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The blue pill
The one that turns a Paykan into a BMW
By Siamack Baniameri
January 31, 2001
The Iranian
My long lost uncle calls me from Iran after twenty years in the middle
of my favorite show. He probably wants money.
"What can I do for you?" I asked.
"Send me the pill."
"Excuse me? The what?"
"The pill, you know -- the blue pill."
"Advil?"
"Not Advil you idiot. The pill. The one that makes the dead man rise
from the coffin." >>>
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Pacific Islam
Pragmatic and human reasons for respecting religious values
By Majid Tehranian
January 31, 2001
The Iranian
This article is in reply to Sohrab Mahdavi's "Minority
rule".
Islam happens to be the religion of over 90 percent of Iranians. In
my open letter I have tried to appeal on the one hand to the highest values
in our Islamic-Iranian traditions of civility, but on the other hand to
give warnings on religious intolerance and monopoly of power by a religious
faction >>>
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Suggestion
Test run
Reza Pahlavi should fly to Tehran
By Omid Ashraf
January 31, 2001
The Iranian
I read "Citizen Pahlavi" and must say I wholeheartedly agree.
But I have some suggestions. Aqa Reza should approach this like starting
a new business. The premise being: "Will the people of Iran buy my
product, that is, do they want a government that revives their rich history
and gloried past?" >>>
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History
22 years ago
Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile
January 31, 2001
The Iranian
Mehrdad writes: The attached is from a book authored by Shahram
Javidpour entitled: "Shooresh 57 dar aayineyeh matboo'aat"
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Chain murders, elections and threats >>>
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Outlook
War of factions and the role of Tajzadeh
BBC Persian Service
Mostafa Tajzadeh, head of election headquarters who has been charged
by judiciary officials for irregularities in the last general election
was in the parliament today to defend his record. Why has Mr. Tajzadeh
come to be at the centre of the war of factions in Iran? A question Daryoush
Homai puts to Ahmad Salamatian, former MP >>>
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Metric system
WASHINGTON, DC--Despite other academic shortcomings, inner-city youths
possess a firmer grasp of the metric system than their peers in suburban
and rural areas, according to a Department Of Education study released
Monday >>>
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More Letters
* Dream on!
Bardia Saeedi writes:
I can not believe all the talk about monarchy again ["What
future"]... Come on! You can't wake up one day and decide that
today I want to be king again. I guess I am wrong. You can >>>
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* Need a leader
Reza writes: The
problem with all of us Iranians today is that we don't like to agree with
one another. We know that we need a leader and that's really the only way
to end the contagious perplexity that's spreading among our community.
Yet, we can not get it together and forget about the bullshit criticisms
["Citizen
Pahlavi"].
This is no time to evaluate a former prince who's father made a few
political gurus unhappy >>>
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* Little democracy in any religion
Ramin Tabib writes:
Much applause for Mr. Mahdavi for an argument that was well done and illuminating
["Minority
rule"]. However:.. there is little democratic flavor in any of
the world's unitarian religions, whether it is Islam (in all its varieties),
Catholicism or Judaism. No unitarian religion can honestly allow for majority
rule since unitarian religions by their nature are absolutis >>>
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* His story our story
Poopak Ta'ati writes:
Not everyone has the gift of expressing their inner self and true feelings
and certainly not everyone can observe and notice their surroundings...
Hossein Samiei's story of the night of leaving Iran is his story and
ours ["The
mirror and the book"]. The details are a bit different, but the
setting and the feelings are so recognizable >>>
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Fundraising: Milani on Hoveyda, Stanford
Stanford Bookstore Presents: A Booksigning with Abbas Milani, Chair
of the Department of History and Political Science at the college of Notre
Dame and Author of The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle
of the Iranian Revolution. >>>
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
Saqi, I asked you for a simple wine;
Make it live; serve it to men who are free.
You said, 'A wind is stirring in the sky.'
Until it comes, my love, pour wine for me.
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Jailed Iranian journalist starts hunger
strike
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (Reuters) - An outspoken Iranian journalist
held in prison on a "temporary" detention order for more than
five months, has gone on hunger strike, newspapers said on Wednesday. Hamshahri
newspaper quoted the spouse of the reformist Ahmad Zeydabadi as saying he
had gone on hunger strike to protest against prison conditions. Other newspapers
carried similar reports >>>
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MPs in closed-door session over unrest
charges against deputy minister
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - The reform-majority parliament held
a special closed-door session Wednesday to examine the unrest which marred
a pro-reform student conference last year, state television said. The session
was called following charges reportedly laid against Deputy Interior Minister
Mostafa Tajzadeh, a target of conservatives, for inciting the unrest. Reformists
are backing Tajzadeh >>>
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Foreign minister expected in Berlin soon
BERLIN, Jan 31 (AFP) - Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi is
expected in Berlin soon to meet his German counterpart Joschka Fischer for
talks likely to focus on a controversial trial that has strained relations
between the two countries. Kharazi could also hold talks with Hans-Ulrich
Klose, the representative for the foreign affairs commission in Germany's
lower house of parliament, sources close to the government here said. No
date has been set for the visit yet >>>
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Zhirinovsky says Tehran-Moscow need to
strengthen Caspian Sea cooperation
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - Visiting Russian ultranationalist
Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Wednesday called for strengthened Tehran-Moscow
cooperation over the oil-rich Caspian Sea's legal status. "Irano-Russian
cooperation plays an important role in defining the Caspian Sea's legal
regime," Zhirinovsky said during talks with Deputy Foreign Minister
Ali Ahani, the state IRNA newsagency reported >>>
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Iran discovers 26-billion-barrel oil deposit
in Persian Gulf: radio
TEHRAN, Jan 31 (AFP) - Iran has discovered a major oil
deposit containing around 26 billion barrels in Persian Gulf waters off
Abadan, a senior oil industry official was quoted by state radio as saying
Wednesday. Mehdi Mir-Moezi, deputy managing director of the Iranian National
Oil Company, said the oil was found in shallow Iranian-held waters in the
Dashteh Abadan zone >>>
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Kiev, Tehran planning gas pipeline project
KIEV, Jan 31 (AFP) - Kiev and Tehran are examining ways
of transporting natural gas to central and western Europe through Ukraine,
Foreign Minister Anatoly Zlenko announced Wednesday during an official visit
by his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharazi. "It's the first time we have
broached the subject. We'll be entering negotiations soon with the European
Union," Zlenko said at a joint press conference >>>
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Power
Since power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely,
the Islamic regime has managed to do within 20 years what the Pahlavi regime
did in 50. They have de-mythologized Islam almost as effectively as the
Pahlavis de-mythologized monarchy.
-- Majid Tehranian
"Pacific
Islam"
The Iranian
January 31, 2001
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