The Iranian Features
February 21-25, 2000 / Esfand 2-6, 1378
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* Diaspora:
She changed overnight
* Books: New books from Iran
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 20
Recent
* Art:
Song and dance
* Novel:
Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter
19
* Elections:
He's history
* Elections:
Dialogue among ourselves
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 16, 17 &
18
* Elections:
So alike
* Elections:
Road to victory
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 15
* Cover
story: The ballot box
* Novel:
Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter
14
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Friday
February 25, 2000
She changed overnight
Before and after getting a Green Card
By Kasra
February 25, 2000
The Iranian
This is an email from a reader -- not an article. It's just dard-o-del.
Sadly, it's a story often heard among Iranians aborad.
Last year I went to Iran and met a good-looking 35-year-old woman...
We went to Dubai and got married. When I returned to America, I applied
to get her a Green Card... When she arrived we had great love affairs and
I felt like the luckiest person on earth! After two months her Green Card
arrived and I gave it to her. A day after that she changed 180 degrees!
She would make excuses and start fights. She tore up 200 love letters that
were exchanged between us. She tore up our many pictures taken together
in Dubai. (Of course she did not know that in America we make two prints
from our films!). It seemed she was trying to erase every evidence of our
time together. >>>
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New books
Eleven new books from Iran! Esmail Fassih's latest novel; history of
Tudeh officers, a film script about the life of the Shah; Iran's best selling
novel; eight short stories by Sadegh Hedayat and... >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Nineteen >>>
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Thursday
February 24, 2000
Song and dance
Paintings by Mina Agah
November 4, 2000
The Iranian
What pelasure it is to sit behind a computer all day and suddenly receive
an email from an artist. "Will you consider publishing my work?"
Well, of course! I loved Mina Agah's paintings as soon as I opened them
in Photoshop. Enjoy >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Nineteen >>>
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Wednesday
February 23, 2000
He's history
Hashemi Rafsanjani has lost respect
By Maryam Farahvashi in Tehran
February 23, 2000
The Iranian
Regarding the "demise" of Mr Hashemi Rafsanjani much has already
been said. What has happened, of course, was no surprise to me at all.
I had predicted it exactly as it happened. The only unknown premise was
the amount of success he might have in influencing the vote in his favor
through his old connections.
As things stand right now, Rafsanjani is still trying. He may eventually
succeed because he has had twenty years of experience. So he may still
get a seat in parliament and could even become its speaker. What is important
here, however, is the fact that he has lost the little respect this nation
still had for him >>>
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Dialogue among ourselves
An email to Mohammad Khatami
By Roozbeh Shirazi
February 23, 2000
The Iranian
Mr. President,
I write you tonight because I have a very strong dream. This dream of
mine is to one day visit my motherland, Iran. I have never been there and
my parents have not gone back for 25 years now...
In the 25 years that my parents have been here, both of my grandfathers
passed away, and my grandmother recently passed away in November. My parents
never got to go home to say goodbye because of the policies in place at
the time. My father has not seen his brothers and sisters for 25 years
now, and there is a whole family I only know through the telephone >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Sixteen, Seventeen & Eighteen >>>
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Tuesday
February 22, 2000
So alike
Us and the Americans
By Laleh Khalili
February 22, 2000
The Iranian
What I want to write about is quite pedestrian: the universality of
humanity as demonstrated by the absurdity and exhilaration of the game
of politics. Elections are a vivid tableau in which a society is distilled
and displayed; these particular elections so much more so...
What I want to say, based on this quick sketch of similarities, is simple.
We are so much alike, we the Americans, and we the Iranians. Our governmental
institutions may be vastly different; as our economies and our military
capabilities are; but as a people, here and there, we are the same. We
both play the politics of identity; religion and faith are so infinitely
important to us >>>
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Elections
The road to victory
It won't be smooth
By Rasool Nafisi
February 22, 2000
The Iranian
The unprecedented surge of political participation of Iranians in the
1997 presidential election, which brought Mohammad Khatami to power, halted
the gradual trend toward absolutism, at least temporarily. For the first
time Iranians experienced a relatively free election. Although, it must
be added that Iranians have tried their hand in 20 national elections so
far, and they seem to be determined to win over despotism through rational
rather than emotionally-charged political action...
So the reformists have won the majority of the Majlis. This stunning
victory will not bring full-fledged democracy to Iran, but it will halt
the advancement of the anti-democratic forces. What now? >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Fourteen >>>
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Monday
February 21, 2000
The ballot box
Majlis elections mark new era
Written and Photographed by Dokhi Fassihian
February 21, 2000
The Iranian
There is excitement on the streets of Tehran. Democracy has arrived
with a vengeance. All over town, people are talking about the latest results
of Friday's vote and making predictions for the final makeup of Iran's
sixth Majles. In taxis, homes, restaurants, and parties, politics rules
supreme.
In a stunning victory, reformists belonging to the Islamic Iran Participation
Front (pro-Khatami factions) have swept Tehran, Mashad, Esfehan and Shiraz
and other major cities. Following in second place are independent candidates,
and coming in last with a small minority are the conservatives >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Fourteen >>>
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