Interview
Fighter
Interview with female boxer Kina Elyassi
February 23, 2001
The Iranian
I have always strived to be the best I could be in anything I was a
part of. Women's boxing at the amateur and professional level is growing
rapidly and will more than likely be an Olympic sport at the 2004 games
in Athens, Greece. It is now my goal to become the first woman ever to
win an Olympic gold medal in the sport >>>
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Music
Bijan Mofid
Two great musicals
February 23, 2001
The Iranian
Here are the original performance of Shahr-e Qesseh and Mah
o Palang by the late theatrical genius Bijan Mofid >>>
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Art
Azaadi-ye bayaan
Posters: Freedom of expression
By Amirali Ghassemi
February 23, 2001
The Iranian
Three poster designs freedom of expression by Amirali Ghassemi, a young
artist in Iran >>>
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Art
Lalehzar lives
Cartoons
By Mahmoud M.
February 23, 2001
The Iranian
Various cartoons by Mahmoud M. Thanks to Soroush Motahari for forwarding
them >>>
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Travel
Let's go
Travel package for young Iranians abroad
By Hanieh Bastani & Parichehr Kooshesh
February 23, 2001
The IranianWe are young Iranians (18 and 19-years old) who grew
up in America. We have organized two-week tours designed especially with
the Iranian-American college student in mind >>>
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Food
Persian cooking
This week's recipe
By Pari Ardalan Malek
February 23, 2001
The Iranian
This week's recipe: >>>
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Outlook
Right v right
The Economist
Feb 22nd 2001
TEHRAN
WHATEVER their differences, President Muhammad Khatami and Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, are both dedicated to protecting the
Islamic republic. If Iran's leaders ignore the people's demands, said the
president this month, "no military, legal or security force will be
able to save the country." The supreme leader, it seems, may agree.
At any rate, he is now endeavouring to rein back the most radical of his
hard-right supporters >>>
FULL TEXT
Calls for stricter Islamic codes for diplomats
BBC Persian Service
A member of the Guardians Council, Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, said on
Friday that the Islamic codes should be strictly applied to all issues
of Iran's foreign relations >>>
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He said that?
There is a new political satire section on the MP3 site. It's about
the Iranian supreme leader's speeches, which have been cleverly edited
to make him appear to be saying -- let's say, unusual -- things >>> HERE
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While I respect every person's right to their opinion, I find a disturbing
double-standard in the author's treatment of history ["The
general's widow"]. It is utterly abject to treat General Rahimi's
story with such emotion and sensation while the by-orders-of-magnitude
less guilty and less-deserving-of-execution Dr. Fatemi receives an oh-so-sorry-it-happened
mention sprinkled with the "dasto-del-bAziyeh AryAmehri" to his
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Sciolino is a renowned expert on Iran. I consider her more an Iranian than
most Iranians. Recently, I have heard a few derogatory comments about her
works, in plural. I personally will halt effective immediately, association,
affiliation, and contributions in any manner to any organisations that
are the self-serving rogue origin of such comments and strongly urge you
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* Far from pretentious
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writes: I know some of the guys in the paintings by Mani Gholami ["Happy"].
They are art students. You are right. These paintings are very close to
that hidden world of Iranian "in-door" life. In this sense they
are far from the pretentious style of other Iranian contemporary painters.
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shomaa dar Iranian.com hastim ["Sadaf
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Noruz: Celebrations
in U.S.
Film: Maryam
in Bay Area
Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
My love for you will surely be loyal;
This marriage of fancy must become real.
What I feel in my heart, what I do for you,
Isn't bad, but it could be better still.
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Quote Unquote
General Rahimi
I have every sympathy in the world toward Mrs. Rahimi. But I feel like
a true traitor to the Iranian people, and indeed to humanity, when I place
her pain and hurt above those of Mrs. Fatemi and thousands of political
prisoners and civilians murdered/tortured savagely by his Imperial Majesty,
Shahanshah Aryamehr and his generals.
-- Aref Erfani
Letter
to The Iranian
February 23, 2001
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