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World War II guide for Americans in Iran
January 11, 2001
The Iranian
From "Pocket Guide to Iran" published by U.S. War
and Navy Departments for American servicemen in World War II. Thousands
of American troops were based in Iran during the war as part of a joint
effort with the British to send vital military supplies to Russia, which
was defending itself against Hitler's army >>>
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Film
Zardeh Kuh to King Kong
A great filmmaker's early start
By Darius Kadivar
January 11, 2001
The Iranian
Merian C. Cooper is well known in the motion picture industry for his
long list of pioneering ventures. He met Ernest B. Schoedsack in Poland
during World War I and the two intrepid travelers decided to collaborate
on making Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925), showing the
migratory habits of' the Bakhtiari tribe in Iran >>>
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Art
Clickart
Art and artists online
By Maryam Ovissi
January 11, 2001
The Iranian
We all don't have the time to visit art studios and attend gallery openings
as much as we like, but with the emergence of the World Wide Web, everyone
is able to access, learn and buy some extraordinary works of art from all
over the world. I have compiled a list of some great sites for you to begin
exploring Iranian art online >>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
His red-robed highness & intellectuals >>>
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Outlook
Committee finds detaining journalists illegal
BBC Persian Service
Tehran Justice Department has rejected a report by a special parliamentary
committee investigating complaints by imprisoned journalists. It says the
committee was not qualified to investigate judicial issues. The committee
supported journalists complaints against the Judiciary and asked for further
investigation. Masoume Torfeh asks the opinion of Said Doroudi, a lawyer
in Tehran >>>
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White House Eases Exports
By JOHN MARKOFF
The New York Times
January 11, 2001
In what may prove to be its final high-technology policy initiative,
the Clinton administration further eased restrictions yesterday on the
export of the nation's fastest commercial computers. The revised export
policies quickly won the endorsement of the Computer Coalition for Responsible
Exports, which is made up of large computer manufacturers like Compaq Computer,
Hewlett-Packard, I.B.M. and Intel. The changes involve expansion of the
list of countries that manufacturers can export to without individual export
licenses for computer sales >>>
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Tabreek
Did you know Deep Dish (a great
house gurus led by Washington DC boys Ali Shirazinia and Shahram Tayebi)
have been nominated for an Grammy in the remix category? >>>
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Thanks to Dokhi & Goli Fassihian
CORRECTION: The link to yesterday's "nowhe" was incorrect.
You can listen to it >>>
HERE
More Letters
* Fingerprinting: Serves no purpose to humiliate
Bradley Hernlem, PhD
writes: On Mr. Ali Noshirvani's letter ["Time
to take responsibility"] I would like to comment from an American
(non-Iranian) perspective...
Whether or not some people believe that it is reasonable and just for
the U.S. to exact a punishment upon ordinary Iranians for actions real
or imagined which were no fault of their own, I believe that the policy
does great harm to the U.S. and its interests. It serves no purpose to
humiliate people who have no ill intentions toward the U.S. If anything
it destroys amity and creates enmity >>>
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* On discrimination & race
John Mohammadi
writes: In response to Ali Noshirvani's letter ["Time
to take responsibility"] in which he justified discrimination
against Iranians due to events such as the U.S. embassy hostage taking
and "support for terrorism": I would like to point out that I
as an individual had no role in any of that, so I as an individual am quite
justified in blaming and condemning discrminatory conduct based on my ethnicity.
What you're espousing is guilt-by-ethnic or historical-asssociation >>>
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* The problem is violence, not Iranian men
Dokhi Fassihian writes:
I think Iranian men are fabuolous, and as a personal preference, I
couldn't imagine being with a non-Iranian. Most Iranian men I have met
have been successful, passionate, caring, loving people. I have nothing
against Iranian men. I DO have something against weak people trying to
oppress or discriminate against people who are different from them to gain
a sense of power or superiority, whether these people are men, women, Blacks,
Whites, Iranians, non-Iranians, heterosexuals, or homosexuals >>> FULL
TEXT
* In the path of foreign armies
Mohammad Bat-haee
writes: I enjoyed reading your article on Hawraman (Owraman) ["People
of Oraman"]. It seems that you have partially traveled along the
Sirwan River... This route that you have taken was once traveled by the
13,000-strong Greek forces who went to Iran to help Bardia (the brother
of Kambudjia who attacked Egypt) to become a Persian King. History says
that Bardia was defeated and the Greeks took the Sirwan route to return
to Armenia and then Greece. They lost 3,000 of their men along the Sirwan
River. How? >>>
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Literature: Persian poetry conference,
London
Modern Persian Poetry: Poetry of Iran and the Persian speaking world.
A three day conference, London, 17 - 19 May 2001. Brunei Gallery Lecture
Theatre, SOAS, University of London
The aim of this conference is to look at recent studies on modern poetry
as one of the most dynamic varieties of Persian literary form, and in a
comparative literature context >>>
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Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
Get up! Show some respect for her good name!
Speak to your lover, let her soothe your heart.
Get out of this trap, that one's so much better.
So she throws you out the door? Climb through the roof!
* Also see more Rumi
translations
Rumi book
Rumi:
The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi
By Frankin D. Lewis
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Columnist sentenced to eight months in
prison
TEHRAN, Jan 11 (AFP) - Satirical journalist Ebrahim Nabavi
has been sentenced to eight months in prison by Tehran's press court, the
government daily Iran reported Thursday. Nabavi was accused by the court
of "publishing lies, insults against officials of the regime and unfounded
accusations" against them >>>
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Death penalty faces 800 drug traffickers
in Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 11 (AFP) - Iran's chief justice Ayatollah Mahmud
Hashemi-Shahrudi said Wednesday that 800 drug traffickers were on death
row and called for further harsh punishment, the official IRNA agency reported.
The agency quoted him as saying: "800 cases imposing the death penalty
on drug traffickers have been looked at by the remission panel, but no sentences
were commuted >>>
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Iran wants to be consulted on all negotiations
concerning the Caspian Sea
TEHRAN, Jan 11 (AFP) - Iran reminded Russia and its neighbours
around the Caspian Sea Thursday that it wants to be consulted on the sharing
of the sea's resources and stressed that the agreements drawn up between
Iran and the former Soviet Union still applied. "A new set of rules
for the Caspian must take into account the current arrangements, but for
now only the 1921 and 1940 agreements (between Iran and the Soviet Union)
apply, and no other arrangement outside those agreements is acceptable,"
said the official IRNA news agency, quoting "an informed source"
at the foreign ministry >>>
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Tehran police shut down 29 brothels: press
TEHRAN, Jan 11 (AFP) - Tehran police have shut down 29
brothels in the well-heeled northern districts of the city and arrested
more than 85 madams and pimps, a press report said Thursday, quoting a judicial
official. The daily Jam-e-jam said those arrested, whose life style included
luxury cars and mobile telephones, had been sentenced to jail terms, fines
and whippings >>>
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New Tehran-Seoul air route to open
SEOUL, Jan 11 (AFP) - Iranian airline Mahan Air is to start
once a week flights from Tehran to Seoul, the South Korean transportation
ministry said Thursday. It said the flight would leave the Iranian capital
every Monday and arrive in Seoul the same day via Bangkok. South Korea and
Iran made an aviation agreement last July.
Players trainging hard
Tehran (Iran Varzeshi) -- Iranian national soccer team
is training hard under the new coach to prepare for the Civilization Cup.
Players are getiing thinner and thinner every day >>>
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Pour-Heydari: Bad selection
Tehran (Iran Varzeshi) -- Esteqlal headcoach Mansour Pour-Heydari
alleges that national team member selections have were done improperly >>>
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Farahani: No interference
Tehran (Iran Varzeshi) -- Soccer federation head Safaie
Farahani says nationa team members were chosen directly by the Brazilian
coaches and no one has interferred in their work >>>
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BBC
History of Iranian performing arts
A seven-part program produced by filmmaker Shahrokh Golestan.
Here's PART TWO >>>
LISTEN HERE
BBC Persian
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The Web
Iran
Jameah
Madani
Another reformist publication in iran just
went online.
Beyond Iran
Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies
Straw Men falling down Slippery Slopes may
sound like a Wizard of Oz site, but Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies
is in fact a trenchant analysis of classic argumentative "fake outs."
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web sites
Quote Unquote
Commitments
Don't expect definite future commitments; when an Irani
says "now" he means "this very hour"; when he says FAR-DAH
(tomorrow) he means "sometime in the future."
-- "Pocket
Guide to Iran"
U.S. World War II booklet for American servicemen in iran
The Iranian
January 11, 2001
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