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Dec 18-22, 2000 / Azar 28-Dey 2, 1379
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Not a love story
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Absence
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Big brown eyes
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Maajeraa-ye yek serqat
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Price of change
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Friday
December 22, 2000
Iran-U.S.
The time is now
A new beginning in Iran-U.S. relations
By Hooshang Amirahmadi
December 22, 2000
The Iranian
Two significant developments have increased Iran's stature in the world,
both of which will directly and positively affect U.S.-Iran relations.
One is the indigenous democratic movement; the other is the emergence of
a proactive Iranian diplomacy. These new developments are rock solid as
they are based on structural changes in the Iranian society and developments
globally. While the ongoing contest over the pace and extent of domestic
reforms is expected to dominate the national agenda in the immediate future,
foreign policy will increasingly assert its significance for the Islamic
Republic. No wonder that President Mohammad Khatami has made "dialogue
among civilizations" and "detente" the cornerstones of his
proactive foreign policy >>>
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His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Saving his gray-robed highness
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Thursday
December 21, 2000
Christams
Not a love story
Merry Christmas, Sandy. Wherever you are
By Shahrokh Zarnegar
December 21, 2000
The Iranian
I made up my mind. I was going to do it. The hell with everyone and
everything.
Determined, and completely terrified, I walked inside a phone booth
and started looking at the names and phone numbers written in bold letters.
There were names like "Wild Wendy", "Shelly the She Devil",
"Paula Please", "Kitty Cat", and "Breasty Barbara".
I picked up the phone and dialed the number for "Sandy the Australian
Blond." >>>
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Poem
Absence
By Roya Hakakian
December 21, 2000
The Iranian
The Monday
Was a Monday
...
The air
Was air
Some rain
Some shine
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Hashemi Rafsanjani: Two strategies
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Wednesday
December 20, 2000
Humanity
Big brown eyes
I wished I could be his mother
By Maryam Joseph
December 20, 2000
The Iranian
One Friday, early in the morning on a cold winter day, I was supposed
to meet one of my friends at a bus station in Gisha. We were going to go
to Darakeh.
I was late, and in a hurry. I paid the taxi driver and ran under the
Gisha overpass towards the bus station. As I was running I saw a little
boy (he might have been about five-years old) coming toward me >>>
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Robbery
By Saeed Tavakkol
December 20, 2000
The Iranian
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Kayhan, Akbar Khoshkoosh & Mohsen Ejehie >>>
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Tuesday
December 19, 2000
Society
The price of change
Can't there be change without violence?
By Najmeh Fakhraie
December 19, 2000
The Iranian
In some Arab tribes when a girl is born, she automatically belongs to
her cousin (pesar amou). Now the problem occurs when the girl's
family moves away to the city for some reason. She goes to school and maybe
even to college, "expands her horizons", meets people she never
could have DREAMED of meeting in the village and maybe even falls in love.
Not good. Because then the cousin finds out and you find two dead bodies
the next day. She's long gone and so is her "true love". Sometimes
she agrees to marry the cousin to save her lover and burns herself on their
wedding night >>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Justice, cronyism and Mohsen Ejehie
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Monday
December 18, 2000
Cover story
People of Oraman
Weathered by more than the elements
Written and photographed by Rasool Nafisi
December 18, 2000
The Iranian
Photos here
We were at the tail end of our journey in a hundred-mile-long valley
stretched along Iran-Iraq border. We were not a very good mood. Our driver
, a crossed-eyed man, silent like the valley itself, speaking little Farsi,
preferred driving on the left side of the road, which not only faced oncoming
traffic, but also edged the abyss. Once I asked him if he had learned driving
in England. "No," he grunted, and continued to drive on the left
side.>>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
The appeal in the trial of a revisionist
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