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Heaven sent
If there were only a few more like Mrs. Sadr
By Najmeh Fakhraie
June 6, 2000
The Iranian
"Buy a candy bar lady . . . buy one please."
I feel a hand tugging on my "monto" and turn to see a kid
not older then six, dirty and dressed in rages behind me. She repeats :
"Buy one; you have to buy a candy bar." It's the same story until
I get home. I lose count of all the little peddlers I encounter.
I don't exactly know when all of this started but since I've moved here
I've seen them grow in number day by day. Who are they? Where do they come
from? Whom do they belong to? These are all unanswered questions about
the children scattered all over the city. But then there's Mrs. Sadr >>>
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Leading Majlis reformist calls for respect for human
rights
TEHRAN, June 6 (AFP) - Leading Iranian reformist Mohammad-Reza Khatami
made a swingeing attack Tuesday on the abuse of human rights in Iran, including
arbitrary arrests, torture and censorship, and called on the new parliament
to defend personal freedoms. "Unfortunately, I have to say that the
rights of the people as laid down in the constitution are not respected,
" Khatami, brother of Iran's President Mohammad Khatami, said in his
maiden speech to the reformist-dominated parliament which took office on
May 27 >>>
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Young people look for ways to beat the heat at the
beach
AMOL, Iran, June 6 (AFP) - On the shores of the Caspian Sea, the Islamic
Republic's strict social guardians are facing a tough challenge. They are
in charge of enforcing the separation of men and women on the beach, a
regulation some young Iranians are cunningly trying to skirt. On the public
and private beaches in Amol, the early June sun brings out hundreds of
Tehran's young. They grew up under the Islamic Republic and the women have
never been out in public without their headscarves. >>>
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Eating to Remember
From Persia to Casablanca: the culinary traditions of the
Middle East
By Robert Irwin
The Times Literary Supplement, London
March 31, 2000
Najmieh K. Batmanglij is an Iranian who lives in the United States,
and her cookery book, A
Taste of Persia, is suffused with a similar food-laden nostalgia. In
a prelude to a recipe for dill rice with fava beans, she recalls the old
family retainer who would appear shortly before the Persian New Year bearing
a wicker basket edged with violets and narcissi and containing Seville
oranges and smoked whitefish. >>>
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Left hook
Jews on trial
International Haftegi: The spy case at the revolutionary court
in Shiraz indicates anti-Jewish policies >>>
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Anyway
How to be Iranian
Peyvand and Shappi Khorsandi are standup comedians in England. Their
next show in London on June 17 -- titled "How to be Iranian"
-- stars "Googoosh, dinasaurs, gormay sabzee, cucumbers, engineers,
koubideh and..." >>>
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More Letters
* Iranians deserve justice too
Nariman Neyshapouri
writes: Last Sunday the news program 60 Minutes did an interview
with Ahmad
Behbehani, who is supposedly a former top Iranian intelligence officer
and dean of Iran's terrorist activities in the past. Behbehani has fled
Iran and is now in Turkey. He alleges that Iran masterminded the bombing
of Pan Am 103 which exploded over Scotland more than a decade ago...
If we are going to try anyone for the bombing of Pan Am 103, then I
DEMAND, as an Iranian citizen, that the then captain of the USS Vincennes
(his name is Rogers) be prosecuted and indicted in the International Court
of Justice at The Hague in similar fashion, for this tragedy which took
the lives of 290 innocent Iranians. Iranian people deserve justice too
>>>
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* Don't question Iranian hospitality
Dr H. Atabakksh
writes: Let us not loose perspective about the Afghan refugee issues
["Not
welcome"]... Let us now put on our objective spectacles and analyze
the situation. Iran is not an immigrant accepting country. In fact Iran
is ill prepared to even provide housing, education and work for its own
population. Some mildly optimistic accounts place the number of Iranians
unemployed at the current time well above 20% in some parts of the country.
The Afghans were accepted as refugees and will always be refugees. That
means they ultimately must be repatriated to Afghanistan to build a life
for their family and a future for their country >>>
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Lecture: Ali Dehbashi, publisher, in
New York
On Wednesday, June 7th, from 4-6 pm Iranian writer and publisher Ali
Dehbashi will be speaking at Columbia University in Room 511, Kent Hall.
Dehbashi is a noted critic, and publisher of the contemporary literary
publication "Bukhara". He is visiting the U.S. from Iran, and
this is a rare opportunity to engage in discussion on issues relating to
contemporary Iranian literature and society with a figure who is a central
actor in these fields today in Iran. The event is free and open to the
public.
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Houshmand:
Reason came forward to lecture the lovers;
Like a bandit in ambush he lay.
But he saw that their heads had no room for reason,
So bowed at their feet and went on his way.
-- Rumi
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CIA finds holes in story blaming Iran for
Lockerbie bombing: report
WASHINGTON,
June 6 (AFP) - CIA agents have found "a lot of holes" in claims
by an Iranian defector that Iran, not Libya, was behind the 1988 bombing
of a Pam Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, the Washington Post reported
Tuesday. CIA agents have been questioning Ahmad Behbahani for the past several
days in Turkey, where he is being held after defecting from Iran, a senior
US intelligence official told the newspapers >>> FULL TEXT
Iran dismisses Lockerbie bomb claim
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran's intelligence chief has dismissed
charges from an alleged defector that the Islamic Republic was behind the
1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing, the official IRNA news agency said late
Monday. Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi denied claims by the defector,
named by a U.S. television network as Ahmad Behbahani, that Iran trained
a group of Libyans to carry out the bombing of the U.S. airliner, which
killed 270 people when it exploded over Scotland >>> FULL TEXT
Report: Iran opens sea lanes to illegal
Iraqi oil
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran has opened its protected sea lanes
to dozens of tankers carrying illegal shipments of Iraqi oil in violation
of U.N. sanctions, Tuesday's Los Angeles Times reported U.S. officials as
saying >>> FULL TEXT
Reformers aim for free press, expression
TEHRAN,
June 6 (Reuters) - Iran's biggest reformist faction, estimating its strength
in the new parliament at roughly half the 290 seats, has pledged to push
back the boundaries of free expression in the Islamic Republic >>>
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Student leader arrested
TEHRAN,
June 6 (AFP) - Mahmud Shushtari, secretary of Tehran University's Islamic
Students Association, was arrested Tuesday by the university security service
and handed over to the intelligence ministry, the association said >>>
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Lawyers for Iran Jews hand in final defence
papers
TEHRAN,
June 6 (Reuters) - Lawyers for most of the Iranian Jews on trial in the
southern city of Shiraz for alleged spying for Israel handed in their final
defence statement to the Revolutionary Court on Tuesday >>> FULL
TEXT
26,000 refugees return to Afghanistan from
Iran
TEHRAN,
June 6 (AFP) - About 26,000 Afghan refugees in Iran have returned to Afghanistan
since an agreement between Tehran and the UN High Commission for Refugees
(UNHCR) took effect in early April, the interior ministry said Tuesday.
The agreement signed February 14 allowed undocumented Afghan refugees to
request asylum within six months or request to return >>> FULL
TEXT
Rohani calls for legal satellite dishes
TEHRAN,
June 5 (Reuters) - A prominent political cleric has urged Iran to finally
legalise satellite television, arguing that the Islamic Republic is capable
of defending its values from undue foreign influence. Hassan Rowhani, secretary
of the powerful Supreme National Security Council, said Iran had to open
itself up to the outside world and offer its citizens, particularly young
people, greater access to modern trends >>> FULL TEXT
Government seeks foreign oil investments
Boston, 5 June 2000 (RFE/RL) -- Iran's government seems to be making
a new push for foreign oil investment by confronting conservatives that
see outside interests as a threat. Reformers may see their recent victory
in parliamentary elections as a sign that it is time to act in Iran's economic
interest. RFE/RL's Michael Lelyveld reports >>> FULL TEXT
Writers mourn Golshiri
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- The Writers Association of Iran has issued a statement on
Houshang Golshiri's death. Golshiri played a major role in reviving the
association >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Film industry debate
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Film officials, filmmakers and Majlis deputies discuss whether
the movie industry needs supervision or new protective laws >>>
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Iranian plays abroad
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Iranian plays will go on stage at festivals in Spain, France
and Italy in coming weeks >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
National team practices
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- The national soccer team had its first practice session after
the Amman tournament. The team is getting ready for the international LG
Cup matches which will begin in Tehran Wednesday. Khodadad Azizi and Mehdi
Mahdavi-Kia will join the team >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Teams in Tehran
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- The national soccer teams of Egypt, South Korea and Macedonia
have arrived in Tehran for the LG Cup matches. See schedule >>>
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Big boost for Esteqlal
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- Mehdi Hashemi-Nasab has finally left Persepolis and signed
a contract with Esteqlal. The blue shirts have also signed up Samereh and
are hoping to grab Alireza Mansourian.>>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
BBC
Women in Majlis
The female representatives of the Sixth Majlis
have set up a Women's Fraction in the parliament and most of the female
MP's, mainly reformists, have enrolled in it. Promotion of women's rights
and social situation is on the agenda of this fraction. Pooneh Afshar, while
talking to Tahereh Rezazadeh, female MP from Shiraz finds out more about
the reasons behind the establishment of this fraction >>>
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Equality before the law, the protection of citizens, the
abolition of censorship and torture, freedom of the press and of expression,
a ban on arbitrary arrests, personal liberty and the rights of defendants
are among the rights which this parliament must uphold.
-- Mohammad Reza Khatami, Majlis deputy
AFP
June 6, 2000
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