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Baba Taher
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Lost at sea
Iran's revolving legal position in the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
Iran's legal position in the Caspian Sea may be summarized as follows:
(a) the division of the Caspian into bands of territorial waters in which
each state would have exclusive sovereignty over the water, seabed, subsoil
and air space, and (b) equitable (no longer necessarily equal) apportionment
of the outer seabed and subsoil into national sectors for the purpose of
exploitation of oil and gas resources. Iran continues to insist, as before,
on the freedom of navigation and fisheries in waters situated outside of
a state's territorial waters. Because of the recent flexibility shown in
Iran's position, the issue of Caspian's future legal regime appears much
closer to resolution that one might expect.
The documents which historically have addressed the issue of Iran's
territorial sovereignty in the Caspian consist of the 1723 Treaty of Alliance
between Iran and Russia and the August 1962 Iran-Soviet memorandum signed
by Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Aram, and Soviet ambassador at Tehran,
Nikolai Pegov. In the first document, Iran ceded to Russia the length of
the Caspian Sea. The treaties that later in 1725, 1732, 1813, 1828, 1881,
1893, 1921, 1954, and 1957 established the Iran-Russian and Iran-Soviet
land boundaries would refer to the Caspian only in terms of where the land
boundary in the west ended and the land frontier in the east began. No
treaty restored to Iran any part of the Caspian Sea until the Aram-Pegov
memorandum in 1962.... GO TO FEATURE
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* World dialogue - with Iran
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hosts international conferences, publishes journals, and provides research
facilities at its Cyprus headquarters to promote dialogue on global and
regional issues. Topics the Centre has focused on include human rights,
the relationship between Islam and the West, sanctions laws, U.S.-Iran
relations.
The website presents up-to-the-minute information on our forthcoming
conference, Children's Rights and Wrongs: A Pre-millennium Evaluation of
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and links to other information resources on children's rights.
The website also includes archives of previous conferences and information
about the Centre for World Dialogue and its publications.
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Anyway
As if there weren't enough...
Rael was a car-race journalist in 1973 in France when he
was contacted by extra-terrestrials (Elohim). Yahweh, the president of
the Elohim, met with Rael in person first on Dec. 13, 1973, and again on
Oct. 7, 1975, and entrusted Rael with a fantastic message, a summary of
which follows.
The message: Elohim are human beings like us but scientifically and
technologically much more advanced than us. They live on another planet
not far from the Earth but outside of our solar system... MEET
RAEL, THE NEW PROPHET
History
Revolution: 1979-1999
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* Iranians: Type 3 personality
Alex Bettesworth writes: Rather than jumping to your own conclusions
["Nargess Shahmanesh: Why insist on being
around Iroonies?"], why not ask yourself if there may be some
validity to what was said. Unlike you, I have been doing my research; and
from that as well as my own experience I can honestly say there is much
to be admired about Iranians as well as much not to be admired. That it
is so strong both ways is what makes it both intriguing and perplexing...
Each personality-type has both healthy aspects and unhealthy ones. What
I have observed with Iranians is that most gravitate around the Type 3
personality which goes by nicknames such as "Producer," "Performer,"
"Status Seeker" and "Succeeder" According to Jerome
Wagner, PhD, author of "The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Types,"
positive descriptions for Type 3 are: efficient, successful, get things
done, motivator, enthusiastic, pragmatic, practical, goal-oriented, energetic,
manager, popular, active, dynamic, multi-faceted, organized, self-assured,
marketer, industrious, team-builder, and competent.
Negative descriptions are: mechanical, get ahead, calculating, impatient,
expedient, workaholic, chameleon-like, scheming, popularizer, image-conscious,
self-promoting, appearances, jet set, success-driven, slick, political,
mesrepresenting, oeverachiever, role-playing, and ignore feelings... FULL TEXT
* Conference: Caspian oil conference,
New York
The Columbia Caspian Project| School of International & Public Affairs
Columbia University in New York City
Presents a conference on Oil & Environmental Security in the Caspian
and Black Seas, October 30, 1998
Place: Kellogg Conference Center, 15th Floor| International Affairs
Building 420 West 118th Street (Amsterdam Avenue) New York, NY 10027 ...
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U.S. condemns arrests in Iran
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The State Department accused Iran of persecuting
members of the Baha'i faith and urged that death sentences against six Baha'i
prisoners be set aside. More than 500 homes and office buildings owned or
rented by Iranian Baha'is have been raided and at least 36 faculty members
from a Baha'i institute arrested, deputy spokesman James Foley said Thursday...
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Tehran to celebrate 1,000th Friday prayers
since revolution
TEHRAN, Oct 29 (AFP) -Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
will personally lead weekly mass prayers in Tehran on Friday to mark the
thousandth such ceremonies here since the 1979 Islamic revolution, the news
media announced Thursday. Communal prayers have been held every Friday throughout
Iran since the revolution, led by clerics representing Khamenei, who is
the top political and religious authority in Iran... FULL TEXT
Rumor: Postponing local council elections
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - There is talk among right-wing
members of the Majlis to postpone local council elections for a year in
order to find a way to prevent moderates from gaining control. The election
has been planned for next February ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN...
490-billion-rial fine!
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - The head of a private company has
been fined 490 billion rials (6,680 rials = 1 dollar) and sentenced to jail
for "trading... and trasferring foreign currency" out of the country
(no more details).
Young chess players march ahead
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Five of the six young Iranians
have won victories in the latest round of world championships in Spain ...
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Negah art galleries
This virtual gallery in Tehran "serves as an open site for established
and emerging visual artists in Iran to display their work. The art is great,
but the web site design work is absolutely terrific.
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web sites... & the Web site of the day - beyond Iran
Quote Unquote
Fat chance
"Khar-e issa beh aasemaan naravad."
(Jesus's donkey will not go to heaven." = Being associated with
the great will not bring greatness.)
From Yousef Jamshidi-pour's "Zarbol masalhaa-ye shirin-e faarsi"
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