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By Ali Hosseini
June 27, 2000
The Iranian
The office was actually a warehouse. A middle-aged man in worn-out overalls
met me at the door. He gazed at me for a few seconds, then pushed aside
the tools that were on the top of a table, spat in the trash can, and put
an application form in front of me. While I was filling out the application,
I saw him spit a few more times, wiping his mouth with the palm of his
hand. I felt uneasy. When I handed him the application, I realized that
the side of his lower jaw was a little puffed up, and when he spat a viscous
brownish liquid came out of the corner of his mouth. I thought the poor
man must have a toothache. It reminded me of back home in the village and
the dark brown plant root used to ease a pain.
"Mr. Hoss... Hooss...?"
"Just call me Ali." >>>
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Protest in Islamshahr
BBC Persian Service report on protests near Tehran where a large number
people have protested at the poor living conditions (go to 24 minutes and
12 seonds) >>>
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Khatami demands stop to press crackdown
BBC Persian Service political analysit Sadeq Saba discusses the latest
dispute in the Iranian leadership regarding the extent of the freedom of
the press, including President Khatami's attack on the latest newspaper
ban and Ayatollah Khamenei's declaration backing the judiciary's actions
(go to five minutes and 10 seconds) >>>
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Rafsanjani clan's Saudi ties
In it last issue (June 25) before it was shut down, Bayan newspaper
carried a cloumn criticizing Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani's business ties
with the Saudi royal family >>>
FULL TEXT
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Left hook
Golshiri
Rah-e Kargar: A report on a meeting in Sweden honoring the late
writer Houshang Golshiri, including a short documentary made recently about
his life >>>
FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Anyway
Bantu tribesman uses IBM modem to crush nut
Kabinda, Zaire (THE ONION) -- In a move IBM officials are hailing as
a major step in the company's ongoing worldwide telecommunications revolution,
M'wana Ndeti, a member of Zaire's Bantu tribe, used an IBM global uplink
network modem to crush a nut Monday >>>
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with insignificant complaints such as yours.
While you waste time complaining about racy photos offending Iranian
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* We all need reassurances
AT writes:
Thank you, Najmeh, for all the great articles you write for The Iranian.
In particular, "Tehran's
good side" proved so refreshing, especially after having read
a recent article ["Buried
ashes"].
You (and Abraham Lincoln) are right, plus, sadly enough, some Iranians
abroad seem to get stuck in a "state of denial" no matter how
much Iran improves.
They don't see anything positive about Iran, in apparently an unconscious
attempt to convince themselves over and over that choosing to live outside
Iran has been the right thing to do. We all need reassurances sometimes.
* Origin of Iryan
Guive Mirfendereski writes:
In reply to the question
about the origin of the name Iryan, I believe it is derived from the name
Ir or Iri, which as I recall is the name of a tribe or a branch of Aryans
that arrived in the plateau that now bears the name of Iran.
I have no source for this other than a faint recollection from a seventh
grade geography class in Tehran in the early 1960's. I believe some of
the seventh, eighth and nineth grade Iranian geogrpaphy books of the epoch
may provide a better answer.
Conference: Cinema and the Middle East
The second conference on "Cinema and the Middle East" will
be held in connection with the Seventh Congress of the German Middle East
Studies Association (DAVO) on October 11-12, 2000. The Interdisciplinary
Research Network "Cinema and the Middle East" An interdisciplinary
research network has been established by the Centre for Research on the
Arab World (CERAW) at the University of Mainz, Germany >>>
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
What can I do, my love? I'm in love with your face.
Your beautiful eyes make me shy, what can I do?
Each and every moment, passion rises, peaks, flows,
And I haven't a clue about what to do, God knows.
-- Rumi
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Khamenei sacks head of national police
TEHRAN,
June 28 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has sacked
the hardline national police chief, the man held responsible by the powerful
reform movement bloody unrest last July. The official IRNA news agency said
on Wednesday Khamenei had ordered the removal of Brigadier General Hedayat
Lotfian as head of law enforcement forces. Brigadier General Mohammad Baqer
Qalibaf, of the elite Revolutionary Guards air force, was appointed in his
place >>> FULL TEXT
Rahami, Ebadi receive arrest warrants
Tehran,
June 28, IRNA -- Tehran's Public Court here on Wednesday afternoon issued
arrest warrant for two reformist lawyers Mohsen Rahami and Shirin Ebadi
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Riot squad moves in to break up demonstration
TEHRAN,
June 27 (AFP) - Some 3000 women burned tires and blocked a main road southwest
of Tehran Tuesday in protest at poor living conditions >>> FULL
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Pressure for free press
TEHRAN, Iran Iran's supreme leader urged the conservative
judiciary Tuesday not to yield to reformist pressure for greater press freedom
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Judicial chief rejects calls to end newspaper
closings
TEHRAN,
June 28 (AFP) - Iranian judicial chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi
has rejected calls from parliament to stop shutting down newspapers, a response
reformers say is "unacceptable." >>> FULL TEXT
Shiraz court chief insists Jews don't face
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TEHRAN,
June 26 (AFP) - The head of the Shiraz judiciary insisted Monday that 13
Jews awaiting judgement there for alleged spying for Israel did not face
the death penalty >>> FULL TEXT
Jailing of Iranian woman in Virginia protested
WASHINGTON (AP) - A bipartisan group of House members is protesting
detention of an Iranian woman jailed in Virginia two months after she was
deported from Canada as a former commander of an alleged terrorist group
>>> FULL TEXT
Iraqi oil tankers impounded
CAIRO, Egypt Iranian authorities have impounded two
Iraqi tankers suspected of smuggling Iraqi oil, according to Iranian state
radio >>> FULL TEXT
Kuwait says in talks with Iran over gas-rich
border
KUWAIT,
June 27 (Reuters) - Kuwait said on Tuesday it is currently holding intensive
talks with Iran to resolve a dispute, also involving Saudi Arabia, over
oil and gas-rich areas in the northern Gulf >>> FULL TEXT
Googoosh tickets online
June
27, THE IRANIAN -- You can purchase tickets for Googoosh's first concert
in more than 20 years online >>> FULL TEXT
Box office sales double
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Box office sales for films show in Iranian theaters during
the first three months of this year are twice as much as the same period
last year (no mention whether ticket price was a factor) >>> FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
Pop star on music in today's Iran
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- Khashayar Etemadi is a one of the most popular Pop singers
in Iran today. An interview >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Saedi: Another look
Tehran
(Bahar) -- A new look at the work of Gholam-Hossein Saedi >>> FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
Azizi chosen to play in U.S. All-Stars
New
York, June 28, IRNA -- Iranian veteran striker Khodadad Azizi was chosen
by the West Americans to play in the United States 'All-Stars' game >>>
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Iranian U-17 defeat Lebanon too
(Iran Sports Press) -- With video: The Iranian Under 17 National
Football Team defeated Lebanon 2-0 in their third qualifying game for the
Asian Youth Championships to be held in Vietnam in November >>>
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Big changes for Persepolis
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) -- An important announcement about the future of Persepolis
soccer club is expected within days. The club may form a partnership with
another organization to improve its financial situation >>> FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
Ali Karimi on Furbal Mundial
Futbol Mundial will feature Iranian star Ali Karimi this week.
For more information on the show Futbol Mundial's programme #338 is on Sky
Sports in the UK and Fox Sports World <www.soccerTV.com> in North
America >>> FULL TEXT
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What is it like to be a young person in Qom?
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on the population's freedoms and legitimate rights ... and as far as newspapers
are concerned, nobody can defend a violation but the problem rests on methods
as they must be legal.
-- President Khatami
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