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Casting the affirmative vote for Iran in approving the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in 1948
August 12, 2005
Ambassadors
vs. Ambassador
The Unites States and the United Nations
April 9, 2005
The
piano and its stool
How to reform the United Nations
March 22, 2005
A
film buff remembers
A book every movie fan should buy
September 3, 2004
Same
planet, different millennium
Westerners and Muslims, though living on the same planet
and entertaining many contacts, are not contemporaries
April 6, 2004
Only
vegetables have roots
What is needed now is a Declaration of Human Unity
March 15, 2004
Media
mirage
American journalists and Iranian elections
March 5, 2004
A
mystery unravelled
What is it that keeps the IRI in place?
February 13, 2004
Mossadegh
saved the Shah
The prime minister's inaction paved the way for the Shah's
return to power in 1953
September 9, 2003
The
morning after
Sadegh Hedayat at the dawn of the atomic age
August 7, 2003
Monarchy
and theocracy
The Impact of Iranian mythology on the Islamic revolution
April 25, 2003
Escape
from earth
Noah Syndrome
February 7, 2003
Poor
Grand Ayatollah!
On Montazeri's release
February 3, 2003
Fallacism
Italian writer's hatred of Islam has roots in medieval Europe
January 23, 2003
Five
o'clock tea
From my student's days in Beirut
August 7, 2002
100
years gone in a minute
From a forgotten twenty-year-old file
July 30, 2002
Open
your eyes
High time for Muslims to reject once antiquated clerics
and leaders
July 18, 2002
Too
beautiful?
A free and prosperous Palestinian state?
July 3, 2002
Quest
for peace
My secret mission to end the Vietnam
War
March 12, 2002
Pursuit
of happiness
Iran and the American Revolution
February 11, 2002
The
dinosaur
... and the molla
May 3, 2001
Organized
corruption
Why the Iranian economy is almost beyond repair
April 12, 2001
Shah
or president?
We should reject hereditary systems of government
March 14, 2001
Read
or watch?
That is the question in the age of computers
October 27, 2000
Curbing
men
Equal sharing of sexual morality
October 27, 2000
Salt
desert tree
Artist leaves mark in Utah desert
September 25, 2000
Free
elections, 1979
My last audience with the Shah
August 18, 2000
Still
an optimist
Despite a general lack of faith in the future
August 9, 2000
Mystery
report
It could have prevented the invasion of Iran in World War
II
April 6, 2000
Here
to stay
Lamenting our lost roots is unproductive
December 21, 1999
Catching
up
The Muslim world at the threshold of the third millennium
October 5, 1999
Changing
mindsets
Opening closed societies to democracy
August 5, 1999
1999
not 1979
Protest movement has no recognized leader
July 20, 1999
Saving
Jews
The Iranian "Schindler List"
July 9, 1999
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The author
Fereydoun Hoveyda (www.hoveyda.org)
is a Senior Fellow at the National Committee on American Foreign
Policy. As a young Iranian diplomat , he was involved in the preparatory
work for the San Francisco Conference that adopted the Charter
of the U.N. (1945) In 1947 and 1948 he participated in the drafting
and voting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. From 1952
to 1966 he became an international civil servant in UNESCO's Department
of Mass Communications where he specialized in development of free
flow of information in the developing countries. From 1966 to 1970
he represented Iran in the annual General Assembly sessions of
the U.N , as Iranian deputy foreign minister in charge of international
organizations . From 1971 to 1979 , he served as Iran's ambassador
and chief delegate to the United Nations. He is the author
of The
Broken Crescent: The Threat of Militant Islamic Fundamentalism (2002), The
Shah and the Ayatollah, Iranian Mythology and Islamic Revolution (2003).
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