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By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
October 10, 2000
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Distractions
"Contraband" movies & CDs make us forget real
issues
By Najmeh Fakhraie
October 10, 2000
The Iranian
Haven't seen the latest movie? The one your cousin who lives in the
States told you about? No problem. Just ask. Mornings, evenings or even
late at night. You can get anything you want from these guys. Some own
newspaper kiosks and just as you are about to pay them for a magazine they'll
say, " I've got a lot more stuff down here you might want to look
at. I've also got movies and some pretty cool music videos. I've even got
Kourosh's new song." "No thanks," I reply and I leave wondering:
who in the world is Kourosh?...
Well, I'm very very curious. I finally risk danger and ask one to show
me what he has. He takes me down into a bookstore, yells something to the
salesman and opens a door leading into a room full of boxes >>>
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Khatami wants Political Offences Bill approved
BBC Persian Service
President Khatami has stressed the need for the approval of Political
Offences Bill. He has said that the approval is one of the elements of
the constitution that needs to be implemented. Lara Petrossian interviews
Ebrahim Yazdi, General Secretary of the Freedom Movement >>>
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The 2 Lives of a Newly Minted Cleric
By Elaine Sciolino
The New York Times
October 6, 2000
TEHRAN - The black cloak was draped over his shoulders, nearly covering
his neatly pressed long gray robe. The white turban carried on a gladiola-covered
tray was placed on his head. Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem-Shirazi, one
of the most senior religious leaders in Iran, expressed confidence that
the new cleric would carry on the work of his father, a beloved senior
ayatollah from Shiraz who had died a few days before. The crowd of several
thousand cheered, "Praise be to God!" over and over.
The "bestowing of the turban," as the crowning ceremony is
called, was over in five minutes >>>
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TV signal to Iran not blocked, US-based company says
LOS ANGELES, Oct 10 (AFP) - The signal into Iran of a US-based Iranian
television station is not being blocked, contrary to the station's statements,
the carrier said Monday.
Eutelsat, one of Europe's leading satellite operators, said the signal
had been interrupted only for a few minutes for "technical reasons."
Last Thursday, Los Angeles-based National Iranian TV said its signal
had been blocked since September 30 >>>
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Boxing ring
Rah-e Kargar: First declaration from Tabarzadi's Iranian People's
Democratic Front >>>
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Kayhan: What kind of velayat are we talking about? >>>
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Anyway
Britney's Guide to Semiconductor Physics
It is a little known fact, that Ms Spears is an expert in semiconductor
physics. Not content with just singing, in the following pages, she will
guide you in the fundamentals of the vital laser components that have made
it possible to hear her super music in a digital format >>>
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Thanks to Ramin
More Letters
* Like Jews in Nazi Germany
Bahram writes:
A friend called and said Jafar Panahi's "The Circle" is only
showing for two days in a cinema in Quartier Latin in Paris. I said okay,
I will go with you.
During the movie I was suffocating from the lack of hope. Being a woman
in Iran is like being a Jew in Nazi Germany ["No
more kids stuff"].
After the movie I was so nervous I didn't eat anything. I had to drink
seven beers to be able to speek. I was ashamed of being an Iranian, especially
as an Ianian man.
I lived in Iran until 1987, so I know very well what is happening to
women but this movie is like a slap in the face. It shows you what is really
happening to them.
Ironically, the only bright light was the girl who became a prostitute.
She of all people was the hope of the film.
Thank you Mr Panahi for making such a realistic movie about women's
life in my country.
* What happened to Behrooz Nejad?
David McDonnell
writes: I have a story of one of my first martial arts instructors.
An Iranian named Behrooz Nejad. He was living here in this area from 1979
til approx 1986(?).
The story is a sad one, but interesting nonetheless. You see, Behrooz
came over with the Shah in 1979 after the revolution. He was a member of
the Shah's elite guard, tasked with the Shah's protection. After arriving
here, not needed in his former capacity, Behrooz settled in the St. Clairsville,
Ohio...
Things took a terrible turn. While on a business trip to Saudi Arabia,
Behrooz was arrested for murder. You see, in addition to the schools and
consulting work with the local sheriff's dept, Behrooz was also an arms
dealer >>>
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* Foozooli
Roozbeh writes: As
a duty to fellow Iranians, I feel I have to clarify a certain point in
dAyi Hamid's recent article: "Khob...
digeh chetori?" dAyi Hamid suggests that when Iranians ask "digeh
chetori?" five minutes after they have already once asked you "chetori?",
it is so that you will end up saying "Babaa ahhhhhhh I am not good!"
And he also points out to the valid point : "as if in the last five
minutes some new development has taken place!"
The reality though, I believe, is that when Iranians ask you "digeh
chetori?" (sometimes more that 3 or 4 times in a conversation) they
are really asking you to tell them what you haven't told them the first
time round (or the second or the third time round). This concept, namely
"konjkaavi" or to put it more bluntly "foozooli", is
common practice amongst our compatriots!
Art: Mohammad Reza Lotfi performing
in Seattle
A Night of Persian Music and Poetry with Maestro Mohammad Reza Lotfi.
Time: Saturday, October 21, 2000 at 7:30 P.M. Place: University
of Washington, Ethnic Cultural Theater, 3940 Brooklyn Avenue N.E., Seattle,
WA. Tickets: $20.00 each and is available at most of Iranian grocery
stores and restaurants. For more information please call: (425)-643-6430.
For more information about the Persian Traditional Music, Instruments,
and Maestro M. R. Lotfi please visit www.kereshmeh.com
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Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
I wrote a poem that made my love angry
At me, or at the measure of my verse.
'Tell me then,' I said, 'What should I write?'
Said she, 'Tell me, what poem could contain me?'
* Also see more Rumi
translations
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Rumi:
The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi
By Frankin D. Lewis
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Teen killed as Iran town protests for third
day
TEHRAN, Oct 10 (Reuters) - One teenager has died in three days
of demonstrations in northwest Iran over demands for better public services,
the Qods newspaper said on Tuesday. The protests broke out on Saturday in
the town of Ajabshir, 75 km (46 miles) south of the regional capital Tabriz,
over demands for better telephone services >>> FULL TEXT
Dissident student leader freed after two
days in jail
October
9, 2000, TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A dissident student leader was freed on bail
Sunday after two days in police custody apparently for launching a political
party seeking wide-ranging democratic reforms, his wife said Sunday. Heshmatollah
Tabarzadi was arrested Friday by plainclothes police immediately after the
first meeting of the newly founded Iranian People's Democratic Front, Mahbobeh
Alinaqian told The Associated Press >>> FULL TEXT
Four reformers banned from attending symposium
in Mashhad
TEHRAN,
Oct 10 (AFP) - Four prominent Iranian reformers have been banned from entering
the provincial city of Mashhad to attend a symposium on the life and work
of Ali Shariati, an early proponent of liberal Islam, the conservative Kayhan
newspaper reported Tuesday. The four, which the newspaper described as "problematic
people," were identified as Abdolkarim Sorush, Mohsen Kadivar, Hashem
Aqajari and Habibollah Peyman, were said to be unwelcome in Mashhad, because
it is an important Shiite Muslim holy sit >>> FULL TEXT
Reformist cleric tried behind closed doors
TEHRAN,
Oct 10 (AFP) - Reformist cleric Hassan Yussefi Eshkevari, accused of acting
againststate security after taking part in a Berlin seminar considered to
be anti-Islamic, has been tried in secret, press reports said Tuesday. The
reformist daily Aftab-e-Yazd said the ultra-conservative Special Court for
Clergy religious court tried him Saturday but had no information on any
verdict >>> FULL TEXT
Prosecution of independent cleric condemned
New
York, October 10, 2000 (HRW)--Human Rights Watch today condemned the Iranian
government's prosecution of a leading independent writer and religious scholar,
Hojatoleslam Hassan Youssefi Eshkevari. Eshkevari, who has been held in
solitary confinement and denied legal counsel since August 5, was tried
behind closed doors on October 7, on a variety of charges, including "being
corrupt on earth" and apostasy, which carry the death penalt >>>
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Venezuela deports woman who threw egg at
Khatami
CARACAS,
Oct 10 (AFP) - A woman arrested after attempting to throw an egg at Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami during last month's OPEC summit has been deported
to the Netherlands, according to press reports Tuesday. Laila Jazayeri,
a British national of Iranian origin, was deported from Venezuela together
with a Dutch woman, Nayere Lesari, who was with her September 27 when she
succeeded in infiltrating a gala dinner attended by Khatami and other members
of the Iranian delegation to the summit >>> FULL TEXT
Reformist culture minister Mohajerani hands
in resignation
TEHRAN,
Oct 10 (AFP) - Iran's popular reformist culture minister, Ataollah Mohajerani,
whose imminent resignation has been rumoured for weeks, has finally resigned,
a government source told AFP Tuesday, adding it had not yet been accepted.
"Mohajerani has handed in his resignation. The president has not yet
accepted it. The decision will be taken and announced within a few days,"
the source said >>> FULL TEXT
Kharrazi set to visit Iraq in bid toward
normal ties
TEHRAN,
Oct 10 (AFP) - Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi plans to visit the
Iraqi capital on Thursday, "possibly by plane", in a bid to normalise
ties 12 years after the end of their war, a ministry official said. It will
be the first such mission by an Iranian foreign minister since Ali Akbar
Velayati travelled to Iraq in November 1990 ahead of the Persian Gulf War
in which Iraqi forces were evicted from Kuwait >>> FULL TEXT
First post-revolution parade by policewomen
TEHRAN,
Oct 10 (AFP) - For the first time since the Islamic revolution of 1979,
around 100 women police officers went on parade in Tehran Monday, dressed
in black chadors and carrying sub-machine guns, in front of Iranian supremo
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The women police officers were the first to have
been trained at the police college where the parade took place >>>
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Drought causes 3.4 billion dollars in damages:
government
TEHRAN,
Oct 10 (AFP) - The drought ravaging Iran has caused 3.4 billion dollars
of damage, an interior ministry official said Monday. "The principal
losses have been in agriculture and livestock," said Ahmed Khoram,
the head of Iran's natural disasters commission >>> FULL TEXT
Italy to increase insurance cover for Iran
TEHRAN, Oct 10 Asia Pulse - Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Ugo
Intini announced here that he would strive to increase insurance cover for
Iran, reasoning that with the growth in bilateral economic cooperation the
insurance ceiling cannot remain unchanged. In a meeting with the Mines and
Metals Minister Eshaq Jahangiri on the sidelines of the 26th Tehran International
Trade Fair on Saturday, he stressed the need for using other initiatives
such as Iran's export of such products as copper and aluminum in exchange
for the goods it imports from Italy >>> FULL TEXT
Iran looking for foreign partners for LNG
projects
DOHA,
Oct 9 (Reuters) - Iran is looking for foreign partners to set up two major
liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects by 2005, a senior Iranian official
said on Monday. "We are looking for two major international groups
which can provide modern technology and take charge of marketing and shipping,"
said Ahmed Rahgozar, deputy managing director of international affairs at
National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) >>> FULL TEXT
Panahi: Show my film to Iranians
Tehran (Hayat-e No) -- Jafar Panahi hopes his award-winning film
"The Circle" will be screened in Iran itself. If it's not, it
won't be eligble for an Oscar nomination >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Bani-etemad honored in Italy
Tehran (Hayat-e No) -- Following the success of her recent films,
Rakhshan Bani-etemad has been awarded the "Peace and Freedom"
award by the governor of Tuscany >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Lalehzar's end is nothing to be proud of
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Mahmoud Ostad Mohammad, a veteran of the
Lalehzar theaters, mourns the closure of the last theater houses in this
historical district of Tehran >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Violence threat at Asian Cup looms
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - With the threat of more violence looming
in the Middle East, the Asian Cup soccer tournament intends to proceed with
its opening ceremony on Thursday. The 12-nation tournament, Asia's premier
soccer event, is the biggest sports event in Lebanon since the end of the
civil war in 1990 >>> FULL TEXT
Zivadinovic: "I'm scared of Iran"
BEIRUT, October 9 (Iran Sports Press) -- The Yugoslavian head coach
of Iraq, Milan Zivadinovic, said he fears Iran in its group games. Zivadinovic
said on Monday he is satisfied with his team but is scared of Iran. He added
Iran are a tough opponent as they have a number of 'big players' on their
team >>> FULL TEXT
Azadegan standings
Tehran October 9 (Iran Sports Press) -- Latest Azadegan League
standings: Saipa and Zobahan have taken first and second place, taking advantage
of fewer games played by Persepolis and Esteqlal >>> FULL TEXT
BBC
"Beyond Khatami"; Is it a conservative
or a reformist debate?
With seven months to go before the eighth
presidential election in Iran, a discussion dubbed, "beyond Khatami"
has become a buzz of Iranian media and political circles. Mohammad Matin
looks at the issue >>>
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Hojatoleslam Eshkevari may be facing the death penalty
for publicly expressing his independent point of view.
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