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Baba Taher
Shiraz
Same old, same old
Shiraz in the 1920s
Seventy years after these pictures were taken, Shiraz has developed
into a modern city with more buildings and streets. Shirazis dress a little
differently, too. But has anything really changed. Have we changed
at all?... GO TO FEATURE
Outlook
Thawing US-Iranian ties
Boston Globe Editorial
November 27, 1998
he cultural exchanges first proposed last February by Iranian President
Mohammad Khatami are well under way, and they hold out the promise of a
gradual geopolitical change generated from the grass roots.
The Globe recently hosted a reception and dinner for visiting Iranian
journalists, precisely the sort of sociable event envisioned in Khatami's
initiative. One of the Iranian visitors expressed his country's preference
for a gradual warming of relations by saying that one can exit a 10-story
building fastest by jumping out the window, but the safest way to get back
down to ground level is to walk down 10 flights of stairs... FULL TEXT
Foruhar petition drive
Petition drive by the Iran National Front, USA, in coordination with
Iranian Human Rights Working Group and Democratic Network of Iran
To: The Honorable Mary Robinson
United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland
We are outraged to learn of the brutal and gruesome killing of two prominent
opposition leaders in Iran, Mr. Dariush Forouhar and Mrs. Parvaneh Eskandari-Forouhar
on Sunday, November22, 1998. We are sending this fax/e-mail to you to ask
for your expression of condemnation and outrage against this extra-judicial
execution. We are also very concerned about the safety and security of
other opposition members in Iran, including Mr. Abbas Amir-Entezam who
remains in jail.... MORE DETAILS
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* Iranians exceptionally diverse
Massi Behbahani writes: I commend Alex Bettesworth for his attempted insight into the
psyche of the Iranian, however, it is virtually impossible to classify
Iranians into a personality category and apply adjectives to them, be they
positive or negative. Our country and people are exceptionally diverse,
and made even more so by the fact that a new generation of Iranians has
grown up all over the world and integrated the Iranian culture with that
of another. Some chose to integrate the negative aspects of their new culture,
be that the American culture or that of another, with the negative aspects
of the Iranian culture. If that is the case, they have chosen the worst
of both worlds and suffer for it ... FULL
TEXT
* Treated like a queen
S. Khanoom writes: I want to respond to C. Mohamadi about Iranians being "backstabbing."
I am an American women with an Iranian boyfriend. I feel that your comment
was unnecessary and unfounded about all Iranians. Not only did you make
yourself look bad but also other American women. You do not deserve to
be married to an Iranian man. All Iranians are not the same just like all
Americans are mot the same either.
I am very happy with my relationship with my boyfriend. Not only do
I love him but also his family. I have been treated like a queen by all
members and I have never felt so much love. Maybe you should take a look
in the mirror and try to find the real reasons.
* Forouhar meomrial:
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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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Norway to send ambassador back to Iran
OSLO, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Norway said on Friday
it would reinstate an ambassador in Tehran in the New Year after cutting
ties in 1995 over a shooting connected with the Salman Rushdie affair. The
Norwegian Foreign Ministry said Norway had decided to reestablish contacts
after assurances in September from the Iranian government it would not assist
or reward anyone carrying out the religious fatwa, or decree, permitting
the killing of Rushdie. It said there had been ``other positive developments''
in Iran... FULL TEXT
Iran talks about American attack
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The 13 U.S. ``tourists''
attacked by Islamic militants in Tehran last week were members of a business
delegation exploring investment opportunities, Iran disclosed today. Some
of the Americans were injured when extremists chanting ``Death to America,''
used stones and metal bars Saturday to smash the windows of their bus...
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Militants back attack on Americans
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Hundreds of hard-liners
in three cities showed their support Friday for an attack on a bus carrying
Americans last week, burning 13 U.S. flags -- one for each person on the
bus. The protests were in defiance of President Mohammad Khatami, who one
day earlier had condemned last Saturday's attack as a national disgrace
and ``an insult to the government.'' ... FULL TEXT
Iranian intellectual dies in suspicious
circumstances
TEHRAN, Nov 26 (AFP) - Magid Sharif, an Iranian writer,
journalist and translator close to liberal opposition circles, has died
here in suspicious circumstances, it was learned here Thursday from associates
and a newspaper. According to the moderate newspaper Hamshahri, the official
organ of Tehran municipality, the 58-year-old Sharif "apparently died
of a heart attack" on November 19. Sharif had left his home after telling
his family that he was going to the eastern city of Mashhad to attend the
funeral of an Iranian religious figure... FULL TEXT
Dissident clergyman released in Iran
London, November 26, (BBC) - A religious court
in Iran has given a suspended prison sentence to one of the country's prominent
dissident clergymen, Mohsen Saiedzadeh. He was arrested in June, but charges
against him were never made public... FULL TEXT
"Iranian Orchestra of New Persian
Music"
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Alireza Mashayekhi is the founder
of the Iranian Orchestra of New Persian Music. Here's an interview ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
Shahnameh guide published
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - A book listing all the names
of persons and places in the Shahnameh has been published by Hossein Shahidi
Mazandarani ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Iran, U.S. may play in late spring
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - If approved, Iran and the U.S.
will play a friendly soccer match in the month of Khordad (Amy 22-June21
1999), said the head of the Iranian soccer federation in an interview ...
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