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Clinton legacy?
Clinton & the Iranian-American community
By Guive Mirfendereski
September 22, 2000
The Iranian
A while back a friend asked my opinion about a piece in which he had
compared the reported search by presidents Clinton and Khatami for some
sort of elusive legacy. Exhorting Clinton to work harder toward normalizing
Iran-U.S. relations, the piece ended with a very probing question: What
is Clinton's legacy? To this query, I quipped, "A blow job or two
by Monica Lewinsky." Then, I got to thinking about all this by some
in the Iranian-American community to measure Clinton's political legacy
in terms of Iran-U.S. relations. Flippantly, I fired back at my friend:
"Never mind Clinton's legacy, what about Khatami's?" >>>
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Poetry
What's does this mean?
Poem
By Siamak Kiarostami
September 22, 2000
The Iranian
My questions are out of order so
I let my lips press arbitrary answers
all over your body that very same night
you changed my name.
Hours of this interrogation had passed
We had certainly moved past any logic-
Begging for understanding >>>
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Outlook
Genuine human rights activities
By Trita Parsi,
Executive Director
Iranians for International Cooperation
In a world where the importance of Human Rights is increasingly recognized,
the overseas Iranian community suffers from the conspicuous absence of
genuine non-partisan Human Rights organizations. In light of the rapidly
evolving situation in Iran, the need for such groups is greater than ever...
The current controversy surrounding Iranian Foreign Minister Kharrazi's
appearence on Thursday at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
to give a talk is a case in point. It is quite disturbing to witness groups
that titles themselves as Human Rights activists, openly and blatantly
opposing the freedom of speech of an individual, no matter how despised
he or she may be. >>>
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Extending a hand to Satan
The Economist
September 23, 2000
T E H R A N -- There are intriguing signs of a thaw in Iran's relations
with the United States. What do they add up to?
WHEN one of the walls of the old American embassy in central Tehran
was sandblasted recently and made sparkling clean, rumour ran wild. The
Americans were coming back, Iranians predicted. Nonsense, said officialdom:
the embassy, now used as a training base for the elite Revolutionary Guards,
is about to be leased commercially. That was true, as it turned out >>>
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In Iran, a hot market for nose jobs
By Elaine Sciolino
The New York Times
September 22, 2000
TEHRAN, Iran - The law in Iran requires women to cover their hair and
to conceal the shape of their bodies in loose clothing. So a cool thing
to do in Tehran these days is to get a nose job.
So cool that unlike women in many places, who hide the chiseling and
sawing and stretching done to their faces, Iranian women wear their postsurgical
bandages like badges of honor, or at least indicators of a certain degree
of wealth >>>
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The leader of the revolution says husbands should protect wives as though
they were flowers >>>
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* Ansar-e Los Angeles
Ali writes: I went to Dr. Kamal Kharrazi's talk today at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), yesterday. Unfortunately
due to some major error my name was missing from the invitation list...
However it was not all a waste, although of course I would have liked
very much to attend the speech. Instead I saw a demonstation by about 120
Iranians outside the place - real live theater! Sad rahmat be ansaar-e
hezbollah! These guys beat at least five or six people that I saw with
my own eyes. They cursed and insulted and hit everybody who walked in,
including me (mozdoor! khaae'en! vatanforoosh! aakhoond-e bi ammameh!
kesaafat! olaagh! ... you name it!) >>>
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* Fooling ourselves
Qtipp writes: In
response to "Okay,
I'm a racist", and it's responses: I read the article and many
of the responses and I'm left with the solemn, worried Iranian look on
my face (we all know what that is). I have nothing against dAyi Hamid for
honestly expressing his views, although I may not neccesarily agree with
him...
We would be fooling ourselves to return to pre-Zoroastrian, newly Persian
ways, and we would be murdering 4000+ years of struggling to maintain our
one common thread (being Iranian) to retard ourselves into dark age fundamentalist
Islamic ideals. What would've happened if the Arabs hadn't invaded? It
would have been Christian influence, or Hindu, or Buddhist...
So we can all be ultra-proud about our past or fervent about our religious
beliefs, but neither one is going to take us anywhere as a whole until
we start respecting what we all have in common with one another: That we
are all Iranian >>>
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* Arab colonial legacy
Engscience writes:
In response to the article, "Okay,
I'm a racist", I think we shoud not dislike Arabs for invading
Iran. After all, the Arab people suffrered themselves at hand of their
repressive rulers. What, we should oppose is the colonial legacy that Arab
invaders left behind in Iran.
In my opinion, Arab invaders who came from a slavery-type of society
with utter disrespect for women, art and culture in general, left a colonial
legacy which was extremely reactionary, inhuman and backward.
The Arab colonial legacy is Islamic Shiism. The colonized version of
Islam which became prevalent in Iran, could be compared to colonized version
of christianity in the other third world countries such as Philipines,
Mexico, or Brazil, where the fanaticism is so strong that some people crucify
themselves on Easter Holiday.
Politics: US-Iran Congressional Roundtable,
Washington
American Iranian Council
(AIC) is pleased to announce its next Congressional Roundtable on Narcotics
Traffic Control Cooperation between US and Iran Project. The speaker is
Senator Arlen Specter and we plan to bring an Iranian official to join
the panel. Date: October 2, 2000 from 9:30-11:30 am. Location: 2128 Rayburn
Office Building, Washington D.C. >>>
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
Until you made me sing, I was a monk.
You made me a rabble-rouser, a hopeless drunk.
I used to sit in prayer, so dignified;
Now I'm a toy that children toss aside.
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Iranian verdict in espionage case "disturbing"
(New York, September 22, 2000 )--Human Rights Watch today expressed
its disappointment over the decision of an Iranian appeals court to uphold
prison terms for ten Jews and two Muslims from Shiraz initially accused
of espionage for Israel. The appeals court upheld their conviction on charges
of cooperation with a hostile state, and imposed on the defendants reduced
prison sentences of between two and nine years >>> FULL TEXT
Convicted Iranian Jews can still seek quashing
of trial
TEHRAN,
Sept 22 (AFP) - Ten Iranian Jews whose sentences for spying for Israel were
reduced on appeal Thursday, can still apply for their whole trial to be
quashed, a judiciary official confirmed Friday. If a submission to the Islamic
republic's prosecutors is upheld they would be given a new trial before
a different court in the province of Shiraz, the southern city's judiciary
chief Hossein-Ali Amiri told AFP >>> FULL TEXT
Eleven Jews intercepted trying to flee
Sept 21, 2000, WASHINGTON (AP) - Eleven Jews who attempted to leave
Iran surreptitiously over a number of years have disappeared and could be
imprisoned or have suffered an even worse fate, U.S. Jewish groups have
told The State Department. The disclosure coincided with a ruling by an
appeals court in Iran reducing the time 10 other Iranian Jews found guilty
of cooperating with Israel will be required to serve in prison >>>
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Iran likely to escape political fallout
after reducing Jews' sentences
TEHRAN,
Sept 22 (AFP) - Iran has probably got away with jailing 10 Jews for alleged
spying for Israel without too much political and diplomatic fallout, after
cutting the heavy sentences imposed in July, analysts said Friday. "Iran
took world opinion into account when it ruled out imposing the death penalty,
which had been the great concern ever since the affair broke," political
analyst Iradj Rashti told AFP >>> FULL TEXT
Israel expresses "profound concern"
at Iranian Jews appeal verdict
JERUSALEM,
Sept 22 (AFP) - Israel voiced "profound concern" Thursday at an
Iranian appeals court verdict which kept 10 Jews convicted of spying for
the Jewish state in jail, protested their innocence and dismissed cuts in
their sentences as "cosmetic". "Israel expresses its profound
concern following the decision of the Iranian court of appeal in Shiraz
in the case of the Jewish prisoners," an Israeli foreign ministry statement
said >>> FULL TEXT
Bush says Iran failed 'test' in case of
jailed Jews
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican U.S. presidential nominee George
W. Bush (news - web sites) said on Friday Iran failed a ``test'' by declining
to release 10 Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel. ``By failing
to release the 10 Iranian Jews, Iran's judiciary has again disappointed
the hopes of the majority of the Iranian people for a government based on
the rule of law,'' the Texas governor said in a statement issued by his
campaign office >>> FULL TEXT
Iran army testing skills near Iraq
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A day after test-firing a new long-range missile,
Iran's regular army began its largest military exercises of the year Friday
in mountainous terrain near the Iraqi border, state-run television reported.
The three-day maneuvers in the western Kurdistan province were being supervised
by top Iranian military commanders and involved airborne units and ground
troops using radar interception systems, the broadcast said >>>
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BP says Iran oil talks going well, U.S.
informed
ANCHORAGE,
Sept 22 (Reuters) - BP is making good progress in investment talks with
Iran and is keeping the U.S. State Department informed every step of the
way to avoid angering Washington, a top company official said. ``It's a
good conversation and my guess is it will mature quickly,'' BP's head of
exploration and production Dick Olver said in an interview. ``My sense is
they (Iran) would like us to help them.'' >>> FULL TEXT
Iran's judiciary probes fraud at state
bank-papers
TEHRAN, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Iran's judiciary has launched an investigation
into charges that hundreds of millions of dollars were embezzled from a
state bank, newspapers said on Thursday. The Entekhab daily said four people,
a branch manager of Sepah Bank, his deputy and two employees were now being
interrogated for their role in the alleged scam which a senior MP called
``the biggest Iran's banking history.'' >>> FULL TEXT
Historic sites: Facelift
Tehran
(Hamshahri) -- Thirty of Iran's top historical sites, including Persepolis,
Takht-e Soleyman and Choghazanbil will undergo rennovations for "academic
and cultural" use (read tourism) >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Alborz alumni pay respect to principal
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Alborz High School graduates of the past
50 years were to gather in Tehran today to pay tribute to the late principal
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi, >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Documentaries lack support
Tehran (Iran daily) -- Documentary filmmaker Ebrahim Mokhtari critiques
the Culture Ministry's lack of support for documentaries >>> FULL
PERSIAN TEXT
Esteghlal thrash Al-Wahda
TEHRAN, September 22 (Iran Sports Press) -- With video: Iran's
Esteghlal thrashed UAE club side Al-Wahda 4-0 on Friday in Azadi Stadium.
Esteghlal, who had suffered a 3-2 loss in a poor performance a week before
against Al-Wahda in Abu Dhabi, managed to outclass and dominate the very
side tonight infront of over 100,000 spectators >>> FULL TEXT
Hejazi: 20 million toman man
Tehran, (Iran Varzeshi) -- Nasser Hejazi has agreed to coach Esteqlal
Rasht this season for 20 million tomans plus a monthly salary of 300,000
tomans >>> FULL TEXT
Olympics: Weightlifting competitions resume
TEHRAN, September 22 (Iran Sports Press) -- The weightlifting competition
for Iranian team resumes on Friday with Men's 77-Kg category, where Mohammad
Hossein Barkhah will be our second lifter to showcase his talents in these
Olympic games. Seyed Mehdi Panzavan (62 Kg) has already completed his competition
and placed 6th overall >>> FULL TEXT
BBC
Iran tests missile
Iran's Defence Minister says a new missile,
Shahab-3D, has been tested. He said that it was part of a telecom project
and had no military purpose. Maria Sarsalari talks to Paul Beaver of Jane's
Defence Weekly: >>>
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Iranian-American focus
The Iranian-American community, it should grow to not care
about what Clinton or his successor thinks of Iran, but rather what Americans
think of Iran and the Iranians among them. It is in this field the Iranian-Americans
should labor, to change the image of the "I-rainian" in America's
pop culture. That begins with becoming teachers, social workers, and volunteers
in the communities across this country, with taking back one's Iranian name
from the ravages of expedient abbreviations and Americophone equivalents,
with no longer practicing a bizarre mixture of elitism and victimhood.
-- Guive Mirfendereski
"Clinton
legacy?"
The Iranian
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