Letters
Dec 28-31, 1998 / Dey 7-10, 1377
Today
* Iranian-American: Sincere
appreciation
* Food: My wife's a vegetarian
Previous
* Revolution: The shah
made mistakes. But...
* Abadan:
- What do they mean?
- Khaaterati zendeh kardi
* Yalda:
- Fundamentally different
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Thursday
December 31, 1998
* Sincere appreciation
[To The Iranian and the White House:]
As an Iranian-American, I sincerely appreciate your
[President Clinton's] appointment of Mr. Hassan Nemazee as U.S. ambassador to Argentina.
Bagher R. Harandi
AHarandi@aol.com
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* My wife's a vegetarian
There are many Iranians who are vegetarins ["dAyi
Hamid's 'Eat this'"]. My wife is vegatarian and has been one
for the past six years. However, I do not have her will and still eat
meat (mostly white meat). She has tried to convert me but I can't give
up my bad habits.
mm_ghnsa@email.msn.com
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Wednesday
December 30, 1998
* The shah made mistakes. But who doesn't?
This is a response on the letter "Another
Shahanshah? No thank you." I was only six-years old when the revolution
took place. I left Iran nine years after witnessing a horrifying war and
having both my parents jailed and tortured at Evin "university."
Both my parents were "purged" and many other members of my family
experienced the same ordeal. Let me tell you my mother was a midwife and
in my family there were teachers, doctors and engineers. On top of that
we were denied to get a passport and leave the country. In those days of
war, blood and long lines for basic necessities of life, I was always reminded
of the days when Iranian singers and dancers entertained people with our
rich culture.
Let me save you from any prejudgment. I am not a monarchist. No member
of my family enjoyed favor with the previous regime. We were as apolitical
as one could be. We were Iranians who were not SHI'ITE Muslims. Since 1979,
that has been a crime in Iran. I am not writing this to defend monarchy
or the late Shah. I am here to remind my distinguished countryman that
he is wrong to assume that everything was terrible in pre-1979 Iran and
that everything was fine between 1979-80 ... FULL
TEXT
M. Jalili
hjalili@eden.rutgers.edu
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Tuesday
December 29, 1998
* What do they mean?
I noticed that this week The Iranian Times web address is dedicated
to "Braim" and that really made me homesick. Then I saw the picture
of Alfi's store in Abadan
and that filled my eyes.
I am a born-and-raised Abadani and spent my childhood not far from the
Alfi Store. However, we used to call the area Beraim, not Braim. Does anyone
know what the word stands for? And, for that matter, does anyone know what
Bavardeh (as in Bavardeh shomali and Bavardeh jonoobi neighborhoods in
Abadan) means?
I have a hunch they both may be souvenirs brought to the oil company
community by Indian laborers during the early 1900s.
Mahin Motamedi Witkowski
aprilwit@vbe.com
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* Khaaterati zendeh kardi
Chaakeram, Hamid az España. I was just looking at the Abadan pictures. I din't know
many of these people except the ones who moved to Ahvaz, like Matin Karbasiyoon,
Marjan & Mahshid Madani Nezhad...
Damet kheyli garm, khaaterati zendeh kardi. Mokhles hamishegi,
Hamid Bahadori
reebaha@reemail.ericsson.se
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* If you read carefully
Dear Ataollah,
Thanks for your
comments on my paper ["Cyber
clash"]. Please be assured that this article was not intended
to make any generalizations about Iranian youth. If you read carefully,
I have tried to qualify this research, my conclusions and my interviews,
and by no means do I present this as scientific "data" on the
whole of Iranian young people:... FULL
TEXT
Dokhi Fassihian
dfassihian@sais-jhu.edu
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Monday
December 28, 1998
* Fundamentally different
Dear Mr. Farhang,
Your enthusiasm for the ancient Iran heritage/ traditions and Zoroastianism
is commendable ["Inaccurate
heresies"]. However, such desire should not stretch concepts beyond
the realm of reality. Your statements about Islam, Christianity, and Judaism
and the dual concepts of heaven & hell, good & evil; is fundamentally
different in the Unitarian beliefs of Moslems, Christians, or Jews than
it is in Zoroastianism.
Sheytan in Islam, is created by Allah and DOES NOT have equal might.
In Zoroastiaraninism, Ahreman is a separate entity and in competition with
Ahoora! The divine religions such as Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are
monistic in nature and do not believe in the concept of dual nature of
the universe. In such beliefs, good and evil are intertwined.
I am a moslem and have tremendous respect for Zoroaster and his concepts
as well as our rich Iranian culture, but above all, respect the truth,
specially the proven documented ones!
Sadri Khalessi
sadrik@earthlink.net
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Friday,
December 25, 1998
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