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Editorial
For God's sake
Conservatives need more than divine intervention to stop
reforms
April 20, 2000
The Iranian
Are the conservatives closing in against the reformist government of
President Khatami? It certainly appears that way. Ayatollah Khamenei has
lashed out against the independent press and denounced "American-style"
reforms; leading reformist journalists have been summoned to the Revolutionary
Court; the out-going Majlis ratified a law putting new limits on freedom
of the press; reformist victories in the Majlis elections in at least eight
cities have been overturned; election results in Tehran, where the reformists
handed the conservatives their most embarrassing defeat, have been called
into question; the Expediency Council has forbidden investigations against
offices controlled by the leadership; and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards
have openly threatened the reformist press with "Islamic violence."
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Reformers fear coup
By Guy Dinmore in Tehran
Financial Times
April 20, 2000
Iran's political crisis deepened on Wednesday when a reformist party
allied to President Mohammad Khatami accused hardliners of plotting a military
coup or other ways of preventing the newly elected and reformist-dominated
parliament from convening next month.
The reformist Islamic Revolution Mujahedin Organisation was responding
to a statement by the powerful Revolutionary Guards which said that "when
the time comes, small and big enemies will feel the revolutionary hammer
on their skulls" >>>
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More Letters
* Rasht & history
Kamran Behzadian
writes: First off the email about this guy's eyewitness report of the
civil disorder
in Rasht. Baba joon! Either translate the thing into English or else
send a scan of the Farsi text.
Second, this article "Lost
opportunities" is one of the better articles I have come across
about Iranian history. I recommend translating this one into Farsi and
submitting it to Iranian newspapers for publication. This would be good
karma for your Web site too since the Net is becoming more of a common
thing in Iran.
* Did not live up to ideals
Marty O'Malley, Jr.
writes: Unfortunately, the United States did not live up to its laws
or ideals back in the 1950's ["Lost
opportunities"]. This pattern repeated itself over again in other
parts of the world. If the elected representatives in the States publicly
acknowledge their country's wrong doing and encourage primary and secondary
schools to be more candid about U.S. wrongs, then the U.S. government will
begin to act more consistently in accordance with its laws and professed
ideals.
Let's hope that in the meantime, relations with Iran can be improved.
Nothing is to be gained from both countries constantly snarling at the
other. Opportunities for change and long term sharing of interests will
be lost if we fail to take the initiatives at this time.
* Kavkaz ancestry
Babak Tadjer writes: You're
articles are very interesting to read. But one issue that I miss and want
to have information about is the historical aspect of the fairly large
numbers of Iranians with Caucasian (Kavkaz / Qafqaz) ancestry. I'm one
of them on my mothers side.
People that are from Kavkaz / Qafqaz have little information or none
about the immigration from Kavkaz / Qafqaz. I don't know much myself, except
that I can see that we look different.
I don't know if you are able to write an article about this matter,
or if it's interesting enough.
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Director, Department of Economics, Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115,
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My lips with his began to speak, I asked:
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No support
Iran is a very different country than it was in 1953 or 1979. Mohammad
Reza Shah got help from Washington and London to preserve his rule for more
than two decades after getting rid of Mossadegh. And Ayatollah Khomeini
had the support of the masses when he toppled the Shah. But today's conservatives
have neither foreign nor domestic support. Surely they will need more than
God's blessings to hold on to power, even with force.
-- Editorial
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God's sake"
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