March 27, 1998
The Iranian

The following are other interesting candidates for Iranian of the Year as suggested by poll participants:

Voters: Participation

* The Iranian of the Year is the Iranian voter in the last presidential election without whose ardent participation in the process, the Iranian republican experience would have been less real.

Guive Mirfendereski
<Guive@aol.com>

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Voters: 20 million

* The Iranians of the Year are the 20 milliion people of Iran who voted for Khatami.

Janet Afary
<afary@purdue.edu>

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Tour guide, Kioomars Ghaffari

* As my guide on three recent trips to Iran took a Westerner who knew nothing about Iran and taught me a great appreciation for the country and a love for its people. Mr.Ghaffari took me into his home and along with his family and friends made me truly get a feel for life in Iran as it really is today.

Stuart Redding
<stuart.redding5@sympatico.ca>

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Moori

* My choice for the Iranian of the Year is the Moori muppet from the SalAm BachehA show on Aftab television (U.S. cable). He brought a smile to my face, and many other faces I'm sure, every time he showed up on the screen.

Shadi Ziaie
<shadi@netvista.net>

I am Yassaman Nour

* This is Yassaman Nour, daughter of Mr. Foad Nour a famous movie producer and movie theater owner in Tehran, Iran. I would like to say more about myself, so that maybe I can be the Iranian of the Year.

I'm 20 years old and I finished movie directing in Tehran in the spring 1996. I made four short movies when I was in Tehran. In addition, my father never helped me with that! Anyway those four movies were my first experiences that I had at the age of 18. After that there was a youth film festival in Tehran and one of my movies won many prizes over there and my father was so proud of me.

Anyway after that on September 1996 I had a trip to Germany and France, for film festivals. In Paris I met a nice lady from the United States of America movie industry and she was interested to see my movies and get to know me more. After spending two weeks in Paris and two meetings with her, she invited me to the U.S.! She was almost begging me to come to U.S. and continue my education here, if I was interested.

I liked to come and see the lifestyle in U.S., but not to stay and study. I talked to my parents and they didn't want to miss their only daughter, but my father was interested for me to come to the U.S. to just visit for a few months. My visa came from the embassy and there wasn't any doubt that I'm coming to U.S.

I came to the U.S.,I went to Texas to see my aunt that I had never seen before in my life. I saw the campus and my parents liked me to stay here and finish my education here beside my aunt.I stayed and started school here in San Antonio,Texas. I went to California to visit some friends over there and I visited the UCLA campus, so that I could transfer later on in the fall '98.

I'm countinuing my education here. This is an apportunity that the U.S. gave me to study, so why should I miss it? I miss my family a lot. All the productions I have done are always first here in the university. All my instructors always tell me that "I'm proud of having you in my class."

Also, I won the tennis championship at my university and I got the first place in the women's tennis team. All my classmates are happy and proud to have me in their class. I have an movie project due in two months. They never thought that an Iranian girl can do this much good in just one year that I'm here.

Anyway that was the story of me! I know there are a lot of Iranians in the U.S. who are the best in their job, school,... I didn't do that much important things, but the only thing was that, I didn't spend much time here in the U.S. and I did have many sucsseses on my own in these few past months.

I just know a few Iranians around here in Los Angeles and California. I saw this massage in my email and I was thinking maybe I can introduce myself to Iranians across the USA and maybe I can be #1 on the Iranian web pages.

Yassaman Nour
<yasamannour@hotmail.com>

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Related links

* Iranian of the Year 1997 index
* Cover stories
* Who's who
* Bookstore

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