to the Iranians."
What now? >>>
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Montazeri breaks silence
BY: Geneive Abdo in Qom
The Guardian (London)
January 13, 2000
 The man behind profound change in Iran is the invisible
resident of this holy Shi'ite Muslim city.
He has been under house arrest for more than two years, exiled to his
modest home on Riverbank Street. Few dare to mention his name in public.
Newspapers which print his ideas are closed or taken to court. Fellow clerics
who spread his opinions in public are imprisoned. And thousands of his
disciples, the seminarians who read his banned books, do so clandestinely.
Now, Ayatollah Ali Hossein Montazeri is tired of being silenced. In
his first interview ever, according to his aides, he told the Guardian
of his vision for a new Iran >>>
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Anyway
Anoushirvan D. Fakhran, a.k.a. Jonathan Taylor Spielberg
By Tom Jackman
The Washington Post
Thursday, January 13, 2000
The Fairfax City man who was arrested after allegedly convincing high
school administrators that he was the nephew of filmmaker Steven Spielberg
said yesterday that he is "no older than 18" and that he committed
no crime in occasionally attending Paul VI Catholic High School.
Jonathan Spielberg said he went to classes at the Fairfax school "once
or twice a week," beginning last spring. When officials became concerned
over his poor attendance, they tried to contact Steven Spielberg at his
DreamWorks SKG studio in California and learned that he has no nephew living
here...
In August 1997, Spielberg changed his name from Anoushirvan D. Fakhran,
saying Jonathan Taylor Spielberg was his great-grandfather's name >>>
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More Letters
* I am UPSET
Mustafa Khan writes: Please take me off your email list. Please.
The reason is that I am disappointed that you have chosen Mossadegh as
your Iranian
of the century. That shows that your magazine is not worth reading.
It's understood that Ayatollah Khomeini is the Iranian of the century
-- no doubt . Whether for bad or good, he shook the world. He certainly
was the Iranian of the century as well as MAN OF THE CENTURY OF THE WORLD.
I am UPSET . We used to subscribe to your magazine but not any more.
Please take me off your email list. My friends are going to do the same.
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* Amazed
Reyhaneh Fathieh
writes: I recently read "An
American in Iran". I was amazed at how well you understood and
appreciated the Iranian culture. But your flawless comprehension of Iranian
people, their feelings, and views, was the most impressive.
I am 15 years old, and sitting here with my grandfather who just recently
traveled from Iran to America for a knee surgery. We have lived back and
forth between Iran and America until I was nine, but finally we were able
to "flee" and come to live in the great U.S. permanently.
It has only been a year since my family has settled down and all together
again. Through the struggles we went through, I have changed quite a bit.
But I will never forget my roots. I actually went back to visit my family
last summer, and I felt just as you did. Even though I had lived in this
country, everything seemed so unorganized and less than what I had remembered.
I am fascinated that an American is so interested and fond of our culture
and country.
* Behrouz Vosouqi
In reference to Nostalgia photos:
Haxamanesh writes : Behrouz Vosouqi
used to live in Los Angeles. He now lives in the San Fransisco Bay Area.
Roumor has it that he owns a cafe.
Moftaki writes: He
became one of the followers of Mr. Angha who has set up his own Khanehghah
and Moreed-dom in the San Fransisco Bay Area.
* Art: Women artists competition, Berkeley
I would like to inform you of an upcoming competition for Iranian female
artists taking place in Berkeley, California, USA, in conjunction with
the International Iranian Women's Conference. This year the committee of
IWC, with the encouragement and collaboration of local artists in Northern
California, has organized competition for an exhibition of the contemporary
arts, produced by Iranian women artists >>>
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imprisoned politicians
TEHRAN,
Jan 13 (AFP) - An Iranian opposition party called on President Mohammad
Khatami Thursday to protect the rights of three of its jailed leaders, alleging
that at least one had been tortured in detention. "Khosro Seyf, Bahram
Namazi and Farzin Mokhbar have been in prison for six months. There has
been no news about their interrogations and their trials," the Party
of the Iranian People (PIP) said in a statement seen here by AFP >>>
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'Assembly of Experts' warns future MPs
not to create crises
TEHRAN,
Jan 13 (AFP) - Iran's powerful Assembly of Experts warned members of the
parliament to be elected next month not to "create crises," the
official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. The assembly met on Wednesday
and issued a statement stressing the primordial role of parliament, which
it said had the means "both of creating and of avoiding crises,"
IRNA said >>> FULL TEXT
For a change, courts to try a conservative
journalist
TEHRAN,
Jan 13 (AFP) - Iran, which has become accustomed to seeing moderate newspaper
editors stand trial, will witness the trial next week of a conservative
publication's chief, a Tehran press court judge said Thursday. Hossein Shariatmadari
will have to defend himself against 27 charges concerning news published
in the Kayhan daily in the past few months. His trial by jury will be public,
the judge told AFP >>> FULL TEXT
U.S. and Iran Soccer Match Encouraging
to Humanitarian Efforts
PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- For the second time in
recent history, and the first time on American soil, the U.S. and Iranian
soccer teams are about to take the field together in what Robin Wainwright
views as a symbolic step toward furthering humanitarian efforts in the Middle
East >>> FULL TEXT
Woman medical students protest poor education
TEHRAN, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Students at an all-women medical school
in Iran have gone on strike to protest against poor education which they
blame on segregation of the sexes, a newspaper reported on Thursday. The
daily Aftab-e Emrouz said the students from Fatemieh medical school in the
city of Qom, a stronghold of the Shi'ite Moslem clergy, had boycotted classes
for two weeks >>> FULL TEXT
Opec determined to keep oil price high
High oil prices look set to stay after several of the world's major
oil producers hinted that they will try to keep production cuts in place
for the rest of the year. In January 1999, one barrel of crude oil could
be bought for under $10. Since then the price has soared to more than $25,
as a direct result of production cuts agreed by members of the Organisation
of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) and several of their allies
>>> FULL TEXT
Iran's NIOC International put on back burner
LONDON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The operations of National Iranian Oil
Company (NIOC) International, a subsidiary of state oil company NIOC, have
been temporarily put on ice just months after the company's creation, Iranian
oil sources said on Tuesday. When it assumed NIOC's trading activities in
October, NIOC International's brief was to handle all of Iran's international
and downstream oil and gas business in a manner similar to the world's oil
majors, industry sources said >>> FULL TEXT
Iran and Turkey agree to delay in gas deliveries
TEHRAN, Jan 12 (AFP) - Iran has agreed to delay its gas deliveries
to Turkey until September 2001 because the Turks are not ready, the official
news agency IRNA quoted Iran's deputy oil minister Hamdollah Mohammad-Nejad
as saying Wednesday. But Mohammad-Nejad, who is also head of the Iranian
National Gas Corporation (NIGC), told a press conference that Ankara would
have to pay compensation for the hold-up >>> FULL TEXT
Three mermaids
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadegan) - Comparing the mermaids created by Goli Taraqi in her
new book with those by Forough Farrokhzad and Samad Behrangi (PDF file)
>>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Award
Tehran
(Hamshahri) - Ebrahim Mokhtari's documentary -- about the hardships of a
woman who was forced to get married at a young age -- has won an award in
a film festival in France >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
New cinemas
Tehran (Hamshahri) - The government will hand out loans totaling
six billtion tomans next year to encouarge the private sector to build cinemas
>>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Iran beat Ecuador under-23 team
LOS ANGELES, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Ali Daei and Ali Mosavi scored
to give Iran's national soccer team a 2-1 victory over Ecuador's under-23
team Wednesday night in a friendly at the Memorial Coliseum >>>
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Gotta move fast
Tehran
(Iran daily) - Two thirds of the ticktes for Sunday's match between Iran
and the U.S. in Pasadena have been sold, U.S. officials say >>>
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Iran vs. Asia
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadegan) - The Iranian national soccer team will face the Asian
All-Stars in Tehran on January 21 >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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As many in Iran and the U.S. hope, [Sunday's soccer match between Iran
and the U.S.] will be another side chat and whisper in the direction of
a full blown dialogue aimed at normalizing relations between the two countries.
-- Najmedin Meshkari and Guive Mirfendereski
"Goal!"
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January 13, 2000
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