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Ali's nose job
His nose defied all laws of physics
By Siamack Baniameri
October 30, 2000
The Iranian
Ali's body stopped growing at the age of nineteen. However, his nose
developed a mind of its own and refused to stop growing. He looked as if
his nose was on steroid while the rest of his body suffered from malnutrition.
His nose not only continued growing at an unimaginable pace, it defied
all laws of physics, gravity, and anatomy.
When Ali walked in a room, he didn't light up the room, he actually
blocked the light. When he was younger, Ali's nose grew large but straight.
When he became a bit older, however, his nose decided to make a left turn
to check out the view. Growing tired of the view on the left side, his
nose took another detour and grew to the right for some fresh air >>>
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Elections
The best man
I would vote for Gore
By Ramin Tabibi
October 30, 2000
The Iranian
Like many of you, I have watched the preparation for the upcoming elections
with a sense of awe and befuddlement. The year-long campaign by the candidates
across such a vast territory and toward such a ethnically and politically
heterogeneous population is an experience that is unique to American society.
Nowhere else does the democratic process involve such a broad range of
electorates voting basically for only two candidates who purport to be
all things to all people.
It is after a year-long contemplation that I have decided to vote for
Al Gore, and I hope my reasons would convince some you to do the same
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Outlook
Fallahian speaks
BBC Persian Service
Former Intelligence Minister, Ali Fallahian has shed light on the mystery
of political murders in Iran. A veteran politician, Ali Akbar Moinfar and
a lawyer, Nasser Zarafshan comment on the latest episode of the mystery
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Iranian Bahais, Fleeing Religious Persecution, Find
a Refuge in Turkey
By Amberin Zaman
The Los Angeles Times
October 30, 2000
VAN, Turkey--When the prominent Iranian doctor was invited back home
last year with promises that he would no longer be persecuted for his adherence
to the Bahai faith, he resigned from a well-paid job in Saudi Arabia and
flew to Iran.
"Within six months, I was in jail," said the frail-looking
65-year-old, who now has fled across the border to eastern Turkey, as he
broke down in tears. "They fed me my own flesh." >>>
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TEHRAN, Oct 30 (AFP) - The Tehran metro has decided to maintain separate
cars for men and women to provide "better calm" for its passengers,
transport officials said Monday >>>
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More Letters
* I was a hostage in Tehran
William E. Belk writes:
You do not know me but, I am certain that you will know my name and the
small part I played back in 1979 as I was one of the 52 Americans held
as hostage by your nation. After eighteen years my thoughts are still about
the situation that we faced back then. Scared out of our wits, not sure
if we would live or die, and wondering why Iran had done such a terrible
thing >>>
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* Misguided pseudo-intellectualism
Rasoul Hajikhani
writes: This is a response to Mr. Hoveyda's recent commentary about
an incident in 1957 ["Curbing
men"]. Mr. Hoveyda makes the proposition that one man's idiotic
notions of male superiority has to do with his religious faith. He claims
that "The general was probably a practicing Muslim."
Mr. Hoveyda, "probably" is not good enough. You draw such
a grand and substantial conclusion by reading a piece of an article in
some foreign journal in 1957. What wisdom and foresight you must posses!
There are very few people in the world that can genuinely conclude that
all things stupefying could be examined in terms of a person's faith...
Shame on such person who belittles what his country and Iranians have
to offer to the world and instead chooses to rub into our faces his misguided
pseudo-intellectual prowess >>>
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* Mind your own business
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* Een kojaa o aan kojaa
Maryam writes: These
days Googoosh fever has spread all around North America and Europe. Another
kind of fever has spread around East Asia. President Khatami is visiting
Japan and everybody here is waiting to attend his speech.
This reminded me of a poem which says:
DAANEH-YE FELFEL SIYAAH O KHAAL-E MAHROOYAN SIYAAH,
HAR DO JAAN SOOZAND AMMAA, EEN KOJAA O AAN KOJAA
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Houshmand:
What good are your cries when her gaze is gone?
What good a faithful heart that's been bloodied?
When heart and soul are burnt in sorrow's pain,
What good are your words that grow life again?
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Parliament targets censors
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's reformist-dominated parliament moved
Sunday to halt a press crackdown by the country's hard-line judiciary, which
has ordered more than 30 newspapers to shut in the past six months. The
290-seat Majlis drafted a bill that would bar the judiciary from closing
newspapers on grounds that they lack its authorization to operate. Newspaper
licenses are issued by the Press Supervisory Board, but the judiciary says
publishers need its permission as well >>> FULL TEXT
Fars provincial police chief, bodyguard
shot
TEHRAN,
Oct 30 (AFP) - The police commander of Iran's Fars province and his bodyguard
were seriously wounded in an attack, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Kayhan
paper said General Hossein Zolfaghari and his bodyguard were shot several
times with an automatic weapon while trying to arrest several youths who
were stealing a car in the southern city of Shiraz >>> FULL TEXT
Revolutionary court opens trial over "anti-Islamic"
Berlin seminar
TEHRAN,
Oct 29 (AFP) - A revolutionary court on Sunday opened the closed-door trial
of several allies of President Mohammad Khatami who attended a controversial
so called "anti-Islamic" conference on reforms in Iran >>>
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Parliament requires court approval for
underage marriage
TEHRAN,
Oct 29 (AFP) - Iran's reform-majority parliament on Sunday passed a bill
that would require court approval for boys under 18 or girls under 15 to
get married, state television reported >>> FULL TEXT
Iran wants mysterious mummy from Pakistan
TEHRAN,
Oct 29 (AFP) - Iran wants Pakistan to hand over an ancient mummy recently
discovered in the Pakistani border province of Baluchistan, press reports
said here Sunday. Iranian media identified the 2,600-year-old mummy as the
remains of an Achaemenian prince although reports from Pakistan said it
was a princess who could have originated in Egypt or Iran >>> FULL
TEXT
Parliament mulls payouts to victims of
US "terrorism"
TEHRAN,
Oct 30 (AFP) - The foreign policy committee of Iran's parliament is mulling
tit-for-tat legislation that would allow victims of US "terrorism"
to sue for compensation, an MP said in Monday's press >>> FULL
TEXT
Japan agrees biggest oil operation with
Iran: report
TOKYO,
Oct 30 (AFP) - Japan and Iran have reached a basic agreement under which
Tokyo will acquire preferential rights to develop and operate an Iranian
oil field, one of the largest in the Middle East, a report said Monday
>>> FULL TEXT
Iran: Oil prices may fall sharply in 2001
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh
said he expected oil prices to fall sharply next year if current levels
of production are maintained, the Resalat newspaper reported on Saturday.
``If OPEC (news - web sites) carries on its current level of production,
oil prices will sharply fall,'' it quoted him as saying. He said this could
happen in the second and third quarter of 2001 >>> FULL TEXT
Tea growers say unregulated imports putting
industry at risk
TEHRAN,
Oct 30 (AFP) - Private tea growers in northern Iran on the Caspian Sea said
Monday their livelihoods are under threat from unregulated foreign tea imports.
"We are asking the government to protect us and to prevent various
state-owned firms from importing foreign tea," one grower said in an
interview with state television >>> FULL TEXT
Moshiri on Moshiri
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- Fereydoun Moshiri's life in his own words >>> FULL
PERSIAN TEXT
Jalili to make film
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Abolfazl Jalili is back from France and
wants to make a film based on a novel "Afghan-e koochak" >>>
FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Esmaili fort to be preserved
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Ghaleh Gerdkuh, an Esmaili fort near Damghan,
has been registerd as a national monument >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Japan win Asian Cup
Beirut - October 30: Frenchman Philippe Troussier has been running
out of superlatives to describe Japan's fabulous achievement of winning
the Asian Cup on Sunday evening, stating that "It was an honour to
lead the side to land the trophy in the Middle-East." >>>
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Farahani: "Talebi does not wish to
coach under any circumstance"
Tehran - October 30 (Iran Sports Press) -- At a press conference
on Monday, Safaee Farahani, the President of the Iranian Football Federation
discussed the reasons for the failure of the Iranian National Team at the
Asian Cup finals in Lebanon. Farahani pointed to Japan's success as a model
to follow >>> FULL TEXT
War of words on Football Show
Tehran Oct. 28 (Iran Sports Press) -- Adel Ferdousipour found
himself running for cover in a crossfire between guests of his popular football
show Football 90 on Saturday. In what turned out to be the most exciting
and watched edition of Football 90, Ferdousipour had to contain his guests
as the show turned into a 'war of words' and heated debates between Jalal
Talebi and Mehdi Mahdavikia at one end, and Safaee Farahani and Mohammad
Razmjoo at the other. "There has been a misunderstanding", Ferdousipour
was forced to say to mediate his guests >>> FULL TEXT
BBC
Reformists' strategy
The 2nd of Khordad Parliamentary Faction is
forming a committee to draw up strategy for the 2nd of Khordad Movement.
Its vice chairman, Ali Shakouri Rad has spoken of ways of promoting the
reformist political faction. Pooneh Afshar discusses the reasons for setting
up such a committee >>>
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Someday I would like to return to Iran for I never hated
you, your nation, your people or your culture. We live on a small world
that needs to be at peace with each other. Forgive me for whatever it was
I did to your people as I have forgiven you Iran.
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