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Birthday
By Sadaf Kiani Abbasian
November 30, 2000
The Iranian
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Art
Queasy feeling
Enjoy Shirin Neshat's thrilling art. But...
By Roya Hakakian
November 30, 2000
The Iranian
Let us all rejoice in the fact that once produced, the work of art no
longer belongs to its maker. Let us particularly rejoice in the fact that
as viewers, we can revel in Shirin Neshat's art without requiring her own
instructions. For to be guided by this artist through her work is to be
derailed from the thrilling and universal experience of it >>>
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His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
The jury & the press court >>>
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Ganji accuses Fallahian
BBC Persian Service
The well known journalist, Akbar Ganji, appearing before a court in
Tehran, has named a former Intelligence Minister, Ali Fallahian, as the
key figure behind a series of murders of dissident intellectuals which
shook Iran in recent years. Mr Ganji is defending himself against charges
of undermining national security and making propaganda against the Islamic
regime. Saeed Yekta reports >>>
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Ganji Accuses Official
November 30, 2000 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- In a daring allegation, Iran's
leading investigative journalist on Thursday accused former Intelligence
Minister Ali Fallahian of ordering the killing of political dissidents
two years ago. In court, Ganji also openly challenged Iran's supreme leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei >>>
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This & that
Jahanshah Javid's photogrphas featured in Kargah.Com >>>
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Great stuff
I saw it twice. That's how much I loved this film. Laughed and cried
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More Letters
* Not me
Sarah Harrison writes: I would like to clear something up. I
have been receiving hateful emails regarding a
letter that was posted on your site. However, I did not post this letter.
Someone is using my email to behave offensively, or they have a very
similar email to mine. I just wanted to let you know that I myself am not
a hateful person, and whatever that lettter or article said, it did not
come from me.
* So little progress
Yari Ostovany
writes: In response to Iraani, you should
have lived in Europe of the Dark Ages; you would have found the social
conditions much more to your liking.
I am at a loss though as to this chicken and egg situation; does your
stupidity stem from your inhumanity and bigotry or is it the other way
around?
Your letter is a grim reminder of how little, as a species, we have
progressed since our kind left the caves.
* Love is blind
Syed Zaki Abbas
writes: In response to Iraani,
I would say that her letter stinks of prejudice and makes it quite evident
that she is quite a biased person when the colour of the facial pigment
is concerned.
If a man likes a woman [Maryam
and Daryl] and they understand each other or vice versa then I think
that there should be no barriers of caste , colour or creed. because love
is blind.
* Other heroes
Morad Shoorideh writes:
In the past few weeks you have had articles about our "heroes"
["Making
a hero"]. I am sending these photos in celebration and remembrance
of some other heroes of the not-too-distant past (Fadaaiye Khalq) >>>
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Write: Women writers of Iranian diaspora:
Deadline extended
A new collection of writing aims to bring together the chorus of voices
by and about women of the Iranian Diaspora. We are seeking submissions
of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction essays for a new collection of writing
by and about Iranian women in the Diaspora >>>
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Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
Oh, when you remind me of her door,
I feel the rapture bubbling up once more.
How can I forget that blessing, ever,
When you bring to mind long buried treasure?
* Also see more Rumi
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Rumi:
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Akbar Ganji on trial names names in serial
murders case
TEHRAN,
Nov 30 (AFP) - A reformist journalist on trial in Tehran Thursday accused
a senior judge of ordering the murder of a communist militant and a group
of conservative clerics of being behind other killings of dissidents and
intellectuals. Akbar Ganji named names at his trial before a revolutionary
court over his participation with other reformists at a conference in Berlin
in April which was deemed un-Islamic by conservative Iranian authorities
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Ganji tries to turn tables on Iranian justice
system
TEHRAN,
Nov 30 (AFP) - The trial of a key figure in a controversial conference deemed
"anti-Islamic" edged towards farce Thursday as he blamed Iran's
authorities for letting him attend, charging them with double standards.
Journalist Akbar Ganji was appearing before Tehran's revolutionary court
for the second time in the trial over the conference on Iran held in Berlin
in early April, for which 17 others are also facing prosecution >>>
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Iran not yet delivered from dictatorship:
Khatami
TEHRAN,
Nov 30 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said Wednesday that Iran
was still not delivered from dictatorship, more than 20 years after the
fall of the Shah and his replacement by an Islamic regime. "Our country
emerged 20 years ago from the heavy weight of dictatorship, but unfortunately
we are not yet completely delivered from it, and dictatorship continues
to haunt us all," he told reporters >>> FULL TEXT
Iran arrests distributors of report on
dissident killings
TEHRAN,
Nov 30 (AFP) - Iran has arrested several people charged with distributing
an 80-page report which implicates a number of authorities in the shock
1998 serial murders of several dissidents and intellectuals, press reports
said Thursday. The centrist Entekhab paper cited Intelligence Minister Ali
Yunessi as saying that several people, accused of distributing the undercover
"night letter", had been identifed and arrested recently >>>
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Russian military offers arms for Iran's
border forces
MOSCOW,
Nov 30 (AFP) - Russia is ready to send arms to Iran to help reinforce its
borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, the military news agency AVN quoted
a top Russian general as saying Thursday. The statement came only days after
Russia announced its intention to renew arms negotiations with Tehran, effectively
scrapping a five-year-old accord with Washington that banned conventional
arms sales to Iran >>> FULL TEXT
Several years needed before cases of Iran-Iraq
POWs settled: Red Cross
BAGHDAD,
Nov 30 (AFP) - The Iran-Iraq war may have ended 12 years ago but it will
take several more years to resolve the cases of prisoners of war, a Red
Cross delegate said here Wednesday. "Some questions will remain in
suspense for several more years," the official with the International
Committee of the Red Cross told AFP on condition he not be identified >>>
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Iran Wants Russia To Build Second Nuclear
Reactor -Report
November
30, MOSCOW (AP)--Iran has decided to ask Russia to build a second reactor
at the nuclear power plant in Bushehr, offering a contract worth some $1
billion, a Russian newspaper reported Thursday. The business daily Vedomosti
quoted Andrei Yedemsky, a spokesman for the Nuclear Power Ministry, as saying
that the Iranian parliament had decided that the contract for the second
reactor at the plant in southern Iran should be awarded to Russia >>>
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French film award for Meshkini
Tehran (Hambastegi) -- "The day I became a woman" directed
by Marziyeh Meshkini has one another award, this time at a film festival
in France >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
More French awards
Tehran (Hambastegi) -- At another film festival in France, two
Iranian short films have received awards >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Jalili's new film gets okay
Tehran (Hayat-e No) -- "Delbaraan" is the first film
by Abolfazl Jalili to receive screening permission after completion. He
talks about it in an interview >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Who will take charge?
Tehran (Iran Varzeshi) -- Top names in the world of soccer are
lining up in hopes of being offered the Iranian national team's head coaching
job >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Behind the scenes
Tehran (Iran Varzeshi) -- Behind the scene look at the national
soccer team: The Brazilian coach basically doesn't do anything, while Hashemi-Nasab
sings to cheer the team >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
It's a lie!
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) -- An Italian soccer club has denied Iranian press reports
that Ali Karimi is about to be given a contract >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
BBC
MPs plan to increase Khatami's power
Some of the reformist deputies of parliament
say they are ready to pass a bill increasing President Khatami's power after
he complained earlier this week that he didn't have the authority to prevent
the violation of the Constitution. Saeed Yekta talks to Mohammad Dadfar,
a reformist deputy, about the subject >>>
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Right to disagree
I have the right not to agree with the leader. Is this
a crime? I disagree with the leader when he described the newspapers which
have been banned as the base of the enemy. I disagree with him on the press
law. I shouldn't be punished for disagreeing with the leader.
-- Akbar Ganji on trial
AP
November 30, 2000
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