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Baba Taher
Memories
A kiss in a Cadillac
... and crash!
By xAle
January 25, 2000
The Iranian
After a few rainy days, it was such a pleasure to see the sun again.
The delicate new leaves shined invitingly with brilliant colors. Mashhad's
winter cold had started to fade and everywhere one could see that spring
was in the air.
Sparrows made fresh nests and the narcissus with their long stalks were
about to bloom. There was so much happening with spring just a few weeks
away; it was hard not to join in.
After school, as I left the courtyard, I saw Hamid standing next to
a big, shiny black car asking if I wanted to go for a ride in a "Cadillac"
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Karbaschi: cleric who gave up his turban for a suit
TEHRAN, Jan 25 (AFP) - Jailed former Tehran mayor Gholamhossein Karbaschi,
who was granted an amnesty Tuesday, is a cleric turned Western-style administrator
whose vast public works schemes transformed the face of the capital but
made him an easy target for charges of corruption.
Schooled in Islamic theology in the holy city of Qom, Karbaschi reached
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Een cheh va'zasheh?
Room with a snowy view: I woke up this morning and looked out the window...
snow everywhere. And I thought, for the thousandth time, why am I not in
... California? >>>
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* Iran. What a land
A.Forati writes:
Iran. What a land. What a people.I have lived away from it for almost
30 years, but, have visited frequently. I love the country, the people,
the desert, the brick walls, the trees, the crows, and the trenches of
water that run in every direction.
I am so saddened by the conditions in Iran. The pollution, poverty,
dirt, illiteracy, lack of medicine and medical facilities. At a time when
the world is accelerating toward technology to better human's living conditions,
Iran is holding back the people in the dark ages.
"Internet" is sold by Kilo-Bytes, making it expensive and
impractical for many. What do you think would happen if Iranians got educated?
Tehran is drowned in its smoke. People are dying at ages of 40 and 50 of
heart attacks and strokes due to stress and over-exhaustion by working
two jobs >>>
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* Opinions so obviously Iranian
Cyrus Rafaat writes:
It is interesting to have seen this survey and the myriad of results
["Iranians
of the century"]; as well as the different opinions so obviously
Iranian in the fact that they are heated and opinionated!
Being a polisci-major during my undergrad I debated with several Iranian
classmates on this very issue about 10-years-ago: "personality cults"
versus "media attention" versus "real results" (whether
for good or for bad on any particular nation-state, such as Iran) are the
real questions when deciding on who is a man-of-prominence deserving the
title, "man of the century".
For Iran, it is interesting on the one hand to note that there isn't
anyone prominent in the arts or sciences during this turbulent century,
unlike the Iran of bygone-eras with names like Abu Ali Sina, for instance
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Film: Gavazn-haa in LA
The Iranian Gradutae Students Association at the University of Southern
California, Los Angeles, will be showing "Gavazn-haa" A classic
film directed by Masoud Kimiaii. When: Wednesday January 26, 2000 at 7:00
sharp! Where: SLH-200 (Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Room 200), USC Campus
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TEHRAN, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The former mayor of Tehran has been
pardoned of his conviction for graft, freeing one of Iran's most influential
reformist politicians just weeks ahead of key parliamentary polls. State
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mortar attacks across Iran's western border but there were no casualties,
Iranian state television reported on Tuesday. It said the Mujahideen Khalq
armed opposition group fired several mortars across the border in an area
in Ilam province late on Monday. ``This useless action did not cause any
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250,000 arrested over drugs and alcohol
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Jan 25 (AFP) - A total of 250,000 people were arrested in Iran last year
for dealing in and consuming drugs and alcohol, the secretary of the government's
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million) deal with an Italian consortium on Tuesday for projects to boost
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MP lauds TotalFina's commitment to Iranian
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TEHRAN,
Jan 25 (AFP) - An Iranian MP and former deputy oil minister praised French
oil major TotalFina Tuesday for its commitment to oil and gas projects in
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(Iran daily) - Iranians make great films these days. But why don't they
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Church "saved"
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