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According to the surgeon general, President Khatami can still be said to be alive. A government source, who did not want to be named, confirmed:

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Dear Peyvand

On Friday (8 July) the Respect MP George Galloway was in the BBC Newsnight studio to explain a statement he had made about the terrorist

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My Uncle, Napoleon

“I don't solve problems, I just televise,” says the protagonist in Richard Thomas’s Jerry Springer The Opera. In a review of the West End hit

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My Uncle, Napoleon

Glasses don't stay clean for long. I always have to wipe them. I need them to stare at the computer all day. If they are

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Part 2

Part 2 Part 1 PRESENTER: And now the news. ANCHOR: An Iranian asylum seeker has been arrested in Newton Stewart, south-west Scotland, after he was

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Part 1

Part 1 INTERVIEW 1 Scene 1 – Int. Day – INTERVIEW ROOM Ms JENKINS: So you say you left Afghanistan because you have… Mr AHMADI:

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My Uncle, Napoleon

Last week, Federico Mazandarani phoned up Conservative Party leader Michael Howard – who hopes to oust Blair’s Labour government from power at the UK's general

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My Uncle, Napoleon

Yesterday I went to the basement of Carphone Warehouse in London's Oxford Street, a first-aid centre for mobile telephones. The older gentleman in front of

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My Uncle, Napoleon

Iranian-American women’s memoir is fast becoming a genre of its own. Marjan Mirabdolbaghi’s Peanuts and Pistachios is its latest offering. Here’s an excerpt: Our plane

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Peyvand Khorsandi

Monday

New York has a network of dead Iranians. Last week they took to the streets to take part in the embarrassing and misnamed ‘Persian’ parade.

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Spring-cleaning my hard-drive, I came across this e-mail had written to my friend Parisa Taghizadeh, a photographer on 6 June 2003. From PK@..: 26 June

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Diary

Diary 8 August 2004 It is a hot day in England. Phil and I have been in the garden reading papers. One of the stories

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My Uncle, Napoleon

Igor is the sort of guy if he made a joke about your mother you’d pat him on the back and say “That was funny.”

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My Uncle, Napoleon

Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai barely registered a blimp in casting directors’ books after starring in Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice last year. Mighty Bollywood has

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My Uncle, Napoleon

She was Portuguese and worked in a bakery called Olivers. It served cakes, coffees, sandwiches and was run by what we school kids guessed was

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Najaf

A rebel cowers under a pockmarked headstone with his name on it, metaphorically of course, for it belongs to a fellow felled long ago by

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Saturday school

soopoor (n.) Persian word for dustman. Not Turkic in origin as is commonly perceived, it came into existence as a result of British occupation in

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Behind the rope

A friend of mine took me to a nightclub on Friday. There was an elevated section divided by a rope known as the VIP section.

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Moore Shrek

Two films I saw this weekend: Shrek 2, in my opinion, pushed the point too much about the connection between the Bushes, the Bin Ladens

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Hasan Jones’s Diary

Sunday July 4 Alcohol units: 1 bottle wine, 2 pints of Guinness, 3 shotettes of Absinthe Belly protrusion: Negligible Reading backlog: 2,679. Read waterproof bath

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Burn

A friend of mine who lives in Iran – let's call her Sarah – brought me a packet of zereshk as a gift the other

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