Letters
May 30-June 2, 2000 / Khordad 10-13, 1379
Today
* The Iranian:
- Golden bridge
* Betty Mahmoody:
- Other side of the story
Previous
* Reform:
- Not so simple
* Laleh Khalili:
- Brought tears
* Jews:
- Free Iranian Jews
- The Jews owe Iranians
* Language:
- I speak Persian
* The Iranian:
- One thousand Times
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Friday,
June 2, 2000
* Golden bridge
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.
Amir Shirazi
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* Other side of the story
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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East Syracuse
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Thursday
June 1, 2000
* Not so simple
I'm way too busy to write a detailed reply to Farzaneh Roudi's piece
["Numbers
don't lie"]. It is amazing how many of our intellectuals try so
hard to "make sense" of something so complicated and multi-dimensional
with a short and easy answer often with attention to one or two aspects.
There's no question that the "reform movement" ( I don't necessary
agree with that term either ) has benefited greatly from the support it
gets from the youth, but there are so many other angles and twists to this
phenomenon that trying to establish clues or reasons behind it with such
simple explanations in 100-200 words is a injustice. I Honestly wish it
was as simple as she put it, but it just aint.
P.M.
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* One thousand Times
In a few days you will publish your 1000th edition of The Iranian
Times. Any celebrations or special programs? Send us some interesting
back issues, like the first edition or... Either way I would like to be
the first to congratulate you for wasting your time and your life for the
benefit of the rest of us.
Masoud Modaress
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Wednesday
May 31, 2000
* I speak Persian
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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Pargol Saati
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* Brought tears
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.
Maha Fahmy
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Tuesday
May 30, 2000
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* The Jews owe Iranians
Indeed the Jews owe their lives to Iranians for all times ["Ups and
(mostly) down"]. The ten tribes of Israel were all destroyed at
the hands of the Assyrians. The remaining two tribes of Judae were also
imprisoned in Babylon and would eventually have been destroyed by Babylonians.
It was Cyrus the Great who liberated the Jews from Babylon and even gave
them money to return to Jerusalem and build their temples.
Iran has been a safe haven not only for Jews but also for Armenians
who fled the Turkish massacre. The Iranian people have been more generous
and kind than all the other people in the Middle East. The few Jews in
Syria live under house arrest.
I simply cannot understand why these people recently have malignant
dispositions towards Iranians. It's most probably that they feel Iran slowly
might beocme a powerful country and since the Jews are hysterically paranoid
people they cannot tolerate that there might possibly be even a slight
threat emanating from Iran.
If they have suffered in Iran after the revolution they have not been
the only ones. Again let it be said loud and clear that Jews owe us their
lives, their children' lives and their childrens' children's lives for
all eternity whether they like it or not.
Mohammad Ali Yamini
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Monday
May 29, 2000
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