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Opinion
Numbers don't lie
Demography holds Iran's destiny
By Farzaneh Roudi
May 31, 2000
The Iranian
The opening of the sixth Iranian parliament on May 27 has demonstrated
that popular reforms in Iran initiated by President Mohammad Khatami are
irreversible. For the first time since 1979 revolution, supporters of the
reform movement in Iran hold a solid majority in the parliament, where
the average age of the new members is 15 years younger than that of the
outgoing members.
The demographic process is pervasive. Young Iranians were responsible
for the reformers' win in the recent parliamentary elections, as they were
in the 1997 election of moderate Khatami. One-quarter of the Iranian population
is between the ages of 15 and 25. The coming of age of a huge cohort of
young Iranians living in cities in the information age is changing the
face of the Islamic Republic >>>
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U.S. Trade Initiative No Bonanza
By Howard Schneider
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, May 31, 2000
Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright may have thought she was doing
Iranians a big favor when she recently announced relaxed trade rules governing
some of their embargoed products, including caviar, pistachios and Persian
rugs, but the news has landed with a thud here in the capital of the Islamic
republic >>>
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Fatwa plan to kill Khatami
Geneive Abdo in Tehran
The Guardian (London)
Wednesday May 31, 2000
A plan to dispose of Iran's moderate president by clerically authorised
murder has been foiled. The would-be assassin was a member of the presidential
bodyguard and of the elite Revolutionary Guard who tried to convince senior
clerics to issue an edict allowing him to kill President Mohammad Khatami
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* I speak Persian
Pargol Saati writes: I
have been wondering for years why Iranians and now Americans too refer
to our language as "Farsi" using an Iranian word instead of its
English translation which is Persian ["Eenjoori
beneveeseem?"]. When speaking English, we say Germans speak German
(not Deutsch), French speak French (not Francais) and Spanish speak Spanish
(not Espagnol). Then we have Persians speaking Farsi.
I cannot understand how the Iranian word Farsi crept into English, when
they still call pesteh: pistachio; karvan: caravan; padjamak: pyjama. When
speaking English we use the English translation or equivalents, when speaking
Persian we shall use the word Farsi. Several novels which I have read lately
by Iranian women writers written in English all refer to our language as
Farsi, and they are written in English >>>
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* Brought tears
Maha Fahmy writes:
Although I am not Iranian, the three excerpts that I have read of your
journey back to Iran ["Absence"];
of the love
of an Iranian man, and the journey that got you back to them, bought
tears to my eyes. I too am of mixed heritage (half Arab, half Spanish),
born and raised in New York.
Suprisingly enough, I too avoided the gold wearing, scotch drinking,
Middle Eastern Mercedes driving doctor like the plague. I am now engaged
to a Canadian Iranian. It was only when I saw what a magical place he made
the world seem did I have the courage to return to my own roots. Thank
you for expressing what I had to find out the hard way.
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Houshmand:
There's joy in my heart--I have joined my lover tonight;
Finally free from the pain of our parting, tonight.
As I dance with my lover I pray, oh Lord, in my heart:
May the keys to morning be lost forever tonight.
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Quote Unquote
Demography
Demography ... is destiny in Iran. The young age structure,
high level of urbanization, and increasing contact with Iranians abroad
conspire against radicalism in the name of revolution.
-- Farzaneh Roudi
"Numbers
don't lie"
The Iranian
May 31, 2000
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