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The Iranian Features
August 14-18, 2000 / Mordad 24-28, 1379

Today

* Shah: Free elections, 1979
* Truth: We have to lie
* Hijab: Gooshzad

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Friday
August 18, 2000

Shah

Free elections, 1979
My last audience with the Shah

August 18, 2000
The Iranian

The Shah kept silent for a short moment... A servant came in with a tray on which were a medicine flagon and a glass of water. The Shah bolted a pill. Then he leant against the back of his seat and spoke in a very soft voice, as if he were gathering wool: "The time is coming for me to withdraw. I have served the nation to the best of my ability and I think that I have done a lot of positive things. All foreign leaders admire our achievements. The country is ready for democracy. I have the intention of giving to Iranians the freedom of expression and all other liberties >>> GO TO FEATURE

Truth

We must lie
To survive

Shahriar Zahedi
August 18, 2000
The Iranian

On the customs of Persians, Herodotus writes: "Their sons are carefully instructed from their fifth to their twentieth year, in three things alone---to ride, to draw the bow, and to speak the truth. The most disgraceful thing in the world, they think, is to tell a lie; the next worst, to owe a debt: because, among other reasons, the debtor is obliged to tell lies."

So it is safe to assume that there once existed among the Persians, a certain preoccupation with honesty and truthfulness and maybe that was a part of what set them apart from other ancient peoples and contributed to their rise and glory in the olden days.

But then what happened? >>> GO TO FEATURE

Hijab

By Mohandes
August 18, 2000
The Iranian

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Thursday
August 17, 2000

Iran-U.S.

One planet, one people
American scientists visit Iran

August 17, 2000
The Iranian

From Alan Hale's travel diary to Iran. Hale, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp, led a group of American space experts to Iran last month to attend an international conference.

... As I expected, the Iranian people continue to be very warm and friendly towards us. We continue to be beset by those seeking autographs and conversation, and I've politely had to tell one gentleman that I'm not quite the expert on gravity waves... Overall, a confirmation and continuation of my perceptions last year of the Iranian people's being friendly, intelligent, and industrious. I expect nothing but more of the same as we continue through the rest of our week here >>> GO TO FEATURE

Iran-U.S.

Amazed
"Never did I think I would visit Iran"

By Doug Biesecker
August 17, 2000
The Iranian

About two years ago, Alan Hale, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp, invited me to join a group that was planning to view the solar eclipse in Iran. I immediately jumped at the chance. I think because I knew about the desire to improve relations between the U.S. and Iran, but also because I wanted to find out what it was really like. After all, I had read the newspaper accounts about the newly-elected, reform-minded president and I knew about the exchange of wrestlers between the two countries >>> GO TO FEATURE

Politics :o)

By dAyi Hamid
August 17, 2000
The Iranian

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Wednesday
August 16, 2000

Poetry

By Esmail Nooriala
August 16, 2000
The Iranian
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Poetry

Majnoon has no pride

By Zara Houshmand
August 16, 2000
The Iranian

Majnoon has no pride;
me, I have no place to hide.
Fingertips on keys
punch holes in boundaries
between two worlds
and the wind whistles through shamelessly,
shamelessly >>> GO TO FEATURE

Poetry

In Australia

By Laleh Khalili
August 16, 2000
The Iranian

She

My mother grows lemons and marigolds
........in her exile garden
........and hangs her laundry on sunny clotheslines
My mother drinks her bitterness down with tea
........and finds joy in pistachio green >>> GO TO FEATURE

Poetry

By Mehdi Moazzen
August 16, 2000
The Iranian
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Poetry

Third coast brunch

By Ali Mohajer
August 16, 2000
The Iranian

Muriel sat watching in the corner,
playing with the paper,
hiding in the pages.
She's a sad one. Always
wearing black or brown >>> GO TO FEATURE

Poetry

Persian princess insania

By Leyla Momeny
August 16, 2000
The Iranian

I am america-girl:
britannica irania
persian princess insania
lavash skin, aquiline nose,
my heart emerged as a golden oud,
well-mannered and traveled,
have reached the skirts of Isfahan >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Tuesday
August 8, 2000

Opinion

Sea of opportunities
... if large and small states cooperate over the Caspian

By Hooshang Amirahmadi
August 15, 2000
The Iranian

History suggests the wisdom of stronger states bearing responsibility, when possible, to secure against the perils faced by weaker states in the region. States could gain from respecting and assisting each other in developing their comparative advantages. In a region where the advantages of interdependence are prominent, focusing primarily on competitive advantage is inappropriate. The approach should be to gauge the competitive advantage of the region as a whole, and within that, to address the comparative advantage of its parts. The interdependent destinies of the Caspian Region and the oil industry means that both will suffer if problems are addressed unilaterally. Regional co-operation is necessary not only for environmental management, but also for the installation of pipelines, among other development projects >>> GO TO FEATURE

War

Lingering pain
Victims of war laid to rest, but not the memories

Photos by Ali Khaligh
August 15, 2000
The Iranian

Thousands of mourners gathered before parliament Monday to bid farewell to 300 soldiers killed during the eight-year war initiated by Iraq 20 years ago. The coffins, many of whose remains have only recently been recovered, were draped in the Iranian flag as young and old paid their respects >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Monday
August 7, 2000

Cover story

The beauty of nothing
Bronze sculptures

By Parviz Tanavoli
August 14, 2000
The Iranian

My 1965 sculpture exhibition at the Borghese Gallery in Tehran generated nothing but criticism and hostility, but one item endured and went on to earn recognition, proving to be the beginning of a new phase for me. In the upper part of this composition was a plastic circle enclosing the word heech (nothing) also in plastic and shaped in beautiful Persian script. Below were hands, executed in plaster, grasping a copper grille.

I cannot say what it was the impelled me to create this piece -- whether I was anxious about having reached a point of nothingness and was trying to ward off the tendency, or whether I wanted to succumb to it and bring it to realization as a creative source >>> GO TO FEATURE

Fiction

A ten-letter African country
Short story

By Mehdi Nasrin
August 14, 2000
The Iranian

One of my college courses was "philosophy of biology". I could never overcome the urge to skip it. I did not attend even once. At the end of the term, half an hour before the last class, I was sitting in my room trying to find a ten-letter African country whose fifth letter was G, when somebody knocked on my window. I drew the curtain aside and saw my Arab friend, Ahmed, standing behind the window on the emergency exit stairs. I opened the window for him.

"Don't you want to get your door bell repaired?" asked Ahmed >>> GO TO FEATURE

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The beauty of nothing
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