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Rumi
Diaspora
Agha Mehti
Can't keep still in one country
By Mohandes
March 17, 2000
The Iranian
"If I see that S.O.B. who convinced me to come to Canada I know
how to deal with him! Oh! I so miss being in Spain!"
This is what Agha Mehti told me in Persian last summer during my visit
to Canada. We were introduced by a mutual friend, who told him I was coming
from Europe.
Agha Mehti is a small man with a curved body and a a typical northern
Persian face. When I asked him if he was a shomali, he said: "What?
Are you kidding me?!". So, he corrected me and said he is from Tehroon!
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Art
Colorful dreams
Watercolors by Mandana Dalaei-Khojasteh
March 17, 2000
The Iranian
Mandana Dalaei-Khojasteh is an Iranian-born, New York-based artist whose
work features the dream of Persian gardens, vast meadows with colorful
flowers along with different brilliant colors of Iranian tribeswomen's
outfits and headscarves.
The inspiration for these works often originate from the themes and
metaphores of Persian literature. Her works reflect the social and cultural
contents of traditional Iranian life where the originality of dreams, thoughts
and expression has made a unique multicultural nation. >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Thirty-seven >>>
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Outlook
Guns and the bookworm
The Economist
March 17, 2000
WHENEVER Iran takes a step forward, something clutches at its heel.
Last weekend, an assailant shot Saeed Hajjarian, a political strategist
who helped to bring about reformist victories at recent elections. For
several years, Mr Hajjarian has worked behind the scenes to loosen the
country's constraints. As he approached Tehran's city council on March
12th, a group of men distracted him while two others drove towards him
on a motorbike. A gunman jumped off to fire two shots: policemen on the
spot, even though armed with machineguns, failed to arrest him. One bullet
missed, but the other lodged in Mr Hajjarian's neck. At mid-week he was
in a coma, critically ill.>>>
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Only furniture
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More Letters
* Yaar dar khaaneh
Neda X writes in reply
to Gold-Boy:
Naameye ziba va saraasar ehsaase to ra be Iranian khaandam va baraaye
tamami e ensanhaye paak va sadeghi ke az zendegi yek donya entezaar va
hezaarha aarezoo daarand geristam....
Man ham paj saale pish dorost baa hamaan afkar va ehsaasate to az Iran
khaarej shodam va mikham kami az tajrobiate khodam baraat begam. Man injaa
baa iraanihaye ziadi barkhord kardam va be jor-at meetoonam begam ke hichkodaam
az aanha ehsaase khoshbakhti nemikonnand. Aadam vaghti ke hanooz tooye
Irane hameye moshkelaate khodesh ro be vaziate jaame-e nesbat mide, amma
vaghti ke vaarede donyaye be-estelaah AZAD mishe taaze halish mishe ke
ei baaba faghat ghesmati az oon moshkelaat marboot be ouzae-ejtemaaii boodeh.
To migi tafrih nadaari. Fekr mikoni injaa tafrihe javoona chie? Unhayee
ke saalem hastand tafriheshoon Cinema, koohnavardi, safar va injoor chizast
ke dar Iran ham gheire momken nist, amma ba kamaale ta-asof bayad begam
ke tafrihe kheiliha gozarandane shab taa sobh dar disco, mast kardan va
baalaa avordaneh >>>
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Music: Persian music at Kennedy Center
You are cordially invited to attend a Persian music event at the Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC next Tuesday, March 21,
6:00 - 7:00 pm EST. This event is completely free and open to the public.
If you cannot attend the celebrations in person, you may view the event
on your home computer, live on the Internet >>>
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for a major policy announcement designed to encourage reformists in Iran.
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will make a major speech here Friday
to the American-Iranian Council, a private group based in Princeton, N.J.,
that seeks better relations with Tehran, State Department spokesman James
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Iran says U.S. export cover could help
food trade
TEHRAN,
March 15 (Reuters) - Iran said on Wednesday it was ready to buy farm goods
and medicine from the United States, but indicated that purchases were hampered
by a lack of U.S. export guarantees. ``The Americans have allowed the sale
of grain and medicine to Iran to break into a new market. In any case, we
are ready to buy at competitive prices,'' Iranian Commerce Minister Mohammad
Shariatmadari said >>> FULL TEXT
Doctors more upbeat on condition of shot
Hajjarian
TEHRAN,
March 15 (AFP) - Doctors treating shot Iranian reformist politician Said
Hajarian were more upbeat on his condition Wednesday, saying there was growing
hope he would pull through. Dr Mohammad Ghodsi, spokesman for Hajarian's
medical team, told journalists Hajarian's blood circulation was under full
control and the assistance to his breathing from a ventilator would be reduced
over the next few days >>> FULL TEXT
Author of death threat against Hajjarian
arrested: press
TEHRAN,
March 16 (AFP) - The alleged author of a death threat against leading Iranian
reformist Said Hajarian before Sunday's attempt on his life has been arrested,
a press report said Thursday, quoting a government official. The daily Kar-o
Karegar, quoting an official of the intelligence ministry, said the man
was named Ahmadi, but gave no further information >>> FULL TEXT
Author of death threat against Hajjarian
arrested: press
March
16 (Fath daily) - Ansar Hezbollah hardliners have issued what amounts to
a death threat against reformists >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Iran bows to complaints over Afghan refugee
deportations
TEHRAN,
March 16 (AFP) - Iran told representatives of refugee organisations Thursday
it would concentrate on voluntary repatriation of Afghans living in the
country, implying that a wave of deportations is over, a source with one
of the organisations told AFP. "Iran considers it a priority to implement
the agreement concluded in February" with the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees, the source said >>> FULL TEXT
Iran refuses accused Jews to choose lawyers
NEW
YORK, March 16 (AFP) - A judge in the Iranian city of Shiraz, who will preside
over the trial of 13 Jews on espionage charges, has refused to let them
choose their own lawyers, according to a Jewish advocacy group based here.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations (CPMAJO) said "the judge is insisting
on court appointed attorneys. >>> FULL TEXT
Turkmens may boost gas supply to Iran to
13 bcm/yr
ASHGABAT,
March 16 (Reuters) - Turkmenistan may ship rising volumes of natural gas
to southern neighbour Iran in coming years by boosting the annual capacity
of an existing pipeline to 13 billion cubic metres, Turkmen officials said
on Thursday. Foreign Minister Boris Shikhmuradov told reporters on the fringes
of an oil and gas conference that Turkmenistan could send up to 13 bcm of
natural gas through the Turkmen-Iran pipeline by the end of 2000 >>>
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Film reviews
Tehran
(Hamshahri) - A review of Iranian films screened in the past three months
and persisting problems >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Year book
Tehran
(Hamshahri) - Film magazine has published its year book on Iranian cinema
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Safeguard
Mr Hajjarian once predicted that if he and others at the Strategic Studies
Centre had left Mr Khatami to his own devices, he would have remained "a
bookworm in the National Library", which he directed in the mid-1990s.
As Mr Hajjarian clings to life, there is a growing demand that the president
should safeguard the spirit of the man who helped to rescue him from obscurity.
-- The Economist
March
17, 2000
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