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Baba Taher
Elections
Voting for change
Skeptical Iranians will vote to defeat conservatives
Written & photographed by Dokhi Fassihian
February 17, 2000
The Iranian
On my first day in Tehran, two days before the sixth parliamentary elections,
the city was bustling with activity. On this particularly bright and sunny
winter day, Tehranis went about their business as they were constantly
interrupted on the street by hired hands passing out thousands of tiny
fliers advertising for the many candidates vying for Majlis seats.
"I don't want to vote this time, but my friends say we should at
least choose the better of two evils and keep the likes of [former president
Aytollah Akbar] Rafsanjani out of power," a young cabbie told me on
the way to this Internet cafe from where I an writing in northern Tehran.
"But I will vote, just to support Khatami and what he is trying to
do." >>>
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By Howard Schneider
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Thursday, February 17, 2000
TEHRAN, Feb. 16-The music started and the crowd was on its feet, dancing
and shouting, boys and chador-draped girls mingling freely in the small
auditorium. They cheered their candidate in a raucous campaign rally that
was a hallmark of the new political season in Iran--a time when many young
Iranians have become convinced that Friday's parliamentary elections can
help mold this Islamic country into a place where they have more freedom
to think, do and say what they want >>>
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* Khayli ham modeh
Davood writes: Reading
the articles in Iranian papers, one can not miss the fact that using verses
from Quran, or other Arabic phrases without its translation, has become
very fashionable. Using Arabic words even though the Persian versions of
them exist, is an indication of one's knowledge of the religion and consequently
is a score for the author. The tune of writings very much resembles molla-speech
on the manbar.
Also Iranians who live abroad, like yours truly, are hard at work to
forget even the colloquial day to day Persian, never mind the proper version
of it. In my last visit to Iran, I had a discussion with one of the university
professors. During our discussion, I apologized for using too many English
terms in our Persian conversation. And the person's respond was "
Negaraan nabaash, khayli ham mode-h" >>>
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* Saheb ekhtiyar
Cyrus Kadivar
writes: This is a reply to the
gentleman who said that in my article ["High
spirits"] I was confusing Iranians with Indians for using the
word "sahib" which is really "saheb" like "saheb
ekhtiyar" or "sahebkhaneh", etc. That was how the story
was quoted by Dr Wills who had spent a few years in India. Mu apologies
for any misunderstandings.
* Dynamic woman
Hormoz Hormozi writes:
Thanks for information about Bahieh Khamsi's photographs of Equator
["Red
orange black blue"]. I had a short stop in the Washington DC area,
and had a chance to view her photographs and the team of her work. What
a dynamic young Iranian women.
There is a lots of hope for all of us with these future mothers. I was
proud and exited to see a young Iranian dedicating one year of her life
doing humanitarian work in Ecuador.
Thanks Bahieh. Keep up the great work.
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In recognition and celebration of the life of Ardeshir Mohasses, the
vanguard of the Iranian modern art of caricature there will be a gathering
in Rockville, Maryland on February 25. Guest Speaker: Esmail Khoi. Messages
from : Ahmad Shamlou, Javad Mojabi, Reza Barahani >>>
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I don't want to vote this time, but my friends say we should at least
choose the better of two evils and keep the likes of [former president Aytollah
Akbar] Rafsanjani out of power.
-- Tehran taxi driver
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