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June 15, 2000
The Iranian
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Email
Buried ashes
Email to an old classmate
By Sheema Kalbasi
June 15, 2000
The Iranian
Maryam and I were classmates in Iran. She and her parents had lived
abroad for years and after the revolution they left for the U.S... Years
went by and my great grandmother -- my little green-eyed Bibi-jun -- passed
away. I went to Iran to pay my respect. Maryam and I had always thought
about our school years in Iran and about going back to visit our past.
When I got back from my trip I send her this email to let her know how
people in Iran were calibrating the new millennium >>>
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Outlook
Flood of Iranian refugees passes through Turkey
ANKARA, June 15 (AFP) - Thousands of Iranians are fleeing their country
for political or religious reasons, passing through Turkey in the search
for refuge in the West. Metin Corabatir, spokesman of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Turkey, said that Iranians constituted
a high proportion of asylum seekers arriving in the country >>>
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Show pride in our heritage!
Iranians for International Cooperation
 For more than two decades, due to political
circumstances beyond the control of the average Iranian, Iran has been
associated in the West with various negative phenomena... As Iranians and
friends of the Iranian people, we believe that this must change. If every
Iranian professional ensured that the people around them knew of their
background and pride in that heritage, Iran would carry a very positive
association in people's minds. Thus, we have created the Iran Pride logo
>>> FULL TEXT
Left hook
Repeat Berlin
Iranian Communist Youth Organization: Warning on President Khatami's
planned trip to Germany: Berlin-conference protests will be repeated >>> FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
Anyway
Shaahkaar
Would you like to tell the CBS television network what you thought about
the report on 60 Minutes about the Iranian man in Turkey who claimed
to be the "former czar of Iranian state-sponsored terrorism"?
>>>
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More Letters
* Immediate public apology
Mohammad Ala, Ph.D.,
writes to CBS television's "60 Minutes" producer:
Dear Mr. Hewitt,
I am writing this letter to protest the biased and inaccurate reporting
concerning of an individual (an alleged Iranian spy) who was interviewed
on a recent "60 Minutes" program without a background check ["Iran
Defector Talks To 60 Minutes"]. Professional journalists like
you are supposed to maintain integrity in their jobs and be independent
and responsible. Accuracy in reporting is a critical element in responsible
reporting.
CIA and FBI officials investigated that alleged Iranian spy ["Iranian
Defector Called an Impostor "]... As an Iranian, I request an
immediate public apology >>>
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* Interesting Iranian names
Mariam Nahavandi
writes: I just read your article on Iranian names ["Delband
o Delavar"]!! Very interesting. You may like to know that I have
two boys names Delavar and Sardar - Delavar is now 8 and Sardar is 7 and
when Delavar was born I wanted to give him an Iranian Farsi name and my
father chose that name and also for my second son. I have not seen or heard
their names anywhere. Everyone always comments on their names.
Film: "Surviving Paradise"
in Beverly Hills
Kamshad Kooshan's "Surviving Paradise", a multi-cultural adventure/drama
for the whole family, will be released on Friday June 30th. The film starring
Shohreh Aghdashloo, will be shown at the Laemmle Music Hall 3 (9036 Wilshire
Blvd, Beverly Hills, California). For show times call (310) 274 6869 >>> MORE DETAILS
Books & Music from Iran
Check our fourteen new books from Iran including an authoritative history
of the Achamenid empire, writings by leading reformists, Forough Farrokhzad's
complete works, exquisite books of classical poetry with miniatures, Manichaean
psalms and more! >>>
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New music albums
* Taherzadeh, Manochehr: Aakharin
barg * Eyvazi, Mohammad Reza. : Rangin
kamaan * Banan.: Shaakh-e
gol (2) * Ta'rif, Sadiq: Maah
baanoo * Lachini, Fariborz: Paaeez-e
talaaee ... >>>
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
Fear this murderous conflagration, this love that sets fires alight.
Fear this arrow of destruction, this blade that will pare you away.
And when he comes to you, a renunciate, repentant and contrite,
Fear that day that he repents, fear the very day.
-- Rumi
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Student leader summoned
June
15, 2000 (The Public Relations of the Islamic Association of University
Students and Alumni) -- Mr. Heshmatollah Tabarzadi is summoned to court!
Mr. Hesmatollah Tabarzadi, the Secretary General of the Islamic Association
of University Students and Alumni [of Iran], has been charged and summoned
to court at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 19, 2000, by the 26th branch of the
revolutionary court >>> FULL TEXT
Tehran to hold second round of elections
June 30
TEHRAN,
June 15 (AFP) - The second round of elections for two of the capital's seats
in the parliament will take place June 30, more than four months after the
first round of voting, Iranian television said Thursday >>> FULL
TEXT
Tehran radio reports clash with MKO inside
Iran
TEHRAN,
June 15 (AFP) - Iranian forces clashed late Wednesday with the armed opposition
People's Mujahadeen just inside the border with Iraq, Tehran radio reported
Thursday >>> FULL TEXT
Iran makes huge drug seizure, arrests 176
smugglers
TEHRAN,
June 15 (AFP) - Nearly two tonnes of morphine-based drugs have been seized
and 176 smugglers arrested in the central Iranian Province of Yazd, the
official IRNA news agency said Wednesday >>> FULL TEXT
Crime on rise along Iran-Afghanistan border
TEHRAN,
June 15 (AFP) - Crime, including kidnappings, is on the rise in Khorassan,
an Iranian province along the border with Afghanistan and a major crossing-point
in the international drug trade, residents say >>> FULL TEXT
Indonesian president visits Iran in hopes
of increasing trade
TEHRAN,
June 15 (AFP) - Indonesian President Abdurrhahman Wahid arrived here Thursday
for a one-day visit aimed at cementing relations between Tehran and Jakarta
which are strong on the political and cultural side but economically weak
>>> FULL TEXT
Reza Badiyi: An Iranian in Hollywood
(Iranian Heritage) -- An interview with Reza Badiyi, who has directed
400 TV shows in the U.S., including "Mission Impossible", "NYPD",
"Buffy the vampire slayer", "La Femme Nikita" and >>>
FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Rahmanian: Stage more plays abroad
Tehran
(Bahar) -- Mohammad Rahmanian, the director of the critically-acclaimed
"Majles Naameh" has returned from the Ukraine where the play was
performed at a theater festival. He talks about how he hopes more Iranian
plays will be staged abroad >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Ahmadi on poetry
Tehran
(Bahar) -- Ahmad Reza Ahmadi's has been writing poetry for forty years.
Fellow poets will honor him in a special meeting which will also include
a debate about Ahmadi's work. Ahmadi also tells Bahar what he thinks about
post-revolutionary poetry >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Esteghlal and Bahman lock horns
(Iran Sports Press) -- Esteghlal and Bahman will look horns in
the Hazfi (elimination) Cup on Friday in Azadi Stadium >>> FULL
TEXT
IFF: Hasheminasab is free to sign with
any club
(Iran Sports Press) -- The Iranian Football Federation said on
Thursday in a letter to the management of Persepolis Football Club that
Mehdi Hasheminasab is free to sign with any other club... The response by
IFF comes after the management of Persepolis requested to the IFF that Hasheminasab
not be allowed to sign with any other club as his contract with the club
was still valid >>> FULL TEXT
Iranian under-17 prepares for qualifiers
The Iranian Under 17 National Team is currently preparing for the
start of the Asian Under 17 Championship qualifiers to be held in Tehran
from June 23 to July 1 >>> FULL TEXT
BBC
Exporting doctors
An Iranian Health Ministry official has announced
that unemployed Iranian medical doctors including GP and specialists will
be sent abroad to work. Sima Bahrami has talked with Dr. Hormoz Massoumi
>>> LISTEN HERE
BBC Persian
Service
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Victimization
History shows again and again that victims of racism can
become so self-regarding that they feel no responsibilities to anyone outside
their own group. As Maya Angelou wrote in her autobiography: "Oh, the
holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can
find not only sanctity but safety in the state of victimization." Once
you have acquired this status, you can do no wrong, or the wrong that you
do can always be excused because you are, after all, one of the oppressed.
-- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, South African activist.
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