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Breaking the rules
Believe it or not, Iranian youth party hard
Written & photogrpahed by Dokhi Fassihian
March 13, 2000
The Iranian
Yesterday's assassination attempt against Saeed Hajjarian, a pro-Khatami
newspaper publisher, was a shocking reminder that Iran's conservative hardliners
will resort to any means to try to stop the movement toward a more open
and liberal society. But, as this feature clearly shows, Iranian society
is going through fundamental changes, regardless of what the extremists
expect the Islamic Republic to be.
For Iranians who have lived abroad for years, it takes many trips back
to the homeland to fully understand the social scene there. Iran is a country
still ruled by Islamic law, where socializing of unrelated members of the
opposite sex is technichally illegal and harshly punished. Even the father
of Iran's revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini once declared, "There is
no fun in Islam."
But Iran is also a country of sophisticated subtlety and even deception;
nothing in Iran is what meets the eye. Iranians have proven Khomeini wrong,
that in fact there can be fun in Islam and more certainly, there is much
fun in Iran >>>
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Outlook
Shooting Leaves Iranian Reformist Seriously Hurt
Attack comes just weeks after religious hard- liners were
humiliated in national parliamentary elections.
By JOHN DANISZEWSKI
Los Angeles Times
March 13, 2000
 CAIRO--A would-be assassin, reportedly riding a powerful
motorcycle of a type restricted by law to police and security agents, on
Sunday shot and seriously wounded one of Iran's leading reformist politicians
and newspaper editors on a Tehran street.
The attack on Saeed Hajjarian, who friends said had been threatened
in recent weeks by apparent religious hard-liners, sent shock waves through
the Iranian political establishment just weeks after the hard-line conservative
camp was humiliated in national parliamentary elections. >>>
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More Letters
* Sikh
Zahra Mahloudji
writes: Thanks for the pictures of the women's protests ["Right
to choose"]... "mu beh taneh aadam sikh misheh".
* Passion
Kaveh writes:
Just read a note on "Shoor-e
Zendegi". A reader's opinion, yours and someone else's that you
had asked.
"Shoor" under the context used (shoor-e zendegi) would be
more appropriate to be translated as "passion": Passion for/of
life. Don't know the intent for this issue that you discussed with that
reader, but if it's for something of importance/ to be shown, I would give
more thought and would possibly go for the word "passion".
* Missing the point
Hossein Bagher Zadeh
writes: You are missing the point. The "shoor" in SHOOR-E ZENDEGI
is not felt by taste-buds. Here it means, as Neda
X wrote, fervor and enthusiasm - a completely different meaning for
the same word. A third (and somehow related to the second meaning) is the
name for one of the Persian classical musical dastgah.
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President Khatami visits Hajarian in hospital
TEHRAN,
March 13 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami rushed straight from
the airport to the bedside of prominent reformist Said Hajarian, critically
injured in a shooting, on his return from a regional tour Monday. Khatami,
accompanied by Health Minister Mohammad Farhadi, spent 10 minutes with Hajarian
and came out looking "extremely sad," journalists at the hospital
said. >>> FULL TEXT
Reformers rally behind stricken leader
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's broad reformist movement vowed on Monday
to press on with its campaign for change, undeterred by an assassin's bullet
that left one of its leading lights fighting for his life in a Tehran hospital.
In an outpouring of support for Saeed Hajjarian, one of the architects of
the movement and a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami, politicians,
clerics and newspaper editors said the shooting represented the cost of
reforming the Islamic system >>> FULL TEXT
Clinton extends 1995 sanctions against
Iran oil
WASHINGTON,
March 13 (Reuters) - President Bill Clinton on Monday extended an order
banning oil development contracts with Iran, saying Iran continues to support
``international terrorism'' and undermine Middle East peace talks >>>
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MKO claims Tehran mortar attack
NICOSIA,
March 13 (AFP) - The armed Iranian opposition Monday claimed a Tehran mortar
attack which they said targetted the command headquarters of the commander
in chief of the Revolutionary Guards, Major General Rahim Safavi >>>
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Student tells police trial of "tunnel
of terror"
TEHRAN,
March 12 (AFP) - An Iranian student told a military court trying 20 policemen
Sunday how police and vigilantes turned the corridor of his dormitory into
a "tunnel of terror" in a raid last July >>> FULL TEXT
Rafsanjani attacks Belgian probe as "counter-revolutionary"
plot
TEHRAN,
March 13 (AFP) - Iran's former president Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani denounced
a Belgian court probe into his alleged involvement in human rights abuses
as a counter-revolutionary conspiracy. >>> FULL TEXT
No more films for you!
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadegan) - Tehran City Council raises the tax on movie box office
revenues, the film producers and distributors union protests with a call
to stop movie production and distribution >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Vosoughi
Tehran
(Asr-e Azadegan) - Behrouz Vosoughi says he would love to resume his acting
career in Iran >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Kalaydar
Tehran (Iran daily) - Ever wondered whether the characters in Mahmoud
Dolatabadi's epic novel "Kalaydar" were based in reality? >>>
FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Private TV
Tehran
(Iran daily) - Iran needs a private television station, says deputy culture
minister Seyfollah Dad >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
No Daei
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) - Ali Daei will not make it to training camp in Cyprus.
But he's exected to join the national team in Syria >>> FULL TEXT
IN PERSIAN
Shut down
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) - Azadegan league matches will halt for a few weeks until
the national team players return from training camp and important matches
in Syria >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Basseh
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) - Esteqlal's boss tells Nasser Hejazi to stop criticizing
Esteqlal. Basseh digeh! >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Quote Unquote
High price
The calamity of the assassination attempt on our intellectual brother
Hajjarian was one of the prices that the reformist current must pay.
-- Mohammad Ali Abtahi, President Khatami's chief of staff
Reuters
March 13, 2000
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