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Baba Taher
Iran-U.S.
19 years later
Rally in front of former U.S. embassy shows shift toward
domestic issues
Posted on Columbia University's Gulf2000 academic listserve by an
observer in Tehran:
Today (November 2, 1998), there was a demonstration and rally in Tehran,
organized by the leftist Islamist student group called Unity Consolidation
Office [Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat], commemorating the 19th anniversary of
the U.S. Embassy takeover. The event was announced in the Salam newspaper
a couple days ago and also in the posters on the walls in the universities
and streets en route.
The organizers were the leftist activists. The group's origin goes back
to the so-called Students in the Imam's Line [Daneshjouyan-e Peyro Khat-e
Imam], i.e. those who took over the U.S. Embassy 19 years ago. Judging
from the slogans they shouted, however, many of the participants were more
enthusiastic in expressing their support for President Khatami, than their
opposition to the U.S. In other words, the event was significant mainly
in terms of domestic politics here, i.e. as a demonstration and rally in
support of the Khatami administration... GO TO FEATURE
Iran-U.S.
From confrontation to modus vivendi?
Iran-U.S. relations 19 years after the hostage crisis
November 4, 1998
The Iranian
 Lecture by Hooshang Amirahmadi, Rutgers
University professor and president of the American-Iranian Council at the
Graduate Institute for Strategic and International Security Studies in
Geneva, Switzerland, October 12-13, 1998:
I wish to begin with the proposition that U.S.-Iran relations have entered
into an irreversible normalization process: the question is no longer if
but when.
As many of you know, several openings in the past were reversed leading
to an exacerbation of the spiral conflict between the two governments.
We are of course in the beginning of a very protracted process and surprises
of a positive or negative consequence for the relations in both sides,
in the side of Iran in particular, should not be discounted. Nonetheless,
I believe, the future will witness more reduction in tension between the
two countries. Where do we stand in the normalization process is hard to
tell as contradictory signals and policies in both sides make a determination
complicated... GO TO FEATURE
Beloved
An incredible film. Go see it.
Sara Amir gets 3.1 percent of California votes
From Jamshid Naghizadeh janakgf1@linux.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE
Sara Amir an Iranian born candidate for Leutenant Governor of California
from Green Party captured 3.1 percent of the total vote and came third
behind Cruz M. Bustamante, Democrat (52.9%) and Tim Leslie, Republican
(38.6%).
In contrast, the Green Party candidate for Governor Dan Hamburg captured
1.2 percent of the total vote behind Gray Davice, Democrat (58.1%) and
Dan Langren Republican, (38.4%).
Highest percentage votes for Ms. Sara Amir were cast in the Northern
coastal counties namely Humboldt (11.8%), San Francisco (12.4%), Santa
Cruz (8.8%), Mendocino (10.0%). On the other hand, there is no evidence
that she was aided by a blok vote by Iranian-Americans who are concentrated
in high population urban areas.
Except for San Francisco where Iranian-American vote may have had some
influence, her vote in Los Angeles with highest Iranian American population
was 2.5% somewhat lower than her statewide average 3.1%.
In other areas of Iranian American concentration she obtained: Marin
(5.4%), Santa Clara (San Jose) 3.4%, Orange (2.0%), San Diego (2.7%). A
more detailed analysis of the available data and its comparison with earlier
elections and Green strength in various counties is needed to establish
the Iranian-American voting patterns.
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* Don't share your excitement
Ali Safarnejad writes: I don't share your excitement at Hollywood's
approval of Iranians ["Practice
makes perfect"]. You missed the plane, train, and cab ride to
this point. Hollywood has forgiven the Iranians for all the bad things
we did, and now we can kiss and make up. I'm not so ready to jump on the
bandwagon of international makeup sex for the sake of makeup.
What America gets to watch on the boob-tube is either Iranians, fist
in the air, cursing to let loose the dogs of war onto the imperial pigs,
or a blue-eyed, soft spoken Iranian girl making right out of wrong - with
the help of her American, lawyer friend. Hers is not Martin Luther King's
civil disobedience or Stokely Carmichael's 'Black Power'. This one is like
the 80's yuppie retorts using judicial laws to punish moral crimes: I don't
like what you think of me, so I'm gonna change it by making you pay...
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* Classes: Nader
Naderpour Fall classes at UCLA
Nader Naderpour has been invited to the UCI & UCLA campuses to teach
numerous courses in Persian literature and culture (all in Farsi). Due
to the continuing interest in the Iranian community, the new series of
Mr. Naderpour's classes are scheduled as follows... DETAILS
HERE
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Khatami reaches toward Americans
TEHRAN, Iran (Reuters) - Iranian President
Mohammad Khatami Wednesday used the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of
the U.S. embassy to renew his message of reconciliation with the American
people. But he charged that U.S. policymakers had failed to heed the call
of public opinion backing a restoration of ties between the two countries.
``What happened in Iran was not a fight against the American people, but
against anti-Iranian policies,'' Khatami, a moderate Shi'ite Muslim cleric,
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ago
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Hamshahri has interviewed several
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Taabestaan pedar-e yateemaan ast.
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