Today's hyphenated term: "Iranian-Californians"
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German News Coverage of the Shah and Shahbanou of Iran's State Visit to Germany in 1967. The visit was to trigger riots by far left wing students and activists which resulted to the unfortunate death of a student Benno Ohnesorg.
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VISITOR
A military attack would liquidate pro-American sentiment among Iranians
by Stephen Kinzer
The first thing that strikes Americans who visit Iran is how amazingly pro-American its people are. Nowhere else in the Middle East, nowhere else in the Muslim world, and almost nowhere else on earth do people so unreservedly admire the United States. Opinion surveys confirm this phenomenon, and I remembered it from previous visits. Nonetheless it was disorienting, in the heart of the purported axis of evil, to to be surrounded, as I was at Imam Square in Isfahan, by giddy female college students shrieking "We love America so much!"
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DEMOCRACY
انتخابات رقابتی اصلی حیاتی برای استقرار حاکمیت ملی
جنبش سبز از دو نقیصه مرتبط به هم رنج میبرد. یکی، فقدان یک رهبری منسجم و جامع الاطراف بوده که بتواند اعتماد و حمایت اکثریت قاطع فعالان جنبش سبز را جلب کند، و دیگری ابهام در آرمانهای جنبش سبز که از جامعیت لازم برای تأمین خواستهای مشترک نیروهای فعال آن برخوردار باشد. سخنان و اظهارات رهبران «به واقع» (دو فاکتو)ی جنبش در گذشته غالبا مبهم، چندپهلو، متناقض، بحثانگیز و تفسیرپذیر بوده است
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GHAMAR
She might become the Susan Boyle of Iran
Discussing an article we had read about the Iranian legendary singer, Ghamar-ol-Mokook, my friend said, “I wonder what would happen if she were alive today?” Indeed. What would happen to a great performer, a lover of music, not to mention a woman with Ghamar’s free spirit in the Islamic Iran? The thought wouldn’t leave me for the rest of the day. In a twisted way, I realized that she
did live in today’s Iran, albeit a hundred years ago! The article clearly indicated to such fact. “In those days, any woman without a proper
hejab would be arrested.”
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