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How the Mossadegh government was overthrown
By Mark Gasiorowski
Jully 7, 2000
The Iranian
I have had a thorough look through the CIA history of the 1953 coup
in Iran (codenamed TPAJAX) that was recently released on the New York
Times' internet site. I have also gone through the version giving many
of the blanked-out names th at is available on the cryptome.org internet
site. The following are what seem to be the most important points made
in the history >>>
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Iran tries peaceful revolution
By Scott Peterson
The Christian Science Monitor
July 7, 2000
TEHRAN, IRAN Violence often defines pivotal moments in the Middle East,
and events marking their memory have a history of turning violent, too.
But Iranian students - the same group that one year ago became embroiled
in the worst street violence in 20 years - are turning to flower power.
"," declares student leader , describing anniversary plans for
Saturday for a mass distribution of blooms >>>
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Justice that is politically judged
The Economist
July 08, 2000
Tehran -- BEFORE their trial started, a voluble outside world had declared
the 13 Iranian Jews accused of spying for Israel to be innocent. So when,
on July 1st, the Revolutionary Court sentenced ten of the accused to prison
terms of four to 13 years, the charge of a "kangaroo process"
was predictable >>>
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Creativity Refuses to Wilt in Iran
By ROBIN WRIGHT
Los Angeles Times
July 7, 2000
In a society bursting with new ideas despite religious restrictions,
filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf is a post-revolution symbol of a country where
culture is helping raise the national consciousness >>>
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San Francisco Opera Leader Recalls
By MIKE SILVERMAN
July 5, 2000, SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Lotfi Mansouri is fond of saying
that he saved countless lives over the years by making opera his profession.
Now, sadly, the world of opera is about to lose what the world of medicine
was spared. At age 71, Mansouri is just one year away from retiring as
general director of the San Francisco Opera >>>
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Chaos theory
By Ali Nikseresht
(Iran News) -- For the
past few weeks there has been talk of a paper, authored by Dr. Patrick
Clawson of the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy. This paper has become known rather
amusingly, as the "Chaos Theory" paper, among Washington DC academic/political
circles.
Briefly put, the paper advocates promoting chaos in Iran to further
US interests. The implementation of such a strategy effectively implies
actively undermining President Khatami and the reform movement >>> FULL TEXT
Congress passes Americans With No Abilities Act
Washington, DC (THE ONION) -- Tuesday Congress approved the Americans
With No Abilities Act, sweeping new legislation that provides benefits
and protection for more than 135 million talentless Americans >>> FULL TEXT
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* Why is it disturbing?
Poopak Taati writes:
I don't dispute that Jews can be spies ["Let's
face it"]. Jews, as well as Moslems and Christians have spied
in Iranian history at times and spying is never justifiable. But, what
is disturbing about the trial of Jews in Iran is whether they can get a
fair hearing >>>
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* Loyalty to one's breed
Amir Khosrow Dafari
, writes: Mr. Moallemian comes across as a politician desperate for
votes ["Let's
face it"]. His categorical support for the now-convicted spies
in Iran can not be interpreted otherwise >>>
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* Refugees, unemployment, crime and prostitution
Cyrus Raafat writes:
In the recent accusative and truly narrow-minded views expressed about
Afghan refugees, geopolitics and demographic realities that are all tied
into the economic and political interests of Iran, are being ignored >>>
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* Please, please, please
F. Kaviani writes:
Please, please, please give me a break ["Joan
of Arc"]. Let's look at everything the way they are. I like Googoosh,
her music and also those great days that Googoosh type of music was a part
of that. I also strongly believe everyone's personal life is abolutely
his or her own business. But >>>
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Academic: Positions at University of
California, Santa Barbara
The University of California, Santa Barbara, invites application for
a .50 position as Assistant Director of the Center for Middle East Studies
beginning August 15, 2000 >>>
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
Remembering your scent, wherever I saw a flower,
I smelled it and tears began to pour.
Wherever I saw a cypress in the meadow,
I kissed its feet in memory of you.
-- Rumi
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Iranians protest at German consulate
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Iranian opposition activists took
control of part of the German consulate here for five hours Friday to protest
a planned visit to Germany by Iran's president, police said. Ten unarmed
Iranians moved into the consulate's visitors room and demanded that the
visit by President Mohammad Khatami, scheduled for next week, be called
off >>> FULL TEXT
Students mark dormitory raid
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Students said Friday they will hand out flowers
in Tehran's streets and light candles to commemorate last year's bloody
raid on a university dormitory - a peaceful plan praised by a key hard-line
politician. ``I appreciate that the student groups have decided to commemorate
the anniversary in this way, which does not create any controversy,'' former
Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani said during a Friday prayer sermon
at Tehran University >>> FULL TEXT
Opposition gears up to protest against
Khatami visit
BERLIN,
July 7 (AFP) - Iranian opponents of President Mohammad Khatami are gearing
up to mount a protest demonstration of 25,000 participants for when he arrives
in Berlin Monday, Iranian opposition leaders in exile said Friday. Although
top security measures will be in force to protect the Iranian leader during
his controversial three-day visit to Germany, the chancellor's office said
Friday the authorities could not prevent peaceful protests >>>
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German government says Khatami trip still
on despite planned protests
BERLIN,
July 5 (AFP) - The German government insisted Friday that Iranian President
Mohammed Khatami's July 10-12 visit to Germany would go ahead, despite protests
by Iranian exiles and German deputies. "We do not have any indication
of a cancellation or a postponement of the visit of President Khatami,"
German government spokesman, Uwe-Karsten Heye, told AFP after a daily paper
reported Khatami was having second thoughts >>> FULL TEXT
Khatami: fighter for "Islamic democracy"
TEHRAN,
July 7 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammed Khatami, who begins an important
visit to Germany on Monday, is apparently as popular today as he was when
he was elected three years ago. But his mission to open up the Islamic republic
has been set back time and again by the regime's conservatives >>>
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Soroush and Kadivar win human rights grants
(New
York) July 4, 2000 -- Human Rights Watch today announced a diverse group
of writers from 22 countries to receive grants recognizing their courage
in the face of political persecution >>> FULL TEXT
Iran and Germany aim to strengthen their
economic ties
TEHRAN,
July 7 (AFP) - Germany, which Iranian President Mohammad Khatami visits
from Monday, wants to remain Tehran's leading supplier of goods, reversing
the decline in trade and strengthening industrial ties. Trade has been on
the downtrend since 1993, after relations soured somewhat when a German
court accused the Iranian leadership of direct involvement in the murder
of Iranian Kurdish dissidents in Germany >>> FULL TEXT
Kimiaie: High expectations
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Massoud Kimiaie is one of Iran's greatest filmmakers. But
his latest creation, "Mercede", disappointed his fans. It's not
too late >>> FULL TEXT
Historical Molla Nasredin
Tehran
(Bahar) -- Satirist Omran Salahi is working on the biography of Molla Nassredin
>>> FULL TEXT
New pop albums in Iran
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Pop singer Khashayar Etemadi has a new album out. And Farman
Fathalian has a pop album out with songs praising, yes, Imam Ali >>>
FULL TEXT
Khatibi weighing offers
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Rasoul Khati, who did not get much playing time while at
Hamburg last season, is now weighing five offers from European and Asian
teams >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Parvin after Bagheri
Tehran
(Iran daily) --Persepolis headcoach Ali Parvin is trying to get Karim Bagheri
to rejoin his oil club for next season >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Bagheri launches anti-drug use campaign
(Iran Sports Press) -- Star mid fielder, Karim Bagheri, has launched
an anti-drug public announcement campaign on Iranian airwaves in a bid to
curtail drug use among the youth in Iran >>> FULL TEXT
BBC
Googoosh press conference (in detail)
Pop star Googoosh held a press conference
in Toronto Thursday. Here's a more detailed excerpt (go to 40 minutes and
22 seconds) >>>
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Ashkan from Cyberiran.com writes: In honor
of Googoosh's return, I have launched "Radio Googoosh", 24 hours
of Googoosh's music, 7 days a week :-)
Beyond Iran
Kahlo Haiku
The concept is simple -- readers submit haikus
inspired by specific Frida Kahlo paintings. Each painting is then presented
along with its corresponding haiku. The results are probably the closest
we will ever come to answering the age-old question, "What was Frida
thinking?" One steely-eyed portrait confronts its viewers, "I
don't believe you / I will not look behind me / There is no monkey."
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We will confront fists with flowers.
-- Ibrahim Sheikh, student in Tehran
The Christian
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July 7, 2000
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