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Where on earth?
People looking for long-lost relatives & friends
About a year ago we stopped posting messages from people searching for
lost fathers, friends or childhood pals. Maintaining the Lost & Found
page was difficult and time-consuming. But the messages keep pouring in.
We have listed some of the messages received in recent weeks.
There are a lot of people out there looking for that someone special
in their lives. Are you that person? Do you know that person? If so, make
someone happy -- really happy ... GO TO FEATURE
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Forouhars fought valiantly for human rights
By Martin Regg Cohn
Toronto Star
Middle East Bureau
November 27, 1998
A month ago, [dissident Dariush Forouhar and his wife Parvaneh] were
serving us tea and biscuits on fine china, attentive hosts even as they
voiced outrage over Iran's human rights abuses.
She with her radiant beauty and earnest ideals, he with his handlebar
moustache and dignified tone; they were among Iran's most enduring dissidents.
They smiled and joked as they walked us down the stairs of their Tehran
home later that night, momentarily forgetting their deadly serious struggle.
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Scram Bled Eggs
From The Times of London: "Lost and floundering in the
English language," November 13, 1998:
The menu for room service at the Laleh International Hotel, Tehran,
offers "Fish Cheeps", "Scram Bled Eggs" and "Portass
Steak". That is not globe-trotting gastronomy from the horse's mouth.
The menu was sent to me by a Scottish friend. And it illustrates an English
joke as old as Shakespeare and Chaucer: the funny way that foreigners have
with the funny English language.
Forwarded by Payman Arabshahi
More Letters
* Iranians not racist (part 2)
Khodadad Rezakhani writes: We have a whole lot of problems, all of them
deserving a book in their honor! But what we don't have is a racial problem
toward fellow Iranians. None of us want a collection of small states instead
of a greater Iran... FULL
TEXT
* Forouhar meomrial: New York
Nation's Party of Iran (abroad) Organizations of National Front of Iran
- New York
Wake for Daryoosh and Parvaneh Forouhar
Jebhe Melli Iran (New York) and the Nation's Party of Iran are having
a program in New York on December 4th in Columbia University's Hamilton
Hall, Room 602. The program will start at 6:30 P.M.
Place: Hamilton Hall, Room 602 Columbia University Manhattan, New York
Broadway & 116th Streert
All are invited to attend
Book of the Week
Soon: Tales from Hospice
By A. G. Mojtabai
Zoland Books, 1998
The Boston Globe writes: Mojtabai had led an unconventional
but cosmopolitan life in New York, Iran, and Cambridge, where she held an
appointment at Harvard; in Amarillo she unexpectedly found home. For several
years she has been a volunteer worker in the hospice at St. Anthony's Hospital
in Amarillo, and the 17 miraculous stories in ''Soon'' come out of that
experience... READ MORE
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Newspaper calls execution by stoning un-Islamic
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - Execution by stoning is a practice at odds
with the tenets of Islam and should be suspended immediately, a moderate
Iranian newspaper charged on Monday. "This practice does not conform
to the tradition of the Prophet (Mohammad) and is not mentioned in the holy
Koran," said the moderate women's newspaper Zan, run by Faezeh Hashemi,
daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani... FULL TEXT
Police prevent march to protest murder
of opposition leader
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (AFP) - Iranian police on Monday prevented around
1,000 people seeking to march in Tehran Monday following a memorial service
for slain nationalist opposition leader Dariush Foruhar and his wife. Witnesses
said the mourners started to march in the streets after the service demanding
an end to "repression and insecurity," but police immediately
ordered the crowd to disperse... FULL TEXT
Must read: Recent events & Khatami's
reactions
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - An analysis of President Khatami's
reactions to the murder of the Forouhars and the attack on the American
visitors ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Budget to triple petrol price for heavy
users
TEHRAN, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The Iranian government,
facing crippling costs for fuel subsidies, has proposed effective quotas
for petrol consumption and a big jump in prices for heavy users, press reports
said on Monday. The new budget for the next fiscal year, presented to parliament
on Sunday, includes increases in petrol prices to 250 rials (eight U.S.
cents) per litre from 200 rials for the first 45 litres purchased each month,
Iranian newspapers said... FULL TEXT
"Khordad" New pro-Khatami paper
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Abdollah Nouri, a former interior
minister and current vice president, will launch a new newspaper on Saturday.
"Khordad" is named after the Iranian month Mohammad Khatami won
his landslide election ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
"The Jerk": A serious comedy
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Mohammad Reza Honarmand
gets high marks for a masterful direction of "Mard-e avazi" (The
Jerk), a comedy that is on the same level as Mehrjuie's "Ejaareh-neshin-haa"
(The Tenants) ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Athletes arrive in Bangkok
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Iranian teams gradually arrive
in Bangkok for the Asian Games. A report from the Thai capital ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Tin
Tin
The cartoon character who's adventures were so popular in
Iran. This site is in French.
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Quote Unquote
Abandoned
On the18th of Bahman 1349 (February 1971) an infant girl, approximately
7-30 days old, was found near Shah Abdulazim mosque in Tehran. If anybody
knows anything regarding this matter..., please contact me.
Owjan Pour Metrahi
"Where on earth?"
The Iranian
November 30, 1998
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