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Poetry
By Esmail Nooriala
February 9, 2001
The Iranian
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Poetry
Obscene
By Leila Farjami
February 9, 2001
The Iranian
Pardon me,
if I am too shallow
I have NOT been taught
when to speak
when to see
when to listen
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Poetry
Guadalajara
By an Iranian in Mexico
February 9, 2001
The Iranian
I want to live in Guadalajara
where I can hear the crickets sing
all-night-long
and year-round
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Poetry
The weather is cold
By Neda Najibi
February 9, 2001
The Iranian
The weather is cold
There's no driving snow
I don't want to know what you did last night
But you didn't do it - he did!
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Food
Persian cooking
This week's recipe
By Pari Ardalan Malek
February 9, 2001
The Iranian
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Protecting this fragile child (by Masoud Behnoud) >>>
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Outlook
Rally against Islamic Republic
BBC Persian Service
Riot police in Tehran have broken up a rally by demonstrators calling
for more freedom of expression. Police fired shots in the air and used
tear gas to disperse the crowd of several hundred. Witnesses said there
were many arrests. The rally was called by Iranian dissident groups based
abroad. Afshin Amirzadeh asks Sadeq Zibakalam, political analyst, what
makes some people answer to such requests positively >>>
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Police, Demonstrators Clash in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Police and members of a hard-line paramilitary squad
arrested dozens of anti-government protesters Friday and used tear gas
to disperse hundreds more from a Tehran park, witnesses said. The official
Islamic Republic News Agency said there were only 300 protesters, mostly
young people who were demanding freedom of expression >>>
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Romantic
Iranian men would do the most imaginative things to show their love
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More Letters
LETTERS ARE PUBLISHED AS RECEIVED.
THEY ARE NOT SELECTED
* Setting a bad example
Shahla Farshchi
writes: Let me start off by expressing my profound disappointment in
the tactics of our new anti-discrimination group, Persian
Watch Cat (PWC). It's board members and executive director have discredited
themselves and the group at its inception .... My advice to the PWC is
to allow people like Dr. Mifrendeski to add to your debate, to learn from
his legal and political training, and to use it in your fight. And I do
hope cooler heads prevail at the PWC. I do not doubt the sincerity of all
involved. But I do hope the PWC realizes that so far, it has set a very
bad example >>>
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* Unprofessional
Ramin Kashi, writes:
I am ashamed. Ashamed as an Iranian, ashamed as an American. I do not know
much about the Persian Watch
Cat (PWC), but what I know is very sad... I need to be defended when
I get fingerprinted at an American airport, but I rather be fingerprinted
than have a group of unprofessional madmen try to help me by yelling and
threating to sue newspapers! >>>
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* Each for himself
A. Shemirani writes:
Regarding "Just
don't do it", Some of us can and some of us can't. The ones who
can, do not want to be part of the big melting pot and want to stand out
as individuals. Those who can't, would more rather be part of that great
melting pot that has made U.S. what it is today. Some of us want to and
some of us don't want to >>>
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* Children of Imam Hossein
Asghar Massombagi writes:
In his response ["Pacific
Islam"], Mr. Tehranian has not addressed Mr. Mahdavi's central
argument, that Shi'ite Islam by nature is anti-pluralist ["Minority
rule"] >>>
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Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
What riot flares in my constricted heart?
Love has shrunk me, like a small, hollow lute.
What is this--this heart within my body,
Making war on me for her, night and day?
* Also see more Rumi
translations
Rumi book
Rumi:
The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi
By Frankin D. Lewis
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At least 20 injured, 100 held in Tehran
protest: witnesses
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (AFP) - At least 20 young anti-government
demonstrators were injured and 100 were arrested in clashes with riot police
breaking up a Tehran rally, witnesses told AFP. Armed police fired tear
gas and beat some protesters with clubs after some 3,000 protesters chanted
and held banners reading "We Are Against the Islamic Regime,"
and supporting freedom of expression >>>
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UN's Robinson and Brundtland to visit Tehran
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (AFP) - The UN high commissioner for Human
Rights will come to Tehran later this month for the Asian inter-governmental
preparatory meeting for the annual world conference against racism, the
UN office in Tehran said Thursday. UN coordinator in Tehran Francesco Bastagli
told AFP that Mary Robinson is due to arrive here February 19 >>>
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Iran, EU to hold latest semi-annual meeting
in Stockholm: press
TEHRAN, Feb 9 (AFP) - Iran and the European Union will
hold their sixth regular meeting on February 13 in Sweden, current holder
of the EU's rotating presidency, the Dorane-Emrouz paper reported Thursday.
Sweden's ambassador to Tehran, Steen Hohwue-Christensen, was quoted as saying
"topics of mutual interest, including drug trafficking, refugees, regional
developments, as well as human rights," would be discussed >>> FULL TEXT
Monarchist opposition happy with demonstrations
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (AFP) - Iran's monarchist opposition,
in exile in the United States, expressed its support Friday of demonstrations
in Tehran held in protest at Iran's Islamic regime. The demonstrations are
a direct result of a move by Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran's former shah, to
intensify his campaign against the Islamic regime which ousted his father,
mainly via foreign radio stations and the Internet, according to opposition
leader Khosrow Akmal >>>
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Chancellor Schroeder To Visit Iran
BERLIN (AP) - Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Thursday
accepted an invitation to visit Iran, government officials said, in a sign
that both countries are trying to ease strained relations. Iranian Foreign
Minister Kamal Kharrazi met Schroeder and handed an invitation from Iranian
President Mohammad Khatami, a government spokesman said on customary condition
of anonymity >>>
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Homepage for recently-held International Telecommunications,
Information Technology, Networking and Broadcasting Trade Fair.
Beyond Iran
Sidewalk
Typo
It's such a slight thing, a typo, but it's
the sort of misplaced minutiae that catches an editor's eye -- a wrong letter,
an inverted integer. Not surprising then that this photographic "evidence
of human frailty.
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Jackasses
Een hameh khar hast o maa daareem peeyaadeh meereem.
(There are many jackasses around but we're walking.)
-- Persian proverb
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