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Open letter to Palestinians and Israelis
By Majid Tehranian
October 25, 2000
The Iranian
Like millions of others, I have shared your pains and sufferings from
a distance and over a long period of time. I am a Muslim by birth, but
I have a Jewish son and therefore emotional ties to both sides. I am also
a proud disciple of Buddha, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, Buber, King, and Hosseini.
Following the seven years of the slow Oslo peace process and the breakout
of the new Intifada of October 2000, I feel that the time has come for
you to seriously consider a new mass strategy towards peace, namely a strategy
of non-violence >>>
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Diaspora
Bound in the land of the free
Displacement is another form of imprisonment
By Maryam Khosharay
October 25, 2000
The Iranian
My minds eye finds peace when it sees the streets of Iran with children
playing football, men coming home with warm bread over their shoulders.
Freedom is when I wake up at Khale Objies and know that breakfast awaits
in a never empty kitchen in a house where people love me unconditionally.
Freedom is as simple, or as complex, as the feeling I have when I hear
my name said correctly: Mar-yam, not Mary-am >>>
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Fiction
By Khodadad Rezakhani
October 25, 2000
The Iranian
Outlook
Defence lawyers ask for verdict to be annulled
BBC Persian Service
The defence lawyers of four of the 10 Iranian Jews who were convicted
of spying for Israel say they have asked the Prosecutor General to annul
the verdict. This is at the time when 5 other convicted Jews have dismissed
their defence lawyers. Sima Bahrami talks to Mostafa Mandegar one of the
defence lawyers >>>
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Behind the Veils, Change Is Quietly Sweeping Iran
By Karine Granier-Deferre
International Herald Tribune
Ocotber 25, 2000
TEHRAN - A five-star hotel here offers most of the comforts Western
tourists and business executives could want, including CNN and an Internet
café. Yet, an inscription above the entrance warns that Americans
are the enemies of the world and of the ''oppressed nations.'' In contrast,
our group visiting from France seemed to be spared such distrust and was
even welcomed.
Why were we shown such friendship? We were never sure, any more than
we were sure that the United States is really reviled at a people-to-people
level: America is present evh the availability of products such as Coca
Cola and the popularity of the dollar. English is also widely spoken and
used in most road signs >>>
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We have Puff Daddy in America and we have Puff Akbar, aka Akbar Hashemi
Rafsanjani, in Iran (actually he looks more like U2's Bono, no?) >>> SEE HERE
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* Tax dollars wasted in support of Israel
Javad Fakharzadeh,
CEO ATE Corporation, writes: The current tense situation inside Israel
and the Middle East are so grave that many other ripple effects are witnessed
that reflect Iran and Iranian nationals around the world ["Crooked
wall"]...
As a concerned Iranian American, I am very upset that my tax dollars
are not spent wisely and feel it is wasted as a result of mis-management
and against unarmed civilian population inside Israel and against Palestinians.
Furthermore, the US firmly supports Israel with advanced military equipment.
Washington is not capable of controlling the Israelis army and their atrocities
against rock throwing Palestinians. Live ammunition has been used for the
first time by the Israelis against the rock throwers >>>
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* Palestine has never existed
Kambiz Ameli
writes: Ayatollah Khamenei has just announced that he is planning to
dispatch financial assistance as well as one hundred thousand Iranian Basijis
to 'Palestine' in order to help the Palestinians regain their 'lands' including
Jerusalem (Qods).
I feel compelled to ask, whoever said that Jerusalem ever belonged to
the palestinians in the first place? Point of fact, in the Six Days War
Israel captured Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem. However they did not
capture these territories from Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians. They
captured them from King Hussein and the Jordanians. I can't help but wonder
why the Palestinians suddenly discovered their national identity after
Israel won that war, since prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there was
no serious movement for a Palestinian homeland >>>
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* Googoosh's unsightly front teeth
Anonymous writes: Seeing a close up of Googoosh in a CNN interview
I realized how unsightly her front teeth are. Being an old dentist and
dealing with cosmetic dentistry, I thought through your love for her we
might be able to arrange or somehow in a decent fashion make her aware
of the services that can enhance her beauty and charm.
TV: 1953 CIA Coup on History Channel
Sunday , October 29, 10:00 PM-12:00 AM, History Channel (U.S.): "Anatomy
of a Coup: The CIA in Iran" -- In 1953, a military-backed coup overthrew
Iran's elected Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh, and returned the Shah
Reza Pahlavi to power. The U.S. role was an open, if never officially acknowledged,
secret. Now the CIA's own, still classified history of the operation has
come to light. It reveals how the CIA and British Intelligence conspired
to initiate and plan the coup to maintain control over Iranian oil. CIA
agents, family members, and historians tell how the CIA plotted its first
successful coup.
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
I said, 'I'll fly like a bird from your hand.'
She said, 'Fly, and you'll suffer hard my loss.'
'I'm wretched,' I said, 'you have ruined me,'
'Bear that honor,'said she, 'with dignity.'
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Shamsolvaezin winner of press freedom award
New
York, October 23, 2000 (Committee to Protect Journalists) -- The winners
of the Tenth Annual International Press Freedom Awards are: Mashallah Shamsolvaezin,
reformist editor of several now-banned Iranian dailies. Shamsolvaezin was
jailed in April after being sentenced to 30 months imprisonment for allegedly
insulting Islamic principles in an article that criticized capital punishment
in Iran. He is currently serving his term in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison
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Lawyers file for spy verdicts against four
Jews to be annulled
TEHRAN,
Oct 25 (AFP) - Lawyers for four Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel
said they filed a motion at the prosecutor general's office on Tuesday for
the ruling of the revolutionary court to be annulled >>> FULL
TEXT
Iran says would-be assassins now back in
jail
TEHRAN, Oct 24 (Reuters) - The justice department in Iran's capital
city said on Tuesday all the would-be assassins of key reform strategist
Saeed Hajjarian were now in jail, a day after the department's chief said
they had all been let go. Eight men, among them members of the security
forces, were sentenced to jail terms after the assassination bid. But when
an MP visited a prison in the southern city of Shiraz last week, one of
the men supposed to be incarcerated in the jail was not there >>>
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U.S. State Dept. denies Gore-Russia deal
WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department said Wednesday there was
no secret deal by the Clinton administration allowing Russian arms sales
to Iran and endangering national security. An understanding between Vice
President Al Gore (news - web sites) and then-Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin
in 1995 was ``announced publicly,'' said John P. Barker, deputy assistant
secretary of state for nonproliferation control >>> FULL TEXT
Khatami criticises Arab states for failing
to defend Palestinians
TEHRAN,
Oct 25 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami lashed out against Arab
states Tuesday for failing to defend the Palestinian nation as the latest
Middle East violence brought the death toll to near 140, the official IRNA
news agency reported >>> FULL TEXT
OIC meeting of foreign ministers in doubt:
diplomats
TEHRAN,
Oct 25 (AFP) - The fate of a hoped-for emergency meeting of foreign ministers
from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on the Middle East
crisis was in doubt Tuesday, diplomats said >>> FULL TEXT
Revolutionary guards say Israel should
be "wiped off" map
TEHRAN,
Oct 25 (AFP) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (Pasdaran) called Tuesday
for the obliteration of Israel, the official IRNA news agency reported.
"The Pasdaran believe that the state of Israel, this tumorous cancer,
must be wiped off the Middle East map," the corps said in a statement
cited by IRNA >>> FULL TEXT
Iraqi base MKO says mortar attack in Tehran
carried out by women
NICOSIA,
Oct 25 (AFP) - Iran's main armed opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen,
said Wednesday that a mortar attack it claimed to have launched on security
headquarters in Tehran at the weekend was carried out by a unit made up
exclusively of women >>> FULL TEXT
Iran tanker firm says privatization on
schedule
Tehran (Reuters) - Iran is proceeding with plans to privatise the
state-owned National Iranian Tanker Co despite public criticism of the privatisation,
NITC head Mohammed Souri said yesterday. "The transfer of National
Iranian Tanker Co to the private sector is proceeding normally, according
to the law," Iran's news agency, IRNA, quoted Souri as saying >>>
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Tehran trade with Saudi on the rise
October
22, Gulf Daily News -- TEHRAN: Iran 's trade surplus with Saudi Arabia last
year was $6.9 million on the back of a 32-plus per cent rise in exports
to the kingdom, the official Irna news agency >>> FULL TEXT
Remembering Moshiri "that wonderful
man"
Tehran, (Hayat-e No) -- Authors and poets recall moemories of Fereydoun
Moshiri >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Arts fest awards painters
Tehran,
(Hayat-e No) -- Soudabeh Mir-Fassih is among the winners of the contemporary
arts festival in Tehran. Other award-winning painters include Mostafa dareh-Baghi
and Pooya Aryanpour >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
What's showing in Tehran?
Tehran,
(Hayat-e No) -- "A time for drunken horses", a winner at Cannes,
is now showing in theaters in Tehran. At 400,000 tomans per day, box offce
earnings are not great, but they are better than expected for a film that
does not have a popular theme >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Jalal Talebi submits resignation
Tehran Oct. 25 (Iran Sports Press) -- Upon arrival in Tehran
on Wednesday at Mehrabad Airport, Jalal Talebi submitted his resgination
to Safaee Farahani, the President of the Iranian Football Federation. While
the IFF has to approve the resignation, based on Farahani's comments at
the airport Talebi's tenure is very much over. Talebi was met at the airport
by Farahani and other members of the IFF. According to sources, Farahani
asked Talebi to submit his resignation upon arrival >>> FULL TEXT
Azizi: "We did not deserve to win"
Tehran Oct. 25: The Iranian National Team arrived in Tehran
on Wednesday following a dismal performance at the Asian Cup finals in Lebanon.
Among the players returning to Iran were Khodadad Azizi and Karim Bagheri
>>> FULL TEXT
Iran hoping to host 2004 finals
Tehran
(Iran Varzeshi) -- Iran will try to persuade Asian football officials that
the most qualified venue for the 2004 Asian Cup finals is Isfahan >>>
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BBC
Why political parties are short lived in
Iran?
A conference opened in Isfahan to discuss
the challenges facing the growth of Iranian political parties. In this report
by Behrouz Parsa, a political activist (Farrokh Negahdar) and two university
lecturers (Dr. Reza Taghizadeh in Glascow and Dr. Mohammad Kazem Mohammadi
Esfahani in Tehran) discuss why political parties in Iran are short-lived
>>> LISTEN
HERE
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Freedom
Freedom is when amidst the confusion on a random street
in Manhattan I hear Farsi spoken, and smile because I have just made a connection
that surpasses the present and extends into the past and aftertime. It is
knowing who I am, where I come, and feeling at one with the whole. It is
the feeling I have when I think of sunsets, laughter, and my mothers smile;
the relief and comfort of entering my mothers house and smelling the berenj;
drinking chaie with gaz.
-- Maryam Khosharay
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