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Women
Right to choose
First protests against mandatory hijab
Compiled by Pedram Missaghi
March 7, 2000
The Iranian
After the fall of the Pahlavi regime in February 1979, Iran's religious
leaders imposed strict rules on women's clothing in public. The following
is a chronology of women's protests in the early days along with more than
20 photographs >>>
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Women
Women's movement
A brief history 1850-2000
By Massoume Price
March 7, 2000
The Iranian
Any analysis of the women's movement in Iran is a very complicated task
and requires time and space. This very brief article is meant to provide
much needed basic information for the general public and to provide a coherent
picture of what has been happening over the last two centuries. The second
half of the nineteenth century is the beginning of fundamental structural
and ideological transformations in Iran and the start of the women's movement
that is still going on. >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Twenty-Eight >>>
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Outlook
U.S. May Lift Sanctions on 3 Iranian Exports
Allowing the sale of carpets, caviar and pistachios would
reopen doors to dialogue, officials say.
By ROBIN WRIGHT
Los Angeles Times
March 7, 2000
WASHINGTON--In what would be a groundbreaking initiative to spur rapprochement
with Iran, the Clinton administration is close to a decision to lift economic
sanctions on Iranian carpets, caviar and pistachios, U.S. officials said
Monday.
The gesture, one of several now being considered, would follow the sweeping
election victory last month by Iranian reformers, ending two decades of
domination by conservatives in Iran's parliament >>>
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Thanks to Laleh Khalili
Hamino kam daashtim
You know Anthony Robbins, right? He has sold millions of motivational
videos and books in the United States. Now his biography has been translated
in Iran >>>
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More Letters
* Redemption
Saghi Zarinkalk writes:
It's tragic enough to be young, energetic, enthusiastic, bright and
intelligent individual in Iran; just image being all that and a woman.
Imagine your day to day life of restrictions, a constant reminder of being
a second rate citizen in your own home. It's no wonder how Iranian girls
are dying to get out of the country at any price. Marrying a strange man
half way a cross the world is a ticket for FREEDOM! It's not necessarily
about marriage; it's about recovering from a lifetime of destitute and
faded dreams. It's about gaining their basic rights as human beings first,
not as married wives. It's about redemption! >>>
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* Bombay hostages
Shirin Bazleh writes:
How about this for a story: Because of a dispute between Iran, Britain,
and Afghanistan (the siege of Kabul), a whole bunch of Iranian businessmen
and merchants were taken hostage and shipped to Bombay sometime in 1850s.
By the time the ship got there, the dispute was over, so they freed the
hostages in Bombay.
My great great grandfather was one of them. There was no such thing
as POW exchange, etc. So, many of them stayed there and that's how my dad's
family ended up in Burma. I'm taking dad to Burma next week. He hasn't
been there in 58 years!
We found the street he lived on in the city map. I'm going to find out
more about the history of the Iranian community there. Dad is very excited,
so am I.
Noruz: Bazaar in Irvine
Child Foundation PRESENTS 2nd Annual Persian New Year (Noruz) Bazaar
in Irvine, California. Choose from variety of authentic pastries, sweets,
nuts, flowers, candles and goldfish as well as exquisite gifts for family,
friends, and children. Best of all come and have fun and get in the mood
for the New Year. DATE: Sunday March 12, 2000. TIME: 12:00 P.M. to 6:00
P.M. LOCATION: Hilton Hotel in Irvine (across from John Wayne Airport)
ADMISSION: Free. INFORMATION: (949) 580-1162. Child Foundation is a non-profit
organization dedicated to providing education, medical help and food to
orphans and needy talented children.
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Books & Music from Iran
This week's new books from Iran include a fascinating history of the
Iranian students confederation from 1953 to 1979, Simin Behbahani collected
works,a critique of fascism in Iran by leading reform columnist Akbar Ganji
, and >>>
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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
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Judge vows no cover-up of police failings
in July unrest
TEHRAN,
March 7 (AFP) - A Tehran military court judge vowed Tuesday there would
be no cover-up of any wrong-doing by police during the storming of a student
dorm last July which sparked the worst unrest here since the aftermath of
the 1979 revolution >>> FULL TEXT
Germany Seeks Better Iran Ties
TEHRAN, Iran In a visit aimed at strengthening ties,
Germany's foreign minister said Monday that Iran and Germany "should
look forward and not to the past" in their relations >>> FULL
TEXT
Kharrazi will not attend Arab League meeting
in Beirut
CAIRO,
March 7 (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi will not attend this
weekend's Arab League ministerial meeting in Beirut, the Arab League said
Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT
Belgium "regrets" the impact
of Rafsanjani legal case
BRUSSELS,
March 7 (AFP) - Belgium "regrets the impact" a Belgian legal case
involving Iranian President Rafsanjani has had on bilateral relations, a
government spokesman said Tuesday. But it will not interfere in a legal
enquiry opening here Tuesday. "Despite what has been written by IRNA
(the official Iranian press agency), we do not regret the opening of the
case, but rather the impact it has had on bilateral relations," >>>
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Albright reaffirms US fears over Iran nukes,
terrorism
PRAGUE,
March 7 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said Tuesday she
backs dialogue with Iran after its recent ballots, but reaffirmed US fears
over Tehran's backing of terrorism and plans to acquire nuclear arms. Speaking
in Prague, she meanwhile thanked Czech authorities for a pledge not to sell
sensitive technology to an Iranian nuclear power plant which the West fears
could be diverted to non-civilian ends >>> FULL TEXT
Iran sells off 85% of carmaker
6
March 2000 (Financial Times) -- Iran's main state-holding company sold 85
per cent of Pars Khodro, the country's third largest car manufacturer, on
Monday in an $82m deal that will consolidate the auto industry and could
strengthen the position of France's Peugeot-Citroen grou >>> FULL
TEXT
Iran warns against hasty decision on oil
production
TEHRAN,
March 7 (AFP) - Iranian Oil Minister Bijam Namdar Zangheneh warned Tuesday
against any hasty decision by the OPEC member states over production levels
of crude oil, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported. The current rise in
prices on the world markets was transitory and OPEC members should not take
a hasty decision on fixing its production levels, he told the agency >>>
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Iran and Pakistan committed to laying gas
pipeline
TEHRAN,
March 7 (AFP) - Iran and Pakistan reaffirmed Tuesday their commitment to
construct a natural gas pipeline between them, the Iranian oil ministry
said >>> FULL TEXT
Kish
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadehan) - Forty documentary films from the past 40 years will be
screened at the Kish film festival >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Welcome
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadehan) - Kish documentary film festival a welcome development.
Commentary >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Tin man
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadegan) - "Mard-e halabi" wins the top prize in the students
theater festival >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
70 million
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) - Ali Parvin says has more or less confirmed reports that
he has gotten 70 million tomans (a year?) for his coaching at Persepolis.
He says he's actually worth 170 million >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Price is right?
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) - How much is Ali Parvin and the coaching staff at Persepolis
really worth? A commentary >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Fortuna
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) - Ali Mousavi will leave for Germany on Friday to join the
Fortuna club. He says his contract will last another two months >>>
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Lesson
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) - Abu Moslem teaches Persepolis a lesson: A lot can still
be achieved with one minute left in the match >>> FULL TEXT IN
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Dreams
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- W.B. Yeats
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