The Iranian Times

Friday, March 17, 2000 / Esfand 27, 1378, No. 940


Flower delivery in Iran

Sehaty Foreign Exchange

Flower delivery in Iran

Iranian books


    Rumi


Diaspora

Agha Mehti
Can't keep still in one country

By Mohandes
March 17, 2000
The Iranian

"If I see that S.O.B. who convinced me to come to Canada I know how to deal with him! Oh! I so miss being in Spain!"

This is what Agha Mehti told me in Persian last summer during my visit to Canada. We were introduced by a mutual friend, who told him I was coming from Europe.

Agha Mehti is a small man with a curved body and a a typical northern Persian face. When I asked him if he was a shomali, he said: "What? Are you kidding me?!". So, he corrected me and said he is from Tehroon! >>> GO TO FEATURE

Art

Colorful dreams
Watercolors by Mandana Dalaei-Khojasteh

March 17, 2000
The Iranian

Mandana Dalaei-Khojasteh is an Iranian-born, New York-based artist whose work features the dream of Persian gardens, vast meadows with colorful flowers along with different brilliant colors of Iranian tribeswomen's outfits and headscarves.

The inspiration for these works often originate from the themes and metaphores of Persian literature. Her works reflect the social and cultural contents of traditional Iranian life where the originality of dreams, thoughts and expression has made a unique multicultural nation. >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Thirty-seven >>> GO TO FEATURE


Outlook

Guns and the bookworm

The Economist
March 17, 2000

WHENEVER Iran takes a step forward, something clutches at its heel. Last weekend, an assailant shot Saeed Hajjarian, a political strategist who helped to bring about reformist victories at recent elections. For several years, Mr Hajjarian has worked behind the scenes to loosen the country's constraints. As he approached Tehran's city council on March 12th, a group of men distracted him while two others drove towards him on a motorbike. A gunman jumped off to fire two shots: policemen on the spot, even though armed with machineguns, failed to arrest him. One bullet missed, but the other lodged in Mr Hajjarian's neck. At mid-week he was in a coma, critically ill.>>> FULL TEXT


    Anyway

Only furniture

Letter to The Iranian:

We are exporting Iranian furniture to South America such as P{anama and Europe as a France or Arabic country such as Dubai, Qatar, Yemen.

SANAYEA CHOOB MAJLESI CO. is the only company in Iran that it is exporting only furniture. Welcome any time, more detail please send the e-mail to.mfc@iran-central.net.

Thank you.

Mohsen Zohourian

SANAYEA CHOOB MAJLESI CO.



More Letters

* Yaar dar khaaneh

Neda X writes in reply to Gold-Boy:

Naameye ziba va saraasar ehsaase to ra be Iranian khaandam va baraaye tamami e ensanhaye paak va sadeghi ke az zendegi yek donya entezaar va hezaarha aarezoo daarand geristam....

Man ham paj saale pish dorost baa hamaan afkar va ehsaasate to az Iran khaarej shodam va mikham kami az tajrobiate khodam baraat begam. Man injaa baa iraanihaye ziadi barkhord kardam va be jor-at meetoonam begam ke hichkodaam az aanha ehsaase khoshbakhti nemikonnand. Aadam vaghti ke hanooz tooye Irane hameye moshkelaate khodesh ro be vaziate jaame-e nesbat mide, amma vaghti ke vaarede donyaye be-estelaah AZAD mishe taaze halish mishe ke ei baaba faghat ghesmati az oon moshkelaat marboot be ouzae-ejtemaaii boodeh.

To migi tafrih nadaari. Fekr mikoni injaa tafrihe javoona chie? Unhayee ke saalem hastand tafriheshoon Cinema, koohnavardi, safar va injoor chizast ke dar Iran ham gheire momken nist, amma ba kamaale ta-asof bayad begam ke tafrihe kheiliha gozarandane shab taa sobh dar disco, mast kardan va baalaa avordaneh >>> FULL TEXT


Music: Persian music at Kennedy Center

You are cordially invited to attend a Persian music event at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC next Tuesday, March 21, 6:00 - 7:00 pm EST. This event is completely free and open to the public. If you cannot attend the celebrations in person, you may view the event on your home computer, live on the Internet >>> HERE

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Books & Music from Iran

Check our fourteen new books from Iran including an authoritative history of the Achamenid empire, writings by leading reformists, Forough Farrokhzad's complete works, exquisite books of classical poetry with miniatures, Manichaean psalms and more! >>> GO HERE

New music albums

* Taherzadeh, Manochehr: Aakharin barg * Eyvazi, Mohammad Reza. : Rangin kamaan * Banan.: Shaakh-e gol (2) * Ta'rif, Sadiq: Maah baanoo * Lachini, Fariborz: Paaeez-e talaaee ... >>> GO HERE

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Iran says U.S. export cover could help food trade

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Iran refuses accused Jews to choose lawyers

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Turkmens may boost gas supply to Iran to 13 bcm/yr

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Film reviews

Tehran (Hamshahri) - A review of Iranian films screened in the past three months and persisting problems >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

Year book

Tehran (Hamshahri) - Film magazine has published its year book on Iranian cinema >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

Spring

Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - A short story about Noruz during the Iran-Iraq war >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

Best

Tehran (Iran daily) - Sports writers select the year's best athletes >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

Arrival

Tehran (Hamshahri) - The national soccer team has arrived in Cyprus >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

Highlights

Tehran (Hamshahri) - Sports highlights of the past year >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN


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Quote Unquote

Safeguard

Mr Hajjarian once predicted that if he and others at the Strategic Studies Centre had left Mr Khatami to his own devices, he would have remained "a bookworm in the National Library", which he directed in the mid-1990s. As Mr Hajjarian clings to life, there is a growing demand that the president should safeguard the spirit of the man who helped to rescue him from obscurity.

-- The Economist
March 17, 2000


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