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Paintings by Reza Kassai
October 16, 2000
The Iranian
Reza Kassai describes his collection of paintings, "Random Thoughts",
as child-like drawings that represent "flash thoughts about illusions,
fantasies, dreams, the subconscious, social and political issues, history,
comedy, tragedy and personal experiences."
"The main focus is to portray my feelings regarding various issues
at a particular time. Images stem from observations, news, conversations
with a neighbor or even the cognition and understanding of a five-year-old."
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Middle East
Crooked wall
Blind support for Israel undermines U.S. as peace broker
By Guive Mirfendereski
October 16, 2000
The Iranian
One who lays a crooked brick, builds a tumbling wall. If this is not
already a proverb in the Middle East, well, it should be. On the first
of October, the wall that Bill Clinton was building in the Middle East
came crumbling down, burying his quest for that elusive and dubious legacy
as a peacemaker and sending his hope for a peace prize down the proverbial
water closet >>>
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Outlook
Baqi did not insult Islam, Qom scholars say
BBC Persian Service
A statement, issued by the Society of Qom Seminary Teachers and Researchers,
said that the article written by Emaddedin Baqi, in the now-banned newspaper
Neshat, did not insult Islam. Mr Baqi is serving a five and a half year
sentence for writing that article. Here is a report >>>
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A woman raped and murdered in Tehran every six days:
paper
TEHRAN, Oct 16 (AFP) - A woman in Tehran is raped, murdered and mutilated
every six days as the capital faces an escalating crisis over runaways,
a government newspaper said Sunday. The Iran paper said the bodies of 30
women, some of them underage, have been found in the past six months, all
of them with their faces burned and all of them victims of rape >>> FULL TEXT
Iranian Protester Seeks Asylum in U.S.
Sorata Sarhaddi Nelson
Los Angeles Times
October 15, 2000
The trace of repeated beatings for secular thought linger on Gholam
Reza Mohajery-Nejad's face: a crooked nose, the slight indentation in one
cheekbone, the haunted look in dark eyes as he recounts 130 days of torture
in a windowless Iranian prison.
It is the same infamous prison that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei was sent to for opposing the former shah >>>
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After Iran failed to beat Thailand in the Asian Cup soccer championships
Sunday, I joked that I would never eat Thai food again. But my sister-in-law,
Setareh Sabety Javid, disagreed: "If you can't beat'em, eat'em."
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* Nobel prize for silence
Nik Khodadadi writes:
in khabar [President
Khatami nominated for Nobel Peace Prize] yeki az bozorgtarin jokehaye
gharn bayad bashad.an ham be khater goftegoye tamadonha?? Agar eshan mitavanest
goftegooei bain kasi ejad konad, aval az hameh bayad az keshver khood shoro
konad... Aghaye Khatami jayezeh nobel dar "SOKOOT" beh khater
sokot abadi eshan dar moghabelsarkoob va beh zendan afkandan va sarkoob
roznamehnegaran, daneshjooyan mobarez va azadikhah >>>
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* Zoroastrianism not monotheistic
G. Rezaa Sami'
Gorgaan Roodi writes: While there is room for much praise
for Ms. Elaine Sciolino's astute observations, "The
twelve rules", she makes a dreadful blunder when she writes that
"Zoroaster preached a message of monotheism."
You do not need me to remind you of the fact that Zoroastrianism, far
from being a monotheistic religion, is based on the philosophy of duality
that shows the two forces of darkness and light in conflict with one another
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* Don't look down on odd people
Faramarz Kaviani
writes: I want to offer my apologies to Mr. Baniameri on behalf of
all those Iranians who can not speak perfect English and still use some
Persian words (like "Aghaa joon") in the middle of their conversations
["A
private matter"].
Mr. Baniameri should consider the fact that unlike him, a lot of us
odd-looking, uneducated Iranians haven't been in the United States long
enough to learn the apperopriate manners and haven't had the chance to
loose our thick accents (what a big shame!) >>>
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Charity: Kahrizak first Iranian NGO
okayed by U.S.
Kahrizak (www.kahrizak.org/)
was founded in 1971 by the late Dr. Mohammad Reza Hakimzadeh in a small,
dilapidated house in southern Tehran...
Kahrizak Foundation, a California tax-exempt corporation, was created
to co-ordinate the activities of Kahrizak and the Ladies Charitable Society
in the United States. Authorization has been obtained from the Department
of Treasury to transfer donated funds from Kahrizak Foundation's account
in the U.S. to Kahrizak in Iran...
The Ladies Charitable Society collects donations and holds fundraising
events in October and March of every year >>>
DETAILS HERE
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Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
All our lives we've seen each other's face, but
Today we looked into each other's eyes
To find we feared to lose this to another:
We spoke with eyebrows, listened with our eyes.
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Eshkevari found guilty of apostasy, war
against Islam
TEHRAN,
Oct 16 (AFP) - A closed-door trial has found an ailing pro-reform Iranian
cleric guilty of a battery of serious charges including apostasy and waging
war against Islam, the official IRNA news agency said Monday. Hassan Yusefi-Eshkevari
could now be facing the death sentence after the conservative Special Court
for Clergy (SCC) found him guilty on several counts after an in-camera trial
condemned by human rights groups >>> FULL TEXT
Pro-reform lawyer files appeal on suspension
from bar
TEHRAN,
Oct 15 (AFP) - Mohsen Rahami, a leading pro-reform lawyer said he has appealed
his five-year suspension from the bar over a controversial political case,
the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday >>> FULL TEXT
New business paper hits newsstands
TEHRAN,
Oct 15 (AFP) - A new pro-free trade business newspaper hit Tehran's newsstands
on Saturday, the third press launch in Iran in a little more than a month.
The Tejarat-e Azad (Free Trade) paper will be published twice a week but
>>> FULL TEXT
NITV signal to Iran blocked - company
LOS
ANGELES, Oct 13 (AFP) - The signal into Iran of a US-based Iranian television
station has been blocked from that country, the French satellite transmission
company broadcasting the signal says >>> FULL TEXT
Pro-reform parliament mulling private TV
networks
TEHRAN,
Oct 16 (AFP) - Iran's pro-reform parliament is studying a constitutional
amendment that would permit the nation's first-ever private television networks,
an MP told the official IRNA news agency Monday >>> FULL TEXT
Kharrazi ends rare visit to Iraq
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi Sunday
ended a rare visit to Iraq aimed at patching up differences remaining from
the 1980-88 war, the Iraqi News Agency INA reported >>> FULL TEXT
New anti-Israeli group calls for no-fly
zones over Israel
TEHRAN,
Oct 15 (AFP) - An anti-Israeli group whose creation was announced in Tehran
last week by a top Iranian official called Saturday for no-fly zones like
those in Iraq to be imposed over Israel >>> FULL TEXT
Russian security chief visits Iran
MOSCOW,
Oct 16 (AFP) - The head of Russia's powerful advisory Security Council,
Sergei Ivanov, began a three-day visit to Iran on Monday, Russian news agencies
reported >>> FULL TEXT
Militants cleared of murder charges
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Eight Sunni Muslim militants were acquitted
Monday of murdering an Iranian diplomat and six Pakistanis >>>
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Iran NIOC Seeks To Develop Second LNG Export
Proj - MEES
October
16, 2000, SINGAPORE -(Dow Jones)- The National Iranian Oil Co. is in talks
with international petroleum companies, with a view to building a second
liquified natural gas export project in the country, the Middle East Economic
Survey reported Monday >>> FULL TEXT
Cargo planes unsafe, banned from international
flights: paper
TEHRAN,
Oct 16 (AFP) - Iran's air cargo fleet has been banned from making international
flights after being ruled unfit to fly, due mainly to a lack of spare parts,
press reports said Monday >>> FULL TEXT
Best novel to be announced
Tehran (Hayat-e No) -- The best novel of 1999 will be announced
by a panel of eight writers on Wednesday. The cash award is a million tomans.
News and interviews with organizers, including Karim Emami >>>
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Makhmalbaf gets first prize in Seoul
Tehran
(Hayat-e No) -- "The day I became a woman" by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
has been selected as the best film at the South Korean film festival >>>
FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Meimi's film gets north American award
Tehran (Hayat-e No) -- Masoud Meimi's short film "Sherveh"
has won an award at the first festival of Iranian videos in north Amerca
>>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Daei saves Iran from embarrassment against
Thailand
Beirut Oct. 15 (Iran Sports Press) -- With video: Iran spared
quite a dismal performance, three days following their majestic display
against Lebanon, before needing a 74th-minute equalizer by Ali Daei to finally
content with a 1-1 draw against an inspired Thai side. This put Iran very
much on their way to the quarter finals stage of the Asian Cup, ahead of
their electrifying encounter against Iraq next Wednesday >>> FULL
TEXT
Japan defeat Saudi Arabia
SAIDA, October 14: The match was held in the newly built Saida
stadium sported an exciting show of brilliance by the Japanese side. Both
Japan (in blue) and Saudi Arabia (white-green) came into the match sporting
the 3-5-2 formations. The game started out with both sides failing to convert
close chances while the Japanese did most of the attack up front >>>
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Arsenal and Manchester United after Mahdavikia
BEIRUT, October 14 (Iran Sports Press) -- Iranian star Mehdi Mahdavikia
is sought after by English Premier giants Manchester United and Arsenal
in a competitive bid to win over the Iranian, according to Lebanese newspaper
Al-Safir >>> FULL TEXT
BBC
Turkish security envoy in Iran
A high ranking Turkish security envoy, headed
by Turkish deputy Interior Minister, is in Tehran to discuss bilateral security-related
issues. Tooraj Atabki, expert on the regional affairs explains the difficulties
in the ties between Iran and Turkey >>>
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