The Iranian Features
July 3-7, 2000 / Tir 13-17, 1379
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* History:
Just like that
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Times: East, sleep, nose job
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Frozen in time
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Friday
July 7, 2000
History
Just like that
How the Mossadegh government was overthrown
By Mark Gasiorowski
May 26, 2000
The Iranian
I have had a thorough look through the CIA history of the 1953 coup
in Iran (codenamed TPAJAX) that was recently released on the New York
Times' internet site. I have also gone through the version giving many
of the blanked-out names th at is available on the cryptome.org internet
site. The following are what seem to be the most important points made
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Thursday
July 6, 2000
Tehran Times
Eat, sleep, nose job
Iran could hold the world record in plastic surgery
By Najmeh Fakhraie
June 6, 2000
The Iranian
As I walk in the street it amazes me to see the number of people who
have broken noses. We could make the Guiness Book of Records it
seems. Why are they so careless? Don't they look to see where they're going?
I tell that to a friend. He breaks out laughing for the longest time. It
doesn't seem that funny to me. He finally manages to say : "Their
noses haven't been broken, not in an accident at least. They've all had
nose jobs!" >>>
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Wednesday
July 5, 2000
Nostalgia
Frozen in time
A 30-year-old ad brings back memories
Esmail Nooriala
July 5, 2000
The Iranian
Thank you for surprising me this morning by putting that time-infested
ad in your Nostalgia section. Also my thanks to Mr. Kamal Noori, the sender
of this ad, whom I do not remember to have known before. What he has come
up with is a piece of history from 30 years ago, frozen in time and faded
away in memory. I cannot believe how we (me and my generation) managed
to do so much in a short span of time that is, between the ages of
20 and 30 >>>
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Tuesday
July 4, 2000
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Monday
July 3, 2000
Cover story
Wake-up call
The student protests of July 1999
By Ali Akbar Mahdi
July 3, 2000
The Iranian
Excerpt from Ali Akbar Mahdi's "The Student Movement in the
Islamic Republic of Iran" published in the Journal of Iranian
Research and Analysis.
Writing about current affairs is a risky adventure. One may not be sure
whether the finger is truly on the pulse of events or only on a flutter
resulting from turbulent storms in distant waters. The more one reads about
the those events, the more it becomes clear that much of what is being
written is filled with either wishful thinking or calculated reporting
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