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By Shokooh Mirzadegi
November 14, 2000
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Keep it the way it is
The electoral glue holds us together
By Guive Mirfendereski
November 14, 2000
The Iranian
A Presidential election determined by a national popular vote count
will also be the death knell of our so-called two-party system, as we know
it, because the majority party, presently the Democratic Party, will be
assured to a greater extent of repeated captures of the White House. There
are simply more of them, registered and breeding >>>
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6th session of Berlin Conference Trial held
BBC Persian Service
Managing Director of Iran-e Farda magazine, Ezzatollah Sahabi, and Iranian
writer, Moniroo Ravanipour, appeared in court on Tuesday to answer the
charges of undermining national security. Maria Sarsalari reports >>> LISTEN HERE
Teenage girls who fall prey to Tehran's gangs
By Chris De Bellaigue
The Independent (London)
November 13, 2000
THEY LOITER in Tehran's parks and railway terminals, fodder for the
drug and prostitution gangs that thrive in the seedier parts of the capital.
Some 900 of them have been detained by Tehran police this year alone. Each
day, an average of 45 Iranian girls run away from home, fugitives from
poverty, cruelty and social imprisonment. Too often, the fate that awaits
them is worse than the misery they left behind >>>
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Persian who may want to see a familiar chelo kababee or show their moves
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* Arrangd marriage in trouble
A battered iranian woman
writes: I am reaching out to all tose Iranian women to help me in a
very hard legal battle which I have ahead of me with my husband who has
simply thrown me out of the house.
I had one of those oversea's arrangd marriages, where my family thought
it was better for me to be married to anybody rather than remaining in
Iran and listening to constant negatvie talks behind me...
I don't have much time as the trial date is comming up soon. Please
help me with any information related to my situation >>>
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* I am considering a nose job
Md. Abdul Aleem
writes: I am writing from Bangladesh. I have read the article "Eat, sleep,
nose Job" produced by Najmeh Fakhraie. I have read before about
the boom in nasal plastic surgery among the young Iranian generation recently.
Now I have come across the name of some good plastic surgeons in Iran
while reading articles about the popular nose jobs in Iran, for example
Dr. Ali Akbar Jalali >>>
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* All those things we call "ma'naviyat"
Hamid Nazari writes:
I simply write to tell you that the variety of stories that The Iranian
Times carries is so wonderful as it keeps me in touch with the romantic,
abstract, feelings, passions, emotions, and all those things we call "ma'naviyat".
It's that and not so much the current news that drives me to click my
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Sahabi defends participation in "un-Islamic"
Berlin seminar
TEHRAN,
Nov 14 (AFP) - Iranian dissident nationalist Ezzatolah Sahabi on Tuesday
rejected charges against him for attending a controversial seminar in Berlin,
telling a court he went to the conference for the benefit of Iran. "Participating
in a conference in a country that has relations with Iran is not a crime,"
he said, quoted by the state news agency IRNA >>> FULL TEXT
Guardian council overrules law to raise
minimum marriage age
TEHRAN,
Nov 14 (AFP) - A conservative-led Iranian oversight body has ruled that
girls can still be married as young as nine with parental permission, quashing
an attempt by the reformist parliament to raise the minimum age to 15, and
18 for boys >>> FULL TEXT
Khatami says he intends to visit Cairo
"soon:" report
CAIRO,
Nov 14 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammed Khatami said in remarks published
here Tuesday that he is planning to visit Egypt "soon" for a meeting
with President Hosni Mubarak, the first such encounter since the 1979 Islamic
revolution. Khatami said he "intends to visit Cairo soon" >>>
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Iran and Iraq hold more talks
DOHA,
Nov 14 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami held talks in Qatar on
Tuesday with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's No.2, Ezzat Ibrahim, on ways
of boosting relations between the two former foes, an Iraqi source said
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Iran deploys troops near Afghan, Pakistani
borders to fight drugs flow
TEHRAN,
Nov 14 (AFP) - Iran's armed forces said Tuesday they have deployed a battalion
of troops near the eastern border with Afghanistan and Pakistan to fight
the flow of narcotics into the country >>> FULL TEXT
Khamenei's visit to Arak
TEHRAN,
Nov 14 (AFP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday
that the Palestinians will not stop at using stones in their uprising against
Israel but will be forced to take up arms >>> FULL TEXT
Chevron CEO wants US review of Iran, Libya
sanctions
LONDON,
Nov 14 (Reuters) - Chevron (NYSE:CHV - news) Chief Executive Officer David
O'Reilly on Tuesday said he wanted to see an early review of United States'
sanctions on Iran and Libya which are preventing some western oil investment
in the two countries >>> FULL TEXT
Children's film fest winners
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Winners of the children's film festival announced:
"Koodak va sarvaaz" (Child and soldier) wins top prize in familiy
feature film category >>> FULL PERESIAN TEXT
Keshavarz: Return to theater
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Veteran actor Mohammad Ali Keshavarz has
not been invloved in theater for some 20 years. Now he's thinking of directing
a play >>> FULL PERESIAN TEXT
Shajarian to sing for Payvar
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Mohammad Reza Shajarian will perform in
ceremony honoring prominent musician Faramarz Payvar >>> FULL PERESIAN
TEXT
Iranian U19 defeat Kuwait
Tehran - November 14 (Iran Sports Press) -- The Iranian National
Under 19 Football Team defeated Kuwait 3-2 on Tuesday at Shahid Shiroudi
Stadium in the Asian Under 19 Championships. Despite dominating Kuwait throughout
most of the match and enjoying a 3-0 lead until 72nd minute, Iran failed
maintain its three goal lead >>> FULL TEXT
Daei's Hertha Berlin on top
Tehran - November 13 (Iran Sports Press) -- Hertha Berlin stayed
atop the German Bundesliga thanks to the superb play of FC Schalke 04 who
managed to comeback from a 1:0 deficit in the first half to beat Bayern
Munich 3:2. Hertha who were outplayed by Bor. Dortmund fell behind early
in the match >>> FULL TEXT
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OIC invites members to support Intifadha
The nineth summit of the Organization of the
Islamic Conference ended with a declaration "inviting" members
to support the "Al-Aqsa Intifadha". Pooneh Afshar asks Edmund
Herzig, expert in Iran and the Middle East affairs in Manchester University
how effective the summit was >>>
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Final words
I really wanted, with all my heart, to finish the Oslo
peace process because I believe that if Israel and the Palestinians could
be reconciled ... the Middle East would not only be stable, which is good
for America's interests, and not just because of the oil, but the forces
of progress and reconciliation would be stronger in all countries, including
Iran.
-- Bill Clinton
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