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Three years later
Reformist students rally at Tehran University
By Siamak Namazi
May 22, 2000
The Iranian
Some 3000 students marked the third anniversary of President Khatami's
election at Tehran University today, listening to speeches by and chanting
slogans. Many of the slogans were directed against former President Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani. >>>
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Outlook
Keepers of the Flame
Iran's Zoroastrians
Listen here
May 21, 2000 (National Public Radio, U.S.)-- Jacki Lyden travels to
Yazd, Iran, the spiritual capital of the Zoroastrians. As early as the
7th century BC, the Prophet Zarathustra had millions of adherents in Central
Asia and Persia. The religion he inspired spread from there west to Turkey
and east to China, and the tenets of Zoroastrianism united his believers
until the rise of Islam in the 7th century AD. The Prophet Zarathustra
may have been the first person ever to preach of one God, but relatively
little is known about him today >>>
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Among the Zoroastrians
Photos by Nancy Andrews
Interviews by Jacki Lyden
The Washington Post
May 22, 2000
Zoroastrianism is a reminder of the mysterious ways of religious faith.
It was founded in Persia, probably around 7th century B.C. by the prophet
Zarathushtra, known to the Greeks as Zoroaster... When National Public
Radio reporter Jacki Lyden and Washington Post photographer Nancy Andrews
traveled to Iran in February, they found evidence both of its historic
vitality and its inexorable decline >>>
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Backing Iran
Editorial
Financial Times
May 22, 2000
The World Bank's decision to resume lending to Iran in spite of US objections
shows the extent of Iran's rehabilitation in the international community.
In the past seven years, the US had counted on support from Japan and Germany
to block new lending. Last week, it cast the sole vote against Dollars
232m of loans for two projects.
The resumption of World Bank lending is a welcome endorsement of reformist
President Mohammad Khatami, at a time when he is under intense attack from
conservative opponents >>>
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Left hook
Tehran elections
Rah-e Kargar: Protesting the cancellation of votes in Tehran
by the Council of Guardians >>>
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Anyway
Shahr-e mooshaa
Mice can be a health problem -- especially if there are 25 million of
them running around in Tehran >>>
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* Identify with Arabs or Israel?
Ramin Abhari
writes: I enjoyed reading Massoumeh Price's review of Judaism in Iran
["Ups
and (mostly) downs"]. I always thought it very interesting that
Iranians (Elamites, Medes, Persians, etc.) are one of the few ancient people
portrayed as "good guys" in the Old Testament.
Clearly religion plays an important role when identifying with one side
vs the other, and hence Islamic Iran's support for anti-Israeli causes
among Moslem Arabs. But had Saddam Hussein not invaded Kuwait and fallen
from his Arab Nationalist glory (and international support), would we Iranians
still be identifying more with the Arabs who, with very few exceptions,
all supported his atrocities against Iran? Or would we be identifying more
with Israel who, like Iran, was on the target list of Iraq's growing chemical,
biological, and nuclear weapons? I guess we will never know-- but it's
worth thinking about.
* Questionable
Kaveh Tashakori writes:
The article by Ms. Massoume Price creates a considerable amount of
room for questions ["Ups
and (mostly) downs"]. Of course Ms. Price did put a lot of effort
in preparing this article which has informative qualities to it, however
the emphasis or lack there-of on presenting history from a, as it seems
, fair point of view leads me to believe that the article deserves the
attention for additional follow-ups in opinions, the facts, and one's view
towards a people's history (in this case, people of the Jewish faith in
Iran).
Authors: Book readings, Washington DC
Tara Bahrampour, author of "To See and See Again: A Life in Iran
and America"; Persis Karim, co-editor of "A World Between: Poems,
Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans"; and Farnoosh Moshiri,
author of "At the Wall of the Almighty", read from and discuss
their books. Place: Politics & Prose bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave.,
NW, Washington DC. Date & Time: Friday, May 26. 7 PM.
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
Remembering your lips, I kiss the ruby on my ring;
One I cannot reach, I kiss the one I can.
My hand can't touch your distant sky,
And so I bow full low and kiss the land.
-- Rumi
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Federal jury acquits Utah man of Iran trade
embargo charges
May
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of charges that he tried to break the Clinton administration trade embargo
with Iran by helping his brother export computer equipment >>>
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Remarkable hat-trick of triumphs for Iranian
cinema
CANNES,
France, May 21 (AFP) - Bahman Ghobadi and Hassan Yektapanah, joint winners
of the Cannes Film Festival's Golden Camera, along with 20-year-old Samira
Makhmalbaf, who won the Jury prize for her second film "Blackboard",
have achieved a remarkable hat-trick of triumphs for Iranian cinema >>>
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Book: Khuzestan
Tehran,
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period" has just been published. It describes the history of two main
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Building more libraries
Tehran,
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for libraries this year. It is also planning to build 400 new libraries
during the next five years >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Talebi: "Minavand will be the captain
in Jordan"
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coach of the Iranian National Football Team, said in an interview with '90
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20, 2000) while ongoing confrontation between the Council and the Interior
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Ganjis
Ganji raa zendaani kardid. Ganji-haa raa cheh mikonid?
(You imprisoned [Akbar] Ganji. What will you do with all the other Ganjis?)
-- Banner during student rally at Tehran University
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