The Iranian Times

Tuesday June 29, 1999 / Tir 8, 1378, No. 758


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Opinion

Not about Khatami
All about the younger citizens who are prepared to take a stand

By Mehrdad Emadi-Moghadam
June 29, 1999
The Iranian

I think as Iranians, we owe this to ourselves to raise the profile of what is happening in Iran. We do not need to be in agreement with President Khatami and his government. This is not about him! The appeal is on behalf of many Iranians who during my nine days in Iran kept asking me, "Why is it that nobody in the West takes our struggle seriously and help us?" Help for them did not mean sending troops. Or intervening in their struggle against the so-called conservatives. I think it was more like why there is so little said about what we have achieved and trying to?

I believe that Iran today is similar to Spain in the last few years of Franco and Greece under the colonels. The outcome is not certain but there are many encouraging signs that after all these years, we may earn the right to live in a democratic society ... GO TO FEATURE

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Political "crimes"

June 29, (Hamshahri) - The Islamic Human Rights Commission in Iran has published the draft of a bill, apparently prepared by Justice Ministry officials, which criminalizes a wide range of non-violent political acts ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN


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From Mars with love

This valentine from Mars is actually a pit formed by collapse within a straight-walled trough known in geological terms as a graben ... GO TO MARS

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* Common root

Arman Sepehri writes: I enjoyed the great humor and true points of view in the article "Khiyaar Chambar".

Just to help the writer find the rest of the 100 words, here are some other examples like "bad" for 'bad", "no" for "new", "nah" for "no" and "behtar" for "better" and what about "abroo" for "eyebrow"?

However, the reality is, most of these similarities are due to a common root rather than words being adopted from this to that language. A good example is the verb "ast" (or hast) in Farsi which is "ist" in German, "est" in French, "es" in Spanish and "is" in English.

Indeed from linguistic point of view, there are seven or eight main branches of Indo-European languages where Persian is one of the main branches and English is a sub-branch of German.

* Az cheh guri... ?

B. Mortazavi writes: Regarding your article "I must be a Jew" ... What a bunch of nonsense! az cheh guri did you guys crawl out of? The title of your article should have been "I MUST BE AN IDIOT".


* Conference: Iranian Americans as minorities

This is to inform you that on Thursday, July 1st, there will be a hearing before the Small Business Economic Vitality and Consumer Services Committee regarding the ordinance to provide inclusion of Iranian Americans as recognized minorities.

It is required that some 30 people show up in this hearing. Not everyone will need to speak, but we need to present about six cases of discrimination against Iranians, preferably related to work or getting contracts ... DETAILS HERE


Book of the Week

The Legend of the Persian Carpet

By Tomie De Paola

    Children who've been told of the diamond's legendary hardness may question the ease with which this one is shattered. A king, accustomed to dwelling in a light-filled room where a large diamond creates a million rainbows, is bereft when it's stolen and smashed, and thereafter takes his only pleasure in staring at the fragments, away from the subjects who need him. An apprentice weaver comes up with the idea of making a magnificent carpet that will lure the king back to his duties. It works. But, unfortunately, neither the words nor the art here convincingly suggests the lure of the diamond's prismatic play or the carpet's intricate patterns. Readers will have to take these on faith. Still, Ewart's illustrations are prettily evocative of old Persia, and perhaps the tale will pique interest in this ancient art form ... GO TO BOOK

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So little said

I think as Iranians, we owe this to ourselves to raise the profile of what is happening in Iran. We do not need to be in agreement with President Khatami and his government. This is not about him! The appeal is on behalf of many Iranians who during my nine days in Iran kept asking me, "Why is it that nobody in the West takes our struggle seriously and help us?" Help for them did not mean sending troops. Or intervening in their struggle against the so-called conservatives. I think it was more like why there is so little said about what we have achieved and trying to?

Mehrdad Emadi-Moghadam
"Not about Khatami"
The Iranian
June 29, 1999


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