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Realizing that Tehran is the only city you have ever loved
By Khordad
July 27, 2000
The Iranian
After 21 years, Fariba found me. Unexpectedly. Found me. In a place
I had not planned to be. In Park-e Honar. In Tehran. In Iran. Where, I
had returned. Re Turned. After an absence of 20 years, decided, unexpectedly,
to stay. Stay for a little while. Stay for an undefined length of time.
Stay for as long as it felt good, for as long as it was necessary, until
life should take me away. Away. Again >>>
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Literature
By Ahmad Shamlou
July 27, 2000
The Iranian
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Thousands mourn Shamlou
By Mehrdad Balali
TEHRAN, July 27 (Reuters) - Thousands of mourners lined the streets
of Tehran on Thursday for the funeral of Ahmad Shamlou, one of Iran's finest
poets who fell foul of the shah and grew disillusioned with the Islamic
Revolution that overthrew him.
The crowds clapped and sang nationalist songs in defiance of Iran's
religious rule as the procession, led by intellectuals and writers, passed.
It began at the hospital where Shamlou, 75, died of diabetes on Tuesday
and ended at a mosque in the north of the capital >>>
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Amnesty open letter to members of Iran's Sixth Majles
25 July 2000
The following is the text of an Open Letter from Amnesty International's
Secretary General to members of the Sixth Majles-e Shoura-ye Eslami (Islamic
Consultative Assembly)
Your Excellencies,
I am writing to you as Secretary General of Amnesty International on
the occasion of your recent election to the Sixth Majles-e Shoura-ye Eslami
(Islamic Consultative Assembly). We are greatly encouraged by the public
statements made by some of your members expressing their commitment to
defend fundamental freedoms, as well as some concrete moves to ease constraints
on freedom of expression. We hope that your term of office in the next
four years will be memorable for the advancements made in promoting a program
of legal and administrative reform enabling all the people of Iran to enjoy
to the full their internationally recognised human rights >>>
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American astronomers in Tehran
July 27, 2000 (Search for Common Ground)
-- A delegation of American astronomers is in Iran taking part in an astronomy
conference with other American scientists and their Iranian counterparts,
as well as European and Asian participants. Among the participants are
Dr. Alan Hale (co-discoverer of the Hale-Bopp Comet) and former astronaut
Bruce McCandless (co-developer of the Manned Maneuvering Unit used by Space
Shuttle astronauts during the 1980s and a deployer of the Hubble Space
Telescope in 1990), along with JPL and Goddard scientists.
This trip builds upon contacts that were made during the last Search
for Common Ground-led trip to Iran in August 1999 to view the last total
solar eclipse of the last millennium>>>
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Hassani: Dead serious
An indepth interview with Molla Hassani, Friday prayers leader of Orumiyeh,
published in Danestaniha (No2, July 2000). Hassani is frequently
depicted as an ultra-conservative caricature in the reformist press where
his sermons are reprinted without commentary. This interview is full of
outrageous quotes that will make you laugh out loud. But the sad thing
is, he's dead serious >>> PAGE (Intro)
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Iran, Iraq; what's the difference?
Iran has a new deputy prime minister, who by the way, also happens to
be Iraq's deputy prime minister >>>
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* Not very pleasant
Laurie K. writes: It
wasn't very pleasant to see a man's
foot holding down a chicken. They say that the way a country treats
its animals reflects on the way it treats its people. Example - China!!
- human rights issues?
I was disappointed to see this picture as I respect the Persian culture
and have many Persian friends for the last 20 years.
I don't understand the meaning of the picture or to what use it can
have?
* Iran not armpit of universe
Ben Bagheri writes:
Dear Kelley, I'm glad
you wrote and I'm sorry that you were exposed to the harshness of "Not
Without My Daughter"!
I saw the movie with my (then) girlfriend, Susan, back when it first
came out! We didn't know what type of message or image it contained about
Iran but I literally held my head down and ran out of the theater.
Susan and I got married in 1996 and she (who is a blonde native of Texas,
USA) went to Iran with me for a visit in the Summer of 1997. Susan loved
her treatment in Iran by my family and everyone else who came in contact
with her, but she can comment to you directly about that.
We now have an adorable 7 month old baby boy who proudly carries the
"Iranian-American" ethnic designation and we fully intend to
make sure that he learns the Persian language, visits Iran and stays in
touch with his father's cultural roots! >>>
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* Useless fashion
Sherry Sadigh writes:
I looked at Farhad's
fashion designs. It's nice but where do you think you could wear these
clothes?
Art: Shirin Neshat in London
Shirin Neshat
28 July - 3 September 2000 at the Serpentine
Gallery
Kensington Gardens London W2 3XA
"Born in Iran in 1957, Shirin Neshat studied art in the United
States and was in Los Angeles when the revolution of 1979 overtook her
country. returning for the first time in 1990, she was deeply affected
by her homeland's radical transformation. Working in photography and video
installation, her art refers to the social, cultural and religious codes
of Muslim societies in general and Iranian society in particular >>> DETAILS
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
We have no fear of bullets, or daggers,
Or shackles, or the blade against the neck.
Hotheaded, we drink the devil's drink.
Even less we fear what people think.
-- Rumi
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Italy's ENI to sign huge gas contract in
Iran
TEHRAN,
July 27 (AFP) - The Italian firm ENI is to sign a major contract Thursday
giving it rights to gas extraction in the South Pars region of the Gulf
in a deal believed to be the biggest between Iran and a foreign company
since the Islamic revolution of 1979. The deal, which puts Italy among Iran's
leading partners in the energy sector, initially covers the development
of stages (geographic zones) four and five of an eight-stage project, according
to ENI's office in Tehran >>> FULL TEXT
U.S. House passes terrorist legislation
By
JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer, WASHINGTON (AP) - The House on Tuesday
approved a measure making it easier for terrorist victims to collect damages
from nations that foster that terrorism. American courts have awarded former
hostages and families of terrorist victims multimillion-dollar judgments
against Iran and Cuba, but the administration has so far blocked the freeing
of frozen assets to those winning the suits >>> FULL TEXT
Talk of re-establishing Iran-US relations
an "insult": Khamenei
TEHRAN,
July 27 (AFP) - Calls for rapprochement with the United States are an "insult"
to the Iranian people, the country's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
said in a speech Thursday broadcast by Iranian television. "In the
current state of affairs, anything said in favour of rapprochement or negotiations
with America is an insult and betrayal of the Iranian people," said
Khamenei, who is on a tour of the northwest >>> FULL TEXT
Shah's widow visits tomb in Cairo on 20th
anniversary of his death
CAIRO,
July 27 (AFP) - Farah Diba, the widow of the last shah of Iran, visited
her husband's tomb in Cairo on Wednesday for a sober ceremony to mark the
20th anniversary of his death. Diba read the Fatiha, the first chapter of
the Muslim holy book the Koran, over the marble tomb of Muhammed Reza Pahlavi,
who died in exile in Egypt on July 27 1980, the year after he was overthrown
in Iran's Islamic Revolution.>>> FULL TEXT
Khamenei says failure of Camp David summit
is failure of US policy
TEHRAN,
July 27 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Wednesday
attributed the collapse of the Camp David peace summit to a failure of US
policy in the Middle East, state television reported. "The failure
of Camp David is not a simple event, it is the failure of American policy
in the Middle East," Khamenei said in a speech to students in the northwest
Iranian town of Meshkin-Shahr, where he has been since Monday >>>
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Malaysian firm to establish distribution
center in Iran
KUALA
LUMPUR, July 27 (AFP) - A Malaysian port operator and an Iranian company
will jointly set up a distribution centre at Iran's Shahid Rajaie Port at
Bandar Abbas, the official Bernama news agency said Thursday. Bernama said
the Port Klang Authority and Tidewater Marine Services Co. of Iran had formed
a joint venture company called Tide Klang Joint Stock Co >>> FULL
TEXT
PEN expresses sympathy for Shamlou's death
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 26, 2000 -- Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the 2,700
writers who are members of PEN American Center, we wish to express our deepest
condolence at the death of our esteemed colleague, Ahmad Shamlou, who passed
away on the evening of July 23 in his native Iran >>> FULL TEXT
Qobadi on his Cannes-winner
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- Bahman Qobadi talks about the international success of his
film "Zammani baraa-ye masti-ye asb-haa" (Time for drunken horses),
which won an award at Cannes this year. "I don't make films for festivals,"
he says >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Kurds rush to see first film in Kurdish
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- "Zammani baraa-ye masti-ye asb-haa" (Time for drunken
horses) is the first film in Kurdish shown in Iranian theaters. Kurdish
audiences apprecite that. Theaters have been packed in Sanandaj, Saqqez
and Baneh >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Good gripping book
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Mohammad Reza Pour-Jafari's novel "Saa-at-e gorg o
mish" is a gripping novel about a man who is condemned to death but
his time of execution is unclear >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Minavand plays against Israeli team
VIENNA, July 26: Mehrdad Minavand played a the full match for his
Austrain soccer team Sturm Graz against Israel's Happoel Tel Aviv in Vienna.
This is the first time an Iranian athlete in known to have played against
an Israeli team since the 1979 revolution. Minavand is a member of the Iranian
national team >>> GO TO REPORT
Persepolis to be taken over by Foundation
for underprivileged
TEHERAN,
July 25 (AFP) - Cash-strapped Iranian first division giants Pirouzi (Persepolis)
are being taken over by a state-run foundation for under-privileged people
and an Islamic propaganda organisation, local agency IRNA reported here
Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT
Iranian youth ninth in Asian basketball
KUALA LAMPUR, July 26 (Iran Sports Press) -- The Iranian
U20 Basketball defeated Lebanon for the second time in the Asian Youth Basketball
Championships to clinch ninth place. The Iranian team defeated Lebanon 77-60.
Iran depart the Championship with 5 victories and two losses. Iran's performance
at this year's Championship was disappointing as Iran had managed fifth
place at the 1999 Championship.
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Review of the performance of the outgoing
Iranian parliament >>>
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Shamlou's children
The crowds clapped and sang nationalist songs in defiance
of Iran's religious rule as the procession, led by intellectuals and writers,
passed. It began at the hospital where Shamlou, 75, died of diabetes on
Tuesday and ended at a mosque in the north of the capital. ``Iran, the treasured
land. I am willing to be sacrificed for the pure soil of my homeland'' youths
chanted, fists raised.
-- Reuters
July 27, 2000
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