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By dAyi Hamid
January 3, 2001
The Iranian
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Weekend millionaires
Suddenly they become the most significant people in the world
By Farid Moghadassi
January, 2001
The Iranian
Since I started college two years ago, I've come across a few young
Iranians like myself and, surprisingly enough, I've gotten along with them
much smoother than with Americans. In high school I only made friends with
Americans. Maybe it has something to do with my new craving for kabob and
rice instead of the old hamburger and chili fries.
What has really amazed me about my new friends is how different some
of them get on weekends. In fact, during weekends some Iranian men suddenly
become the most uniquely gifted, significant, and richest people in the
world >>>
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His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
The old tricks of the special interrogator for Saeed Emami >>>
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Khatami reshuffles his cabinet
BBC Persian Service
President Khatami has submitted to parliament the names of five new
ministers in the biggest reshuffle of his term, five months before the
presidential election. They have been named for the ministries of Agriculture,
Industries and Mines, Culture and Islamic Guidance, Telecommunication,
and Transport. Lara Petrossian talks to Mohammad-Sadegh Javadi-Hesar, a
journalist in Mashad, about the nominees >>>
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Iran, Now a Hotbed of Islamic Reforms
By ROBIN WRIGHT
The Los Angeles Times
January 1, 2001
QOM, Iran--Grand Ayatollah Yusef Saanei issues many of his fatwas sitting
on the floor. Above him, a lone lightbulb dangles from the ceiling and
a slow fan struggles to diminish the searing desert heat in this religious
center of yellow-brick seminaries and mud-brick homes. The austere setting
seems appropriate for one of the dozen most revered clerics in Shiite Islam,
a man who has spent more than half a century in rigorous study of his faith.
Yet Saanei, at 73, has turned out to be a thoroughly modern mullah. >>>
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Taale'been ham shodim
Email to The Iranian: Hello. I am Bahareh B... from Tehran. I
want to know my future. What do you need for it? My date born is:1354/11/8.
More Letters
* NOT the worst racists
Mahmood Kanani writes:
In response to Mr.
Bakhshandeh's email, condemning racism, it appears that he fails to
recognize the racism in his own writing. How has he come to the conclusion
that Iranians are the most racist people in the world? I am sure he must
have had negative experiences but has he gone all around the world and
somehow measured the "racist factor" of each country? (Something
that Mr. Neyshapuori claims to have done) >>>
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* Just needs revenge
Faramarz Kaviani
writes: Another fiction/"Supposed to be real" story from
someone who doesn't even sound convincing and rational when we listen to
his side of story ["PMS"].
It sounds more like a "I wish it was real" tale by someone
who doesn't really know where the actual problem is and just needs revenge.
* Nowhere to turn to
Arian writes: I read your new piece ["Christmas-e
aan saal"]. I can understand the anxiety you described. I had
the same feeling once I came here to the U.S.
To be honest with you, it's really sad that we poor Iranians have nowhere
to turn to. I mean I see the Spanish, Greek, etc., going back to their
country during holidays with great ineterst and they talk about how beautiful
the life is over there >>>
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* You like Iran to be like America
Unlimited Madness
writes: Don't EVER, EVER sent me your FUCKING newsletter again. Your
kind are a disgrace to all Iranians. Siding with the Americans with your
bastard sons and whore daughters.
You like Iran to be like America, don't you? Where people shoot each
other. Where daughters have sex when they are 14. Where wives cheat. Where
gays and lesbians are normal.
FUCK YOU.
Gay: In memory of gay activist Saviz
Shafaii
You are cordially invited by Homan LA, and the Society of Iranian Women
in Los Angeles to an event in memory of Saviz Shafaii on Monday, 22 January
2001. The event will be hosted by Kanoon-e Sokhan, at 7:00 p.m. at the
Community Room of the Santa Monica Mall. Saviz was an Iranian gay activist
and for years advocated for equal rights for all people. In 1972, he gave
the first known public lecture on homosexuality in Iran at Shiraz University
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Khamenei calls on students to be tolerant
TEHRAN,
Jan 3 (AFP) - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on different
student groups Tuesday "to tolerate each other and avoid tensions"
in the universities, television announced. Khamenei who met representatives
of the Islamic Association of Universities, the Office to Consolidate Unity
(OCU), and other student movements in Tehran, urged the students "to
contribute to achieving religious democracy" in Iran >>> FULL
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Three more defendants confess in trial
of 1998 murders
TEHRAN,
Jan 3 (AFP) - Three more defendants confessed at a closed-door trial Wednesday
to involvement in the shock 1998 murders of dissidents which were blamed
on "rogue" intelligence agents, state radio said. Four defendants
were heard Wednesday by Tehran's military tribunal, three of whom confessed
to abetting the murders of Mohammad-Djafar Pouyandeh, Mohammad-Ali Mokhtari,
as well as those of Daryuah Foruhar and his wife Parvaneh Eskandari, radio
added >>> FULL TEXT
262 arrested during a so called "depraved"
new year party in Tehran
TEHRAN,
Jan 3 (AFP) - Police arrested 262 people overnight Sunday, including diplomats
and other foreigners, during a new year party in a northern Tehran villa,
the daily Dorran-e-Emruz reported Wednesday. The newspaper said Arab diplomats,
one British and an Indian were among those arrested, along with more than
100 women >>> FULL TEXT
Chevron pulls out of gas project in Iran:
press
TEHRAN,
Jan 3 (AFP) - US oil giant Chevron pulled out of an investment bid for the
South Pars gas fields in the Persian gulf, following "political pressure"
from Washington, the daily Entekhab newspaper reported Wednesday. "Chevron
recently returned the documents of an invitation to tender for the last
four geographical zones in the exploitation of the South Pars fields",
which cover an area of 1,430 square miles (3,700 square kilometres) in the
Iranian and Qatari territorial waters, the newspaper said >>> FULL
TEXT
Iran consumes 174 million litres of oil
products per day
TEHRAN,
Jan 3 (AFP) - Iran, the world's second largest oil producer, is also a major
consumer of petrol (gasoline) and other oil products with 174 million litres
a day, an official of the National Iranian oil products distribution company,
Ali Aghababai, said Wednesday. In November, he said Tehran had substantially
increased its petrol imports to meet rising national demand, Iran's refineries
being unable to boost their output >>> FULL TEXT
Film industry needs law against censorship
Tehran
(Hambastegi) -- Before he leaves his post, Deputy Culture Minister Seyfollah
Dad should introduce a bill to the Majlis to end censorship in the film
industry >>> FULL TEXT
Iranian Hamlet: Terrible
Tehran
(Hambastegi) -- A strong critique of an Atila Pesiani's adaptation of Shakespeare's
Hamlet in "Qahvej-ye Qajari" >>> FULL TEXT
Tehran conference on Forough
Tehran
(Hambastegi) -- Forough Farrokhzad's poetry and writings will be the subject
of a conference in Tehran in mid-February. You can send your papers to this
address >>> FULL TEXT
Matches resume Thursday amidst controversy
Tehran - January 2 (Iran Sports Press) -- The Azadegan League will
resume on Thursday as Esteghlal and Paykan meet in Azadi stadium. Esteghlal,
suffering from recent suspension of several team players, will have to overcome
the psychological downfall from their encounter against arch rival Persepolis
on December 29 >>> FULL TEXT
BBC
Serial Murders court continues
The trial of 18 people accused of involvement
in the murders of dissident writers and intellectuals two years ago continued
on Wednesday in Tehran. The trial was behind closed doors, but the names
of four more defendants were revealed for the first time by officials. Lara
Petrossian asks one of the victims' son, Siavosh Mokhtari, who has read
the case, if he has more information about the accused >>>
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