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Refugees
Not welcome
Afghan refugees being sent back to Afghanistan
Photos by Ali Khaligh
June 2, 2000
The Iranian
Imagine Germany loading tens of thousands of Iranian refugees onto buses
and sending them back to Iran. Of course, it would never happen. The international
community would be outraged. Germany would be accused of racism and intolerance.
So does anyone have a good reason why Afghans have to be expelled from
Iran? Are Afghans taking away jobs from Iranians? Are many of them involved
in crime? Aren't these the same excuses Western countries use against undesirable
refugees? What happened to that Persian hospitality we always brag about?
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Outlook
Rock Rolls Once More in Iran
As Hard-Liners Back Pop Revival
By Daneil Pearl
The Wall Street Journal
June 2, 2000
TEHRAN, Iran -- In a basement studio here, Iranian pop singer Alireza
Assar and his crew are mixing their latest rock ballad. Mr. Assar's strong
solo voice rings out in Farsi, singing, "We should find love in the
rain." As the music swells, an electric guitar begins to wail, and
women's voices take up the song.
If Iran's political hard-liners ever heard this, there'd be hell to
pay, right?
Wrong. In fact, the conservatives sponsor Mr. Assar. They own this digital
recording studio, they promote his $5-a-ticket concerts, and they approve
each of his songs before its release >>>
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Thanks to Ramin Tabib
Putting promises to test
Proposed agenda for new parliament
In an open letter to the new parliament in Iran, the Iranian Human Rights
Working Group highlighted the systematic and continuous violation of human
rights in Iran and took the deputies to task on their election promises
to work for the betterment of the human rights of the Iranian people.The
group noted that on one hand "Iran is, both structurally and operationally,
amongst the worst violators of human rights in the world" and on the
other hand "the level of public awareness and demand for freedom,
democracy and human rights" amongst the Iranian people has never been
so widely pronounced >>>
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Left hook
Same difference
International Haftegi: The 2nd of Khordad followers are the same
as the Islamic radicals >>>
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* Golden bridge
Amir Shirazi writes
in reference to the upcoming 1000th issue of The Iranian Times:
I would also like to join others who have congratulated you for the
monumental goal you pursued rather single- handedly leading to such remarkable
success. A hundred sincere congratulations.
If I had enough to afford it, I would have awarded you with a small
symbolic golden bridge. You really did a great service by building a firm
and friendly bridge between all Iranian generations on this side of the
water.
* Other side of the story
East Syracuse
writes: After reading eceperts from Tara Bahrampour's book "To See
and See Again", I was wondering why someone doesn't talk to the
family and people that knew Betty Mahmoody [author of "Not Without
My Daughter"] when she supposedly was in Iran with her husband ...
I think Dr. Mahmoody was probably tired of her attitude and was going
to ship her back to the U.S. and who could blame him? Of course he wanted
to keep his daughter, he loved her, but Betty Mahmoody left the country
without permission according to what she wants everyone to believe and
soooooo I wanted to know if Dr. Mahmoody put out a warrant for her arrest
over there in Iran for kidnapping his daughter and taking her out of the
country of Iran. I really wish someone would go there and find out the
truth then write a book about it and sell it in the U.S. too so people
can read his side of the story too! >>>
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Music: Lian Ensemble performs Rumi in
Seattle
Lian Ensemble will perform a concert titled "An Exhilarating Occasion
with RUMI" on Saturday June 10, 2000 in the Carlson Theater at Bellevue
Community College in Seattle. The program starts at 7:30 p.m >>>
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
May grief and sadness come to the unfaithful heart,
And in this world may betrayal play a smaller part.
Sadness is the only friend who stays with me, still true,
And for that, loyal sadness, a thousand thanks to you.
-- Rumi
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in the Jordanian capital Amman, Syria's Yugoslav manager Bozidar Vukotic
had warned that his weakened side's only chance was to score first. They
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Karimi: The best
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World chess champ coming to Iran
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