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Khayyam
Fiction
The wedding
Short story
By Reza Ordoubadian
January 18, 2000
The Iranian
Grandfather was 108 when he died - grudgingly - and he made it no secret
that he was not very pleased to live a celibate life. He considered a woman
in his bed as necessary to his metabolism as food and air to his living;
so, he wanted a third wife urgently, before he became too old to enjoy
married bliss to the fullest, he said; as a matter of fact, he had already
picked the woman he wanted to marry.
"Your Mother - she has been dead for how long, now?" He pondered
for a moment, framing Aunt Gammar with his squinting eyes just to shake
her up. "Two years yes, two years, I say," he roared from his
bed one evening, pointing his crinkled, steady index finger at his daughters
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Towards the 6th Majlis elections
Cutting losses: the right's election strategy
January 2000 (Iran Focus) -- Since the Guardian Council released the
names of Majlis hopefuls that it deemed unqualified to run in the elections,
the domestic and foreign press has been full of confusing and contradictory
reports about who met with the cutting blade of Approbatory Supervision,
who survived the vetting process, and why. Despite many reports that adherents
of the reformist faction were the main victims of the Guardian Council's
vetting, it is fairly clear that the conservatives did not resort to mass
rejection of pro-Khatami candidates as originally expected. This article
sheds light on the strategy of the conservatives, who seem reasonably sure
that they will not control the sixth Majlis >>>
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No problem. Kill'em all
TEHRAN, Jan 18 (AFP) - Pigeons have fallen on hard times in Iran, after
a Tehran court settled a violent dispute between two pigeon breeders by
ordering their 370 birds slaughtered, the Entekhab newspaper reported Tuesday
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* Sports: Iran wrestling team at World
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January 11, 2000, (USA Wrestling) -- Come and see Iranian freestyle
wrestlers compete in the world chgampionships! Iran has announced its preliminary
lineup of athletes that will compete at the World Cup of Freestyle Wrestling
to be held at the Patriot Center at George Mason University in Fairfax,
Virginia on February 5-6. >>>
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more since, a student association said Tuesday. The Islamic Association
of Students in Semnan, east of Tehran, is "very concerned about him
and his state of health," it said of its leader Abbas Pazuki in a statement
sent to AFP >>> FULL TEXT
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a press court Monday to answer 27 charges facing his newspaper, in a shift
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and intolerable." >>> FULL TEXT
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history's verdict, Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Tuesday as he
started a three-day visit to the Gulf port of Bandar Abbas >>>
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Iran, China firms to discuss pipeline funding-paper
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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
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Jalali & Beh-Azin no more
Karim Emami writes from Tehran: Bizhan Jalali, the prominent
poet, passed away last Friday. He was 73, and he is survived only by his
poetry, which was published over a 36-year span in five volumes. His poems
are mostly stark and unadorned Haiku type pieces that have been described
as "philosophical and introspective". Another name to add to the
list of the departed old-generation Iraninan literati is that of Mahmud
E`temadzadeh a.k.a. "Beh-Azin", well-known writer and translator,
who had been the literary star of Iran's Tudeh Party.
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Ebrahimi: I still don't know why we agreed to play in the U.S. And why aren't
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