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Opinion
Long way to go
Minority status and discrimination
By Poopak Taati
June 9, 2000
The Iranian
Many of us have asked ourselves questions such as how could Iranians
living in the U.S. organize a lobbying force? Or how could they fight discrimination?
These questions have a tendency to bypass the essential analysis of whether
such organizations are needed at all. Should we have an anti-discrimination
organization simply because every other ethnic group has established one?
Is there a need for us to have a lobbying organization? If so, why? What
could we accomplish with such organizations? >>>
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Outlook
Iranian Radicalism Said to Be Waning As Reform Spreads
By Howard Schneider
Washington Pos
June 9, 2000
CAIRO Although the U.S. government still regards it as the
world's "most active state sponsor of terrorism," Iran appears
to have moderated its radical behavior in the last three years as its domestic
reform movement has grown increasingly influential.
Evidence is accumulating that official tolerance and backing for terrorist
activities abroad have been waning since the 1997 election of reformist
President Mohammed Khatemi, according to Western diplomats and other analysts
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FULL TEXT
Thanks to Reza
Ex-pop singer beams TV signal into Iran
LOS ANGELES, June 8 (Reuters) - A former Iranian pop singer on Thursday
formally launched an independent television station beamed into Iran and
its large expatriate community in Europe, Canada and the United States.
Zia Atabay, 57, who was a teen singing sensation in Iran before the 1979
Islamic Revolution, said his 24-hour National Farsi language Iranian Television
(NITV), was already being watched by "several million people"
inside Iran on illicit satellite dishes and millions more around the world.
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Also: NITV's official web
site
Thanks to Mehran Azhar
Left hook
Mashhad protests
International Haftegi: Thousands take part in anti-government
demonstration in Mashhad >>>
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Anyway
If I go crazy...
Whenever I hear "Kryptonite" on the radio I crank up the volume
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More Letters
* Disloyal to a loyal servant
F. Rafat writes: I
wonder how Mrs. Pahlavi can justify her husband's disloyalty to his most
favorite and loyal servant ["The
fall guy"]. Did he feel that Hoveyda was also endangering the
country like Dr. Mossadegh or jailed him so that he may save himself by
sacrificing those who served him?
By the way, would it not have been better if the Shah had stayed in
the country trying to save his regime? He knew he was going to die soon
so what better than staying on? And even if he had been killed by the revolutionaries,
he would have been a martyr in the eyes of his people? Was he too scared?
* Ashamed
Mani Shahrokni writes:
I am ashamed at the way Iran treated and repatriated these poor Afghanis
["Not
welcome"]. Most of them had come to Iran as war refugees, worked
hard in the construction industry to feed their families and survive in
camps. I myself am an Iranian with a refugee background, and I am very
sensitive to this issue.
These people will probably face enormous problems back home in Afghanistan.
They are going to a country still at war. I know Iran is facing an extremely
tough economic situation, but treating these people this way is not going
to help Iran's economy or image.
One more thing: there are an estimated one million Iranian refugees
in Turkey.
Music: Showing Berlin Conference in
Washington
Featuring a videotape of "The Berlin Conference" "The
Committee to support the employees of the banned press in Iran" will
feature a videotape of "The Berlin Conference" in Washington
DC. Date: Sunday June 11, 2000. Time: 4:00 P.M. Location: Ward Building
at American University, Nebraska and Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC.
Admission: $10.00. All proceeds will be contributed to the employees of
the banned press in Iran.
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
When we're together, her face is my smiling flower;
When we're apart, it's the faith I hold in my heart.
My heart and I are at war together over her,
My heart and I each claim her as my idol.
-- Rumi
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Guardian Council overturns result, raises
fear of demonstrations
TEHRAN,
June 9 (AFP) - Iran's polls watchdog has overturned the election of a reformist
candidate in favour of his conservative rival in a southwestern city, raising
fears of protest demonstrations, the official news agency IRNA said Friday.
The Guardians Council, which is overwhelmingly conservative, quashed the
election of Rahman Karghosha in the industrial city of Arak because of numerous
complaints and discrepancies in the ballots, IRNA said >>> FULL
TEXT
UN women forum wtruggles with abortion,
sex rights
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - In the last hours of a U.N. women's
conference, delegates from 180 nations struggled on Friday to resolve controversial
issues on abortion, sexual rights and sex education for teen-agers. The
so-called Beijing-Plus-Five meeting, which began Monday, has been torn by
charges from more liberal groups that the Vatican and some Islamic countries
are trying to roll back gains for women articulated five years ago in China
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Factional make-up of new Majlis
BBC
Monitoring, source: Hamshahri -- The followings are estimates of the number
of seats held by various groups in the Majlis based on the election of the
interim Majlis presidium: Iran 's Partnership Front Party has 77 seats (30
per cent of votes), Militant Clerics Society 67 seats (27 per cent of the
votes), the right-wing faction 60 seats (20.6 per cent of votes), [Islamic]
Labour [Party] 20 seats (7.7 per cent of votes), the independent [Majlis
deputies] 20 seats (7.7 per cent of votes), the Servants of Construction
Party 15 seats (5.6 per cent) >>> FULL TEXT
Rafsanjani condemns "western media
conspiracy" over Lockerbie revelations
TEHRAN,
June 9 (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani accused
the western media Wednesday of being behind the "repugnant story"
of an Iranian who claimed to have been involved in the planning of the Lockerbie
airliner bombing of 1988 >>> FULL TEXT
Cairo-Tehran ties still not thawed
June
8, CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Only a handful of the hundreds of tourists who flock
daily to the 19th century Al-Rifa'i mosque in the Medieval part of Cairo
bother to step inside the remote room housing the tomb of Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi. The scarcely visited white marble tomb, the final resting place
of the deposed shah of Iran , also is a monument to two decades of the poisoned
relations between Egypt and Iran >>> FULL TEXT
Transport and trade in oil and gas top
ECO summit agenda
TEHRAN,
June 9 (AFP) - The Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) summit which
starts here Saturday is expected to come up with a framework agreement on
"means of transport and exchange of energy resources" between
member countries, the IRNA news agency reported Friday >>> FULL
TEXT
Fans' tribute to Golshiri
Tehran
(Bahar) -- Special report on funeral procession by thousands of fans paying
their respect to Houshang Golshiri >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Pouri Banaie can start acting again
Tehran
(Bahar) -- Pouri Banaie say authorities have said they have no objections
to the resumption of her acting career. Also, Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's documentary
on veteran actress Iran Daftari has been screened after a five-year ban
>>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Makhmalbaf on Iranian cinema
Tehran
(Bahar) -- Interview with Mohsen Makhmalbaf on the state of Iranian cinema.
He says the film industry is in need of reform, just like the society itself
>>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Iran beats Macedonia, takes third place
(Iran Sports Press) -- With video: The Iranian National Team clinched
third place at the LG Cup on Friday after defeating Macedonia 3-1. Iran,
who had suffered a undeserved loss in penalty kick shoot outs to Egypt in
the semi-final game, managed to dominate the game and defeat the Macedonians
>>> FULL TEXT
Daei and Azizi: "Younger players did
well"
(Iran Sports Press) -- With video: In an interview with "We,
You and Sports" program on Thursday, hosted by IRIB's Khiyabani, Iran
star strikers Ali Daei and Khodadad Azizi discussed the present state of
the Iranian National Team and their thoughts on the upcoming Asian Cup in
Lebanon >>> FULL TEXT
Tribute to Iranian football
(Iran Sports Press) -- With video: In past twenty years four goals
stand out as the most significant in Iran's football history. While other
goals and goal scorers are also valuable, four goals propelled Iranian football
into a new and brighter era >>> FULL TEXT
BBC
Overturning Majlis results
Iranian Interior Ministry has objected to
the Guardian Council's decision to annul 31 ballot boxes in Arak constituency,
which resulted in replacement of a reformist candidate by a conservative
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Organizations which can gain legitimacy are those that
can successfully articulate the interests of Iranian Americans, but also
demonstrate a deep understanding of American values and its political and
social institutions.
-- Poopak Taati
"Long
way to go"
The Iranian
June 9, 2000
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