Letters
June 5-9, 2000 / Khordad 16-20, 1379
Today
* Hoveyda:
- Disloyal to a loyal servant
* Afghans:
- Ashamed
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* Book:
- Ghesseh-haaye khoob
* Sadaf:
- Sweet & simple
* Terrorism:
- Iranians deserve justice too
* Afghans:
- Afghans are human like us
- Persians should care for themselves first
- Don't question Iranian hospitality
- Appalled and embarrassed
- Higher priority for Iranian interests
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Friday,
June 9, 2000
* Disloyal to a loyal servant
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?
F. Rafat
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* Ashamed
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.
Mani Shahrokni
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Thursday
June 8, 2000
* Ghesseh-haaye khoob
When I was a kid in Iran, this was my favorite book ["The donkey's gone"].
I think I must have read it at least fifty times. After many years I was
able to have one of my family members send it to me, and funnily enough
I was reading it about a week ago. I still enjoy it and I'm now thirty-two-years
old which doesn't quite qualify me for "Ghesseh-haaye khoob baraaye
bacheh-haaye khoob" as a bacheh!
Joonevar
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* Sweet & simple
May I tell you that I felt tears in my eyes when I read your essay ["The window"].
That was so sweet and full of Iranian feeling. I love the way you write.
It is simple, sweet and you can feel it with all of your heart. I am always
looking forward to reading more of your sweet essays.
PT
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Wednesday
June 7, 2000
* Afghans are human like us
Please be informed that just the photos of the Afghan refugees were
by me and not the introduction ["Not
welcome"]. I'm a photojournalist, I like social subjects. My main
purpose in choosing this subject was to help the Afghan refugees by showing
their pains to people all over the world.
I have no problem with the Iranian government and I live in Iran and
I'm happy about it . But I have seen the pains of these refugees and their
poor life and it is my job to reflect it. Afghan refugees are humans like
us. Nobody has shown their life in Iran but I wanted to >>>
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Ali Khaligh
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* Persians should care for themselves first
Let's not get to carried away with the treatment of Afghans in Iran
["Not
welcome"]. Iran has been one of the most hospitable countries
in the world, accepting the largest number of refugees anywhere in the
world in the last decade. This is despite the internal, external, and economic
problems that we are all familiar with.
Therefore, comparisons with Germany are a little out of place. Out of
the millions of Afghans who have been accepted withing Iranian society,
a few hundred, possibly thousands, are being returned due to unlawful entry.
These people make good subjects for Ali Khalighs' photographs, although
such scenery is not uncommon across, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Turkey
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Mehran Mirshahi
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Tuesday
June 6, 2000
* Iranians deserve justice too
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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Nariman Neyshapouri
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Monday
June 5, 2000
* Appalled and embarrassed
I am so very much appalled and embarrassed by the way that the Afgahni
people are treated in Iran ["Not
welcome"]. They work hard for very little money and help the economy
and productivity of Iran. What gives us the right to throw them back to
their country?
As Iranians, so many of us have gotten permission to live and to hold
jobs in the European countries and the U.S. within the past 20 years and
more; why shouldn't we allow our Moslem brothers to live in our country
and to build a future for their children in Iran? What happened to our
compassion?
Setareh Sharif
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* Higher priority for Iranian interests
Although I'm not against any nationalities let alone Afghanis who are
our neighbors and relegious brothers, but yes, they have taken away jobs
from Iranians in Iran, have been involved in crime, ruthless killing of
Iranians as well as Afghanis ["Not
welcome"].
At this time Iranians are struggling with unemployment, lack of food
and drugs and medical care, housing etc. All refugees In Iran, including
Iraqis and Kurds are creating problems. Iranians are hospitable but their
own interest has higher priority.
F. Rafat
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