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Sa'di
Fiction
All Roads Merged
Follow the stream, Arash thought
By Babak Morvarid
The bakery had three workers, all three looking very much alike. They
had white aprons on with a white cloth over their heads so as to keep the
hair from the dough. It didn't matter if it did, but they wore them anyway.
To the back was the oven, made of brick and its fire visible through the
hole where the dough entered and bread came out. Two of the men made the
bread. One would pound and spread the dough and the other would slap it
onto the pebbly stone walls of the oven. The shape of the dough before
entering the oven was pointed at the top and inwardly curved at the bottom,
extended along its length as a hyperbolic curve.
The third baker was the one who greeted the customers with a toothy
smile, over a thick mustache. They all had mustaches, whitened by flour.
"Salaam-aleikom," he said to Arash. "Salaam," said
Arash. "I want two, please." "Chashm, aziz," said the
baker, "Yes, of course." ... GO TO FEATURE
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Tintin's 70 years of adventure
(BBC) - He may well look like a young boy, but the intrepid cartoon
reporter Tintin is 70 on Sunday.
He and his dog Snowy made their first appearance on 10 January 1929
in the Belgian newspaper Le Petit Vingtieme in the first episode of a comic
strip "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets".
The character's creator was Georges Remi, better known as Herge, and
he launched Tintin into scores of adventures over the next 20 years.
More than 3m books of Tintin's escapades are sold each year, in 58 languages.
There have also been films, TV series, videos and toys ... FULL TEXT
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Mohsen Pourett writes: Really funny! ["National crisis"] Enjoyed it . I would have said
"two thumbs up" (well maybe one, gholov cheraa?) but I was afraid
it might be interpreted as a Persian thumbs up! Keep up the good work.
* Lengesh kon
Ajayebi writes: [Regarding "Just pretend we have no oil"], it's easy to sit
outside and say "lengesh kon." does this self-professing economist
have a plan that would work to get the country out of its dependency on
oil and into an industrial track?
Agar mardeh, why doesn't he outline a plan to achieve this jump within
the confines of the current social, economic atmosphere?
* Lecture: Murderers of dissidents on
trial, Berkeley
The Ad hoc Committee for Defense of Freedom and Democracy in Iran in
protest to the killings of dissidents in Iran will hold a public trial
for those responsible for the killings.
Speakers (in Persian):
* Dr. Bagher Parham
Topic: Association of Iranian Writers and Its Role in the Transformations
in Contemporary Iran
* Dr. Abbas Milani
Topic: Civil Society and Political Crisis in Iran
With the video of a memorial service for Parvaneh & Dariush Forouhar,
Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad Pouyandeh in Iran.
Time: Saturday January 23, at 7:30
Place: First Congregational Church, 2345 Channing Way at Dana, Berkeley
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TEHRAN, Jan 20 (AFP) - The alleged murderers of Iranian intellectuals
and dissidents will be put on public trial shortly, a military official
announced Wednesday. "They will be tried in public and can have a defense
lawyer," a prosecutor of the Tehran military tribunal Mohammad Niazi
said in an interview broadcast on state television ... FULL TEXT
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dorri-najafabadi will stay in his post until the end of the current iranian
year ending march 21, and "most probably he will be replaced by ali
yunesi," an informed source told the daily 'tehran times'. yunesi is
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conducted an inquiry into the recent murders of dissident politicians and
writers, added the article in the paper, published wednesday.
TV chief regrets airing anti-Khatami program
Tehran, Jan. 20, IRNA - The president of the islamic republic of
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stated that part of the tv program 'cheragh' had violated the irib policy
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Iran sets petroleum exports at $12.1 bln
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TEHRAN, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Iran is planning
to earn $12.1 billion from its petroleum exports in the next Iranian year
under a budget measure approved on Wednesday. In a session broadcast on
Tehran radio, parliament deputies passed the measure forecasting $10.6 billion
in crude exports and $1.5 billion in exports of petroleum products and liquefied
natural gas in the year starting on March 21 ... FULL TEXT
Russia defends nuclear fuel sale
MOSCOW (AP) -- The nuclear fuel Russia plans
to supply to Iran for a power plant cannot be used to build nuclear weapons,
a top Russian official said Wednesday. Russia signed an $800 million deal
with Iran in 1995 to help build a 1,000-megawatt light-water nuclear reactor
in Bushehr. The United States and Israel have strongly criticized the project,
saying it might help Iran obtain technology needed to develop nuclear weapons
... FULL TEXT
Iran's "Green Film Festival"
Tehran, Department of the Environment press release: The first
international film festival focused on the living environment will be held
in Iran in February 1999. Dr. Yousef Hojjat, deputy-managing director for
training and planning at the Department of the Environment has announced
the dates of February 28th to March 5th 1999 for the first international
film festival to be organized around environmental issues ... FULL TEXT
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has taken first place with 28 points. Saipa is second ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Climbing the road against the flow of the stream, Arash felt the comfort
of being alone without being lonely. It had all melted in his soul, the
walls and the doorways, the bread and the stream and the call from down
the road. He was home and he would know it years later when he wasn't.
Babak Morvarid
"All Roads Merged"
The Iranian
January 20, 1999
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