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By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
January 30, 2001
The Iranian
The immediate reaction to the mention of monarchy, in Iran, and most
everywhere else, is the conjuring up of the image of absolutism in diametrical
opposition to what is now considered to be the preferred from of government
of, by, and, above all, for the peoples of the world everywhere, democracy.
Much of the antipathy towards monarchy, however, has to do with a false
dichotomy set up between it and democracy >>>
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Reply
By Majid Tehranian
January30, 2001
The Iranian
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Opinion
Minority rule
Shiism has a problem with majority rule
By Sohrab Mahdavi
January 30, 2001
The Iranian
The affable letter of Majid Tehranian ["Rah-e
sevom"] once again proves how well-meaning thinkers lodged abroad
are incapable of grasping the most elementary factors that figure into
the equation of power in the Islamic Republic, and how by appealing to
commonplace reasoning they are only out to satisfy their sense of nostalgia
and sentimentalism about Iran without wanting to return until their fanciful
ideals have seen the light of day >>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
The threat from powerful thugs is serious and imminent >>>
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Outlook
U.S. oil chiefs meet Iran foreign minister on sanctions
NEW YORK, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Chief executives of the three largest U.S.
oil companies have met with Iran's foreign minister in energy firms' most
significant move yet to bridge the two countries' political divide >>> FULL
TEXT
Relatives of the poltical killing victims oppose execution
BBC Persian Service
Relatives of the victims of the serial killings in Iran, have emphasised
that they do not wish to see the killers of their relatives executed. In
a statement, the relatives said they did not accept the legitimacy of the
trial and were more interested in finding out the truth, not revenge. Maria
Sarsalari asks Parastoo Forouhar, Daughter of two of the murdered victims
about the statement >>>
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The Sound of Distant Stars
By JORDAN RAPHAEL
The Los Angeles Times
January 28, 2001
Shahrzad Sepanlou's cell phone rings. At her office desk on a Tuesday
morning, the 28-year-old event coordinator at UCLA considers her silver
Samsung. She usually leaves its calls to the answering service, but she's
already checked her boss' e-mail, arranged his schedule, paid some bills
and sorted the mail. She may as well see who's calling on the line she
uses for her real business >>>
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Cheshm maa roshan
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - Iran, where makeup was once considered a sign
of depravity on a woman, will host its first-ever beauty and cosmetics
fair next week, newspapers reported on Tuesday >>>
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Kate
I think I'm in love with Kate Winslet. I didn't like her in "Titanic"
but there was something about her in "Hideous Kinky" which I
watched last night. Good film >>>
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More Letters
* Citizen Pahlavi has my vote
Ali Sarshar writes:
Reza Pahlavi has stirred up a debate among Iranians about the future
of our country ["Citizen
Pahlavi"]. He gets my vote for the following reasons:
He is a modern man. When I listen to Reza Pahlavi, I feel this is a
man who belongs to my generation >>>
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* Democracy through trade
Amoo Sam writes: First of all, allow me to clarify my wake-up
call letter and not mix apples with bananas... The point is that Washington
(home to Amoo Sam), must ENGAGE the IRI, drop economic sanctions, sign
oil & gas, power, telecom and other infrastructure-related contracts
with the IRI, send American technicians, equipment and general business
expertise to Iran and through our technical and economic power foster democracy
in Iran >>>
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* The chance to choose
Shahriar Shahabi
writes: From my understanding of politics, and knowing Reza Pahlavi
for the intellectual that he is, by no means, does he consider himself
attached to the peacock throne. Instead, what he is devoted to is the principle
that Iranians have an inalienable right to live in freedom and as such
in a free society the truth must be spoken and heard >>>
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* Besyar khub
Dr Shodja Eddin Ziaian
writes: Sokhanrani-e akhir-e Reza Pahlavi nomreye "besyar khub"
dasht. ["Democratic
republic or...?"]... Aknun, Shahzade Reza Pahlavi va daneshjuyan-e
Iran parchamdaran-e pishtaz-e Jebheye Azadi va Abadi-e Iran-e Bozorg hastand.
Reza Pahlavi-e 40 sale, be rahbari-e nasl-e now baraye bazsazi-e Iran-e
Novin omid baste... Dasteshan dard nakonad va dameshan garm >>>
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* Me and millions of others
Babak Aminiam
writes: The editorial "Citizen
Pahlavi" was one of your most profoundly powerful articles ever
published. Great job to you guys.
You literally spoke my thoughts and my mind (and I bet millions of other
anti-shah people out there).
I am very proud of Iranian.com for speaking up and standing to your
humanitarian and political values. Also thank you for clarifying what true
democracy is.
Fundraising: Ghelichkhani in Berkeley
An evening with Parviz Ghelichkhani, the former captain of the Iranian
national soccer team. Parviz Ghelichkhani is the director and editor-in-chief
of Arash. The purpose of this gathering is fundraising for Arash,
a Persian bimonthly review of cultural, social and political affairs published
since 1991 >>>
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Victim's families in 1998 dissident murders
reject verdicts
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - Relatives of several Iranian dissidents
and intellectuals killed in 1998 by secret service officials rejected the
sentences handed down against 15 agents, affirming that they were still
seeking truth rather than vengeance. "The families are against the
issued death sentences and they were never seeking such an outcome,"
said Nasser Zarafshan, defence lawyer for two of the victim's families cited
by the reformist Doran-e Emrouz paper >>>
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Intelligence Agents' Trial Inconclusive
New York, January 29, 2001 (Human Rights Watch) - The secret
trial of eighteen Iranian intelligence officials accused of killing dissident
intellectuals has left key questions unanswered about the ultimate responsibility
for the murders, Human Rights Watch said today. Three of the defendants
were sentenced to death and two to life imprisonment on Saturday, January
27 >>>
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Iran readies for anniversary of revolution
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - Iran on Wednesday begins 10 days
of state celebrations honouring the creation of the Islamic republic, amid
a wide-open political battle between the reformist and conservative heirs
of founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The annual festivities marking the
1979 Islamic revolution will kick off at 9:30 a.m. (0600 GMT), the exact
hour when Khomeini returned from exile to lead the overthrow of the shah's
imperial regime 10 days later >>>
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Kharrazi arrives in Kiev for three-day
visit
MOSCOW, Jan 30 (AFP) - Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi
arrived Tuesday in Ukraine for a three-day official visit and a series of
high-level talks, officials told AFP. Kharazi was due to hold talks with
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko and
Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko >>>
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Russian ultranationalist welcomed by Majlis
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - Russian ultranationalist Vladimir
Zhirinovsky was received with honor by parliament, where he met with deputy
speaker Behzad Nabavi, state television announced. Zhirinovsky, whose visit
to Iran was not previously announced by local media, was making an "exploratory
trip" to Tehran at the head of a Russian parliamentary delegation and
will meet with a number of MPs, an Iranian source said >>>
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Iran calls for joint navy to control Persian
Gulf
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - The top environmental official called
Tuesday on littoral states to form a joint naval force to control shipping
traffic in the Persian Gulf in a bid to fight mounting pollution. Vice President
Masumeh Ebtekar, who heads Iran's environmental protection organisation,
warned both oil exploration and busy shipping lanes are "threatening
the ecological balance in the Persian Gulf >>>
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Police seize 4,000 litres of home brew:
report
TEHRAN, Jan 30 (AFP) - Police seized 4,000 litres of alcohol
distilled from dates in a northeast Tehran suburb after neighbours complained,
the afternoon daily Kayhan reported Tuesday. The paper said the brew. along
with quantities of date concentrate, was discovered in a house in Boumehen,
where a Christian Iran was making it to sell locally >>>
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