Friday January 12, 2001 / Dey 23, 1379, No. 1144

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Rumi translation Reaction Please stop Reactions to The Iranian Times emails January 12, 2001 The Iranian Reaction from people who do not want to receive emails from The Iranian Times. Each comment is from a different person. They are in order -- from the very polite to... >>> GO TO FEATURE Elections By Mohandes January 12, 2001 The Iranian >>> GO TO FEATURE Book His red-robed highness Exposing Iran's dirty secrets By Akbar Ganji The Iranian His red-robed highness, dialogue & intellectuals >>> GO TO FEATURE Outlook No news of the whereabouts of the jailed reformists BBC Persian Service Relatives and associates of Ezzatollah Sahabi, managing director of banned Iran Farda and Alireza Afshari, student leader, say they have been frustrated in their efforts to obtain information about them. There has been no news of the whereabouts of the two reformist politicians for more than a week. Afshin Amirzadeh talks to Reza Alijani, Iran Farda's editor >>> LISTEN Reza Pahlavi declares new phase in struggle MCLEAN, Va., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, in an unprecedented 20 minute television broadcast to Iran, Reza Pahlavi called on all Iranians to join ranks in national opposition to the theocratic regime. "Twenty two years of isolation, economic chaos and brutal suppression is jeopardizing the future of our nation and especially our youth," said the 40-year-old leader >>> AUDIO & VIDEO Anyway Cute I want a baby elephant >>> SEE HERE Thanks to Zara Houshmand CORRECTION: In Thursday's edition there were several mistakes in the blurb about Deep Dish. First of all, the band is nominated for a Grammy, not an Emmy. Secondly the names of the guys who make up Deep Dish are Ali Shirazinia and Shahram Tayebi (not Shahriar) and they play house music (not housemix). Good grief. Good thing I didn't write more than a sentence. >>> HERE Nostalgia .. Jaleh Karimi and..., 1975 .. .. More Letters * Complain to the Iranian government Guive Mirfendereski writes: There is nothing illegal about the U.S. government's security policy, not even in singling Iranian-passports, Iran-bound and persons of Iranian origin for the treatment. The national security argument is paramount and will probably be upheld by the courts. This is no different than the imposition of trade restrictions, travel restrictions, or hauling in the Iranian students at the time of the Carter presidency to answer to the INS officials. Security aside, the policy also irritates the Iranians in the hope that the vexation will then force the Iranians to force their government to mend its ways. Well, may be instead of viewing these incidents as a sort of due process violations by the United States government, the aggrieved need to complain directly to the Iran Interests Section in Washington, the Iran Mission at the U.N., and the Iranian Foreign Ministry in Tehran. No matter how one slices it, the suffering of the Iranians in this area is linked to the Amercian displeasure with the Iranian government >>> FULL TEXT Satire .. Could you give me a hand? .. More Community announcements Literature: Persian poetry conference, London Modern Persian Poetry: Poetry of Iran and the Persian speaking world. A three day conference, London, 17 - 19 May 2001. Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London The aim of this conference is to look at recent studies on modern poetry as one of the most dynamic varieties of Persian literary form, and in a comparative literature context >>> DETAILS Books     State and Society in Iran The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergenece of the Pahlavis By Homa Katouzian     Ta'aamol-e din va siyaasat dat iraan By Mousa Najafi THE IRANIAN Bookstore Music store Poem Translation of today's poem by Zara Houshmand: The many sighs your loss has dragged from me Can only gratify my enemy. Soul of my world, the pain of your going Breaks my heart with yours even knowing. * Also see more Rumi translations Rumi book Rumi: The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi By Frankin D. Lewis Staff * Publisher/Editor: Jahanshah Javid -- jj@iranian.com * News & the Web: Payman Arabshahi -- payman@neda.com * The Web: Pedram Missaghi, webmaster "Iran Media" -- info@nima3.com Copyright © Abadan Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved. May not be duplicated or distributed in any form   Web Site Design by Multimedia Internet Services, Inc   Internet server by Global Publishing Group.

More news Lawyer for murder victims' families reported out on bail TEHRAN, Jan 12 (AFP) - The lawyer for the families of two murdered Iranian dissidents, who was jailed for alleging that a series of killings at the end of 1998 were part of a wider plot, has been freed on bail, a student news agency said. Nasser Zarafshan, who represented the relatives of murdered writers Mohammed Mokhtari and Mohammad Pouyandeh, was released Wednesday on bail of 400 million rials (60,000 dollars), the ISNA agency reported >>> FULL TEXT Moroccan prime minister to make first visit to Iran TEHRAN, Jan 12 (AFP) - Prime Minister Abderrahmane Youssoufi will make the first visit to Iran by a Moroccan head of government since the Islamic revolution on Tuesday, the Iranian foreign ministry said Friday. Youssoufi, who will be accompanied by several unidentified ministers and businessmen, will sign a number of economic agreements between Rabat and Tehran, spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said >>> FULL TEXT Starving Afghan refugees receive aid from Iran KUNDUZ REFUGEE CAMP, Afghanistan, Jan 12 (AFP) - Some 13,000 refugees, huddled in a makeshift camp on the Afghan-Tajik border, received some relief from misery and starvation with the Thursday shipment of humanitarian aid from Iran. 40 tonnes of flour, butter, canned food and blankets were handed over to the refugees, who fled the advancing Taliban army and are now suffering from cold, diseases and hunger >>> FULL TEXT Gerald Levin - from Time-Warner chief to AOL No. 2 NEW YORK(Reuters) - Gerald Levin, who spent nearly three decades with Time Warner Inc. companies and was in charge of the media giant for the last eight years, will be in the unfamiliar position of sharing the spotlight with Steve Case, a man nearly 20 years his junior, after the merger with America Online. Born in Philadelphia on May 6, 1939, Levin graduated from Haverford College in 1960 and received a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. He was an attorney in New York City for four years and later worked for Development and Resources Corp., an international investment and management company, during which he served for a year in Iran >>> FULL TEXT Zaki Yamani warns on cuts LONDON (AP) -- For world oil prices to remain stable, OPEC members must not cut their crude production until Iraq ends its partial suspension of petroleum exports, an influential former Saudi Arabian oil minister said Thursday. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries has already decided to curtail output by at least 1.5 million barrels a day -- or 5 percent -- when its representatives meet next week in Vienna, Austria, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani said.>>> FULL TEXT BBC History of Iranian performing arts A seven-part program produced by filmmaker Shahrokh Golestan. Here's PART THREE >>> LISTEN HERE BBC Persian Service Exchange rate Updated January 8 Buying: 790 to 794 tomans per dollar Selling: 808 to 810 tomans per dollar CALL TOLL FREE: 877-SEHHATY (877-734-4289) or 800-995-0264 Mention this code for a better rate: FA 37 B Business news The Web Iran Iran Namayesh Iranian theater site created on the occasion of the Fajr theater festival. Beyond Iran Museum of useful things "Welcome to the Museum of Useful Things, celebrating the Beauty of Function in everyday objects." More web sites Quote Unquote Good and Bad There is so much good in the worst of us And so much bad in the best of us, That it hardly becomes any of us To talk about the rest of us. -- Edward Wallis Hoch "Good and Bad" Photo of the Day Religious poster Iranian of the Day Shiraz Ali: ? Music Dariush Music artists index Art Farideh Azar Untitled