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November 21, 2000
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If I understood where she started, maybe things could change
By Kendal Sheets
November 21, 2000
The Iranian
From the pointing, I knew we were in luck. Everyone back then knew that
house. I was looking for the most famous family in Ahvaz. But that was
the old Iran. After fleeing the Iraqi bombs, the family never went back,
and sometime between then and now sold the house and that was that.
This particular doctor who built the house was loved and adored by his
patients, his students at the medical school, and his family. His greatest
accomplishment, though, was his youngest daughter >>>
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Serial killings' anniversary
BBC Persian Service
Two years after serial political killings, head of Judiciary, Ayatollah
Shahroudi, says the killing dossier in now completed and ready to be sent
to the court. Is it really completed? A question Mehdi Sharif puts to the
victims' lawyer, Nasser Zarafshan >>>
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Iranian student faction plans civil disobedience
By Geneive Abdo in Tehran
The Guardian
November 21, 2000
Leaders of sections of the Iranian national student movement, which
was largely responsible for Mohammad Khatami's rise to power, have declared
his presidency a failure and are vowing to take radical action to bring
about change >>>
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Thanks to Laleh Khalili
How Samira made the "Blackboard"
By David Straton
Variety
November 20-26, 2000
This last-minute addition to the Venice film fest is an admiring portrait
of youthful director Samira Makhmalbaf, made by her younger brother, Maysam,
and mostly filmed during the shooting of her second feature whose English
title in Cannes this year was "Blackboards," but here is consistently
referred to as "The Blackboard." >>>
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God is bald and...
... zips around in a flying saucer >>>
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Thanks to Pedram Missaghi
More Letters
* We love heroes, but...
Bardia Saeedi writes:
I read with much interest, both intellectually and emotionally, the
article by Mr. Baniasadi ["Dictators
create heroes"]... A simple question that I have is what happens
to us regular people when heroes come to our lives? What happens to us
when someone comes along and tries to carry much of the burden that we
were supposed to carry? The burden could be, and most of the time is, emotional,
intellectual and involves some action. Instead of being active participants
in the process, we become hopeful and dependent on that one hero >>> FULL
TEXT
* Mouthpiece for half-baked intellectuals
Anonymous writes: Why does The Iranian not report the
speeches and sayings of the leader of the Iranian nation (Ayatollah Khamenei)?
True or empty as his rhetoric may be (depending on your view of the current
regime), it should be publicised.
Iranian.com shouldn't serve as the mouthpiece for out of touch, half-baked
intellectuals and sub-intellectual pop culture kiddies. Please do not publish
this.
* Pontificating
Iranyar writes:
Mr. Jahanbagloo: Who are these "young intellectuals" you
seem to like so much? ["The
fourth generation"] Where are there books? Do they publish out
of L.A. or Tehran?
Your kind is a sad example of a kind of pseudo-intellectual tumor that
has been growing from the womb of Iran Khanum for a hundred years now.
The typical claim to fame: a mediocre Western education and a birthright
to bash your ancestral countrymen.
By the way where does this "monistic attitude" from Heidegger
and Marx come from? Why don't you discuss what these thinkers mean instead
of pontificating from your lofty ivory tower? But that would be too hard
on your readers.
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Police clash with youth after memorial
service
TEHRAN,
Nov 21 (AFP) - Police clashed with young people exiting a ceremony in Tehran
on Tuesday marking the second anniversary of the assassination of a nationalist
political leader and his wife, an AFP reporter said >>> FULL TEXT
Akbar Ganji calls off hunger strike: IRNA
TEHRAN,
Nov 21 (AFP) - An outspoken pro-reform Iranian journalist who said he has
been tortured in prison called off his hunger strike Tuesday, the official
IRNA news agency said. It said Akbar Ganji, jailed over articles linking
former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to the 1998 murders of several
dissidents, had agreed to end the strike but was still demanding his rights
as a prisoner >>> FULL TEXT
Judiciary drops charges against deputy
minister over August riots
Deputy
Interior Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh had been due in court Tuesday morning
to face questioning over the unrest which marred a pro-reform student conference,
leaving one person dead and dozens wounded. But the hearing was called off
and the sources told AFP that the charges against the reformist Tajzadeh,
a regular target of conservative attacks, had been dropped >>>
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Iran arrests Belgian national on spy charges
TEHRAN,
Nov 21 (AFP) - Iran has arrested an unnamed Belgian national on charges
of spying and gathering classified information, the official IRNA news agency
reported Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT
China escapes U.S. arms sanctions, Iran,
Pakistan hit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday it was
waiving sanctions against China for past missile technology transfers to
Iran and Pakistan but imposing them on these two states for receiving the
equipment. ``The U.S. side has decided to waive sanctions under U.S. law
for past Chinese assistance to missile programs in Pakistan and Iran, and
to resume certain commercial space interactions with China,'' State Department
spokesman Richard Boucher said >>> FULL TEXT
China promises not to sell missiles
BEIJING (AP) - China promised Tuesday not to sell missiles or components
to countries developing nuclear weapons, easing tensions with Washington
over long-suspected Chinese assistance to Pakistan, Iran and North Korea.
A statement, released by the Chinese Foreign Ministry (news - web sites),
was China's most explicit pledge to date on refraining from spreading missile
technology. It covered not only whole missile systems, which Beijing agreed
not to transfer two years ago, but also dual-use components that could be
used in other technologies >>> FULL TEXT
Iran giving monthly aid to 2,400 Palestinian
families
TEHRAN,
Nov 21 (AFP) - Iran is giving monthly financial aid to 2,400 Palestinian
families, including those of 200 people killed in the recent violence with
Israel, an official said Tuesday. Ali Qanbari, director of international
affairs for the Martyr's Foundation, said the families were getting money
each month but did not specify the amount, the state IRNA news agency reported
>>> FULL TEXT
Iran delegation off for Saudi to work on
security pact
TEHRAN,
Nov 21 (AFP) - An Iranian delegation left for Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for
initial work on a planned security cooperation agreement between the two
countries, the official IRNA news agency reported. The interior ministry
team is to prepare the way for the signing of the deal during a future visit
to Tehran by Saudi Interior Minister Nayaf bin Abdel Aziz, IRNA said without
specifying the date >>> FULL TEXT
Statoil signs co-operation agreement with
Iranian Oil Company: report
OSLO,
Nov 21 (AFP) - The Norwegian state-owned oil company Statoil has signed
a co-operation agreement with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), the
electronic edition of the Norwegian newspaper Stavanger Aftenbladet reported
on Tuesday. The co-operation agreement concerns four projects: exploration
in the Gulf of Oman near the Straight of Hormuz, technology related to the
liquefaction of gas, optimal use of productive capacity, and possible participation
by Statoil in exploration of the Salman oil field >>> FULL TEXT
Pitz wins Manheim jury prize
Tehran (Hambastegi) -- Rafi Pitz has won the special jury prize
for his latest film "Sanam" at the Manheim film festival >>>
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Pop singer silenced by extremists, fights
back
Tehran (Hambastegi) -- Hossein Zaman, a pop singer, writes about
how religious extremists forced the cancellation of his concert in Sari
and asks others to break their silence towards such incidents >>>
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Shajarian in Paris
Tehran
(Hambastegi) -- Mohammad Reza Shajaria, Hossein Alizadeh and other musicians
will perform in the Paris Fall Cultural festival >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
Final players for World Cup qualifiers
Tehran - November 21 (Iran Sports Press): The Iranian Football
Federation announced on Tuesday the names of 20 players that will represent
Iran at the upcoming World Cup 2002 qualifiers to be held in Tehran from
November 24-28 >>> FULL TEXT
Iran's hopes dented by Argentina
Guatemala City - November 21 (Iran Sports Press): The Iranian National
Futsal Team was defeated by Argentina 2-1 on Monday at the World Futsal
Championships. Two goals within a span of one minute in the second half
was enough to dent Iran's chances of advancing from its group >>>
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BBC
Khatami and the students
President Khatami and the students The Guardian
has reported today that reformist students in Iran have changed their mind
about supporting President Khatami in the upcoming elections. Mehdi Sharif
talks to Ali Afshari, one of the leaders of Daftar Tahkim Vahdad, the largest
student organisation in Iran >>>
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parties develop and social organisations grow ... Instead, the reform movement
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