The Iranian Features
April 3-7, 2000 / Farvardin 15-19, 1379
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* Film:
Farewell to Fardin
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 54
Recent
* Iranian
of the year: Symbol of evolution
* Iranian
of the year: Nabavi for president!
* History:
Mystery report
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 53
* Iranian
of the year: Whistleblower
* Art:
Cris in the dark
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 52
* Iranian
of the year: Whistleblower
* Art:
Cris in the dark
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 52
* Iranian
of the year: Messenger of hope
* Iranian
of the year: Point of no returen
* Novel:
Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter
51
* Cover
story: Iran's Galileo
* Novel:
Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter
49 & 50
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Friday
April 7, 2000
Film
Farewell to Fardin
Death of legendary actor marks end of an era
By Farzan Navab
April 7, 2000
The Iranian
To many in my generation Mohammad Ali Fardin was a legend.Yet to most
Iranian intellectuals he remained an over-rated actor who represented a
commercial cinema that was an embarrassment to our national identity.
Fardin's death in Tehran yesterday no doubt is the end of an era in
Iranian social history, an era which was marked with social innocence on
the one hand and coming of age on the other >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Fifty-Four >>>
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Thursday
April 6, 2000
Iranian of the year
Saeed Hajjarian
Symbol of evolution
April 6, 2000
The Iranian
Saeed Hajjarian, a former intelligence chief, senior advisor to President
Khatami and publisher of the reformist Sobh-e Emrooz newspaper,
received the fifth highest number of votes (nearly 7 percent) in the Iranian
of the year survey >>>
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Iranian of the year
Ebrahim Nabavi
Nabavi for president!
April 6, 2000
The Iranian
Satirist Ebrahim Nabavi received the sixth highest number of votes
(nearly 5 percent) in the Iranian of the year survey >>>
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History
Mystery report
It could have prevented the invasion of Iran in World War
II
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
April 6, 2000
The Iranian
Anoshiravan Sepahbody was Iran's ambassador in Ankara from 1940 to 1944.
In early July 1941, Ismet Inonu, then Turkey's President had urgently called
him and divulged that the British ambassador had mentioned the question
of Iran and the indifference of Tehran concerning the Allies warnings about
the German technicians in Iran... My uncle had immediately informed Tehran
about Inonu's confidential views, but had received no answer to his report.
... Why did he not respond to the Allies or at least discuss with them
the ways to control the activities of German experts working for the Iranian
government? >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Fifty-Three >>>
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Wednesday
April 5, 2000
Iranian of the year
Akbar Ganji
Whistleblower
April 5, 2000
The Iranian
The fourth highest number of votes (11 percent) in the Iranian of
the year survey went to journalist Akbar Ganji. >>>
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Art
Cries in the dark
Paintings by Bijan N. Sharif
April 5, 2000
The Iranian
The tortured souls in Bijan Sharif's paintings are in sharp contrast
to the happy faces on his puppets. Sharif has made 46 puppets for children's
theater and TV programs in Iran. But what he has offered adults is anything
but the sweet and innocent world of children. It's more terrifying than
the opposite >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Fifty-Two >>>
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Tuesday
April 4, 2000
Iranian of the year
Mohammad Khatami
Messenger of hope
April 4, 2000
The Iranian
Mohammad Khatami, who had been picked as the Iranian of the year
in the previous two years, received the second highest number of votes
in our latest survey. Nearly 20 percent of the readers of The Iranian
who took part in the survey chose the president as the their favorite personality
of the past year >>>
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Iranian of the year
Student movement
Point of no return
April 4, 2000
The Iranian
The students who took to the streets in July of last year to demand
greater freedoms received the third highest number of votes in our survey.
Nearly 13 percent of the readers of The Iranian who took part in
the survey said they deserved to be recognized as Iranians of the year
>>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Fifty-One >>>
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Monday
April 3, 2000
Cover story
Iran's Galileo
Readers choose Iranians of the year
April 3, 2000
The Iranian
Abdollah Nouri received the most votes in the Iranian of the year
survey. Nearly 21 percent of the readers of The Iranian who took
part in the survey chose the former interior minister as the most significant
Iranian personality of the past year. See comments from readers >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Forty-Nine & Fifty >>>
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