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A big beautiful lamb
Memoires of a sacrifice
By Mehrnaz Mahallati
October 3, 2000
The Iranian
The tall man walked firm and determined... I was staring at his foot
steps as people gave him way like Moses parting the Red Sea. It led straight
to the fig tree. In a fraction of a second the whole picture started forming
before my eyes. Now I remember. He was the butcher in my grandpa's neighborhood.
I had seen him before when I went to his shop with my grandma. "Oh,
god. Please don't let it be," I thought. I looked back. Both my cousins
had caught on to the event as well. My mouth was dry and I could not say
a word. It felt like my heart is going to break out of my chest. It was
beating so fast, I could hardly breath. Nasrin was looking down and Pari
looked lifeless >>>
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October 3, 2000
The Iranian
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Parliament rejects minister nominated by President
Khatami
BBC Persian Service
Iran's reformist dominated parliament has refused a vote of confidence
to the new Post, Telegraph and Telephone minister nominated by President
Khatami. Sima Bahrami asks Ali Zafarzadeh, a member of parliament from
Mashad why they went against President Khatami's candidate >>>
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Oil windfall shifts Iran's economy into growth mode
By Peg Mackey
LONDON, Sep 30 (Reuters) - Robust oil prices are swelling Iran's coffers
by unexpected billions -- putting the key oil producer well on the road
to economic recovery, Iran's Central Bank Governor said on Friday.
``Higher oil prices will really help us speed up investment, reduce
unemployment and accelerate our economic growth,'' Governor Mohsen Nourbakhsh
told Reuters in an interview. The Central Bank chief expects strong oil
prices to generate about $7-$8 billion of extra income for Iran this year.
That's on top of budgeted oil export earnings of $11.5 billion >>> FULL
TEXT
Threat to Parsi rite as vultures die
By Luke Harding in New Delhi
The Observer
October 1, 2000
From the outside, the Tower of Silence at the top of Bombay's prestigious
Malabar Hill appears unremarkable. The only hint of what goes on inside
are the vultures that perch on top of the whitewashed outer walls. Inside
the secret complex, surrounding a Roman-style amphitheatre, banyan and
casarina trees flourish in the tropical sun. And there are, of course,
the dead - two or three corpses most days, exposed to the elements and
left for vultures to pick clean.
But this ancient, ecologically impeccable method of disposing of the
dead, practised by India's Parsi community for hundreds of years, is under
threat >>>
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dAyi Hamid?" here's all you need to know >>>
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Simin Habibian writes: I enjoy
reading most of dAyi Hamid's articles. When I read his recent one, "Elm
behtar ast yaa servat," I felt compelled to comment on it... Iranians
are very reserved people. In the past, maybe more in the villages or small
towns, parents, especially fathers, would kiss their kids only while they
were asleep. It was not common for people to talk about their feelings
and dreams. You were considered a good kid if your head was down while
walking or talking to your parents or teachers. Married couples barely
talked about their feelings. It is said that this is why Iranian girls
have beautiful eyes, because they transfer all the feelings in their heart
to their eyes. Of course, time has changed and so has the ways to raise
the children and communicate feelings >>>
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* Being Black
Kalil writes: I
enjoyed the cartoon about saving the White hand and ignoring the Black
hands ["Discrimination"].
I am a Black man who is a Muslim born in America. Everyone knows that
Blacks were the first Muslims in America. They (Americans) beat us, chopped
our limbs, hung us, raped our women and did not allow us to read. If you
read, you lost an eye. They would not let us pray to Allah (SWT) >>>
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* Love, Beauty, and Hope
Mitra Gholam writes:
It is with a sense of great pride that I thank you on behalf of millions
of Persians around the world for your continued efforts to provide our
fellow compatriots with significant information and updates, on the well
being of our dearly beloved Googoosh...
The first time I chanced upon your site, I was in awe of the amount
of dedication my fellow Iranians had placed in creating a site that would
become an emblem of all Iranians seeking a unified front. A site filled
with Love, Beauty, and Hope >>>
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Music: Mohammad Reza Lotfi performing
in Chicago
University of Chicago Persian Cultural Society & Center for Middle
Eastern Studies Proudly Present: Live in Concert Mohammad Reza Lotfi Master
of Classical Persian Music, performing the poetry of Rumi and other Persian
poets. Date & Time: Saturday October 14 Doors open at 7:30 pm Concert
begins promptly at 8:15 pm Mandel Hall, 5706 S. University Ave, Chicago
Tickets go on sale at Reynolds Club Box Office Monday, September 25. For
tickets, call 773-702-7300; (M-F) 10 am-6 pm; (Sat) 11 am-4 pm. For more
information, call Jahan Moslehi at 773-752-8391 or email j-moslehi@uchicago.edu
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Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
I'm so close to you that I'm far apart,
So completely merged that I'm separate,
So vastly exposed that I'm concealed,
So whole and sound that I'll never be healed.
* Also see more Rumi
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Jahangard fails to get Majlis' vote of
confidence
Tehran,
Oct 3, IRNA -- Nasrollah Jahangard, the candidate proposed by President
Mohammad Khatami to head the Ministry of Post, Telegraph and Telephones
(PTT), failed on Tuesday to receive the confidence vote from Majlis >>>
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Mohajerani to quit after conservative pressure
TEHRAN,
Oct 3 (Reuters) - An Iranian reformist minister, long under siege by hardline
conservatives who consider him too liberal, has handed in his resignation
to President Mohammad Khatami, a government official told Reuters on Tuesday.
But Khatami has told Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ataollah Mohajerani
he must re-draft and moderate his 50-page resignation before it can be accepted,
said the source, who declined to be named >>> FULL TEXT
Iraq seeks Iranian air space
The Iraqi transport minister is visiting Teheran to seek permission
to use Iranian air space for regular flights to and from Moscow. Relations
between Iran and Iraq, badly strained since their eight-year war in the
1980s, have recently shown signs of a thaw >>> FULL TEXT
Iran to fight satellite programmes with
private TV network
October
2, 2000, Teheran (dpa) - Iran plans to fight foreign satellite programmes
with the establishment of a private television network, the daily Tehran
Times reported Monday. Head of state-run broadcasting, Ali Larijani, has
written a letter to the senate-like Guardian Council asking the conservative
body about the possibility of setting up a private television network, the
daily said >>> FULL TEXT
Iran in debt deal with UK
October
3, 2000. (Financial Times) -- The Export Credit Guarantee Department is
to provide cover to help exporters compete for contracts in Iran following
an agreement to write off about £20m of Iranian debt. Richard Caborn,
the first trade minister to visit Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution,
said in Tehran on Monday: "The agreement says effectively that Iran
is open for business." >>> FULL TEXT
Huge power plant projects for German firms
in Iran
October
2, 2000, Teheran (dpa) - Huge power plant projects are on the verge of finalisation
between Iran and German firms, visiting German Economics Minister Werner
Mueller said in Teheran on Monday. ``Nothing is settled yet, but I have
the feeling that especially regarding huge power plant projects we are on
the verge of finalising some accords,'' Mueller said after a meeting with
Energy Minister Bitaraf >>> FULL TEXT
New Islamic conference tackles age-old
tourist problems: money and fun
ISFAHAN, Iran, Oct 3 (AFP) - Ministers and top officials from some
two dozen Muslim nations on Tuesday opened the first-ever international
conference aimed at promoting tourism in the Islamic world. Iran is hosting
the gathering in the ancient city of Isfahan, one of its touristic showpieces,
as Muslim nations bid for a larger share of the international travel industry
whose annual revenues are estimated at around 440 billion dollars >>>
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Forty short stories in one volume
Tehran
(Hayat-e No) -- Forty short stories from the past 80 years have been brought
togther in one volume by Hassan Zolfaghari >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
"Taming of the Shrew" in Tehran
Tehran
(Aftab-e Yazd) -- Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew" will be
staged in Tehran. Haydeh Haeri will be directing >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
Darvish or Van Damme?
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Imam Sadeq University refused to screen
Ahmadreza Darvish's "Motevaled-e Ordibehesht" (Born in Ordibehesht),
claiming it has "no social value". It showed a Jean Claude Van
Damme flick instead >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
First volleyball player abroad
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Behnam Mahmoudi is the first Iranian playing volleyball
for a foreign club >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Dabeer's Gold set new record for Iran in
Olympics
Iran Sports Press -- Alireza's Gold medal win on Sunday did not
only save Iranian Wrestling from an otherwise disasterous showing at the
Sydney Olympics, but the Gold medal also set a new record for Iran in the
Olympics >>> FULL TEXT
Best, under the circumstances
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- National soccer team coaches have made the best selection
under the circumstances, says former national headcoach Mansour Pour-Heydari
>>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
BBC
Ayatollah Khamenei asks Friday prayer leaders
to be impartial
In a gathering of Friday prayer leaders, Ayatollah
Khamenei asked them to be impartial and unbiased in their sermons at friday
prayers. Sima Bahrami asks Ahmad Salamatian, Political Analyst, the implications
and reasons behind these comments >>>
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The lamb
The butcher's knife slashed my lamb's throat. Blood sprang
up and hit the fig leaves. It happened in less than a second, so why did
it seem like an eternity? It was too late now! My sheep was struggling and
trying to hang on the last breath of sweet life. His feet were tied together
with the same rope that was around his neck. But now it was all stained
with blood. Another hard slash of the knife and the head was now barely
hanging. His tongue stuck out and his lips twitched. I spotted the large
yellow teeth behind my tears. The butcher had no expression on his face.
-- Mehrnaz Mahallati
"A
big beautiful lamb"
The Iranian
October 3, 2000
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