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Khayyam
Iranian of the century
Ayatollah Khomeini
Internet survey
January 4, 1999
The Iranian
The second highest number of votes (14%) in The Iranian survey went
to the late Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini. Many of those who picked him
as the Iranian of the century did not do so because they agreed with what
he did but because of his enormous impact -- good or bad. See comments
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Iranian of the century
Three men
... who shaped Iran in the 20th century
By Farhad Koohkan
January 4, 2000
The Iranian
In this century there were three men who affected the fate and the form
of the Iranian people in various degrees. Chronologically : Reza Shah,
Mohammad Mossadegh and Ayatollah Khomeini.
Mossadegh's time was short, and his outright aim was narrow -- sharp
and narrow like the tip of an arrow. His success -- and it was a success,
no doubt -- was in feeling the minds of the people who had become a closely
connected assemblage, developed and brought about, even if perhaps blindly
and forcefully by Reza Shah >>>
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Outlook
Bestselling Books Fuel Iran's Fire for Reform
By Afshin Molavi
The Washington Post
January 2, 2000
TEHRAN- Shahla Ghassempour, a middle-aged Tehran homemaker, emerged
from a corner store with a heavy sack. The heft in her bag, however, was
not the day's groceries, but an assortment of the latest pro-democracy
and reformist political books that have swept onto Iran's bestseller list.
Ghassempour, like thousands of Iranians, is setting aside traditional
romance novels and plucking up hot-selling titles that promote political
change, champion the country's pro-democracy student movements and explore
a series of killings of writers and dissidents that took place in 1998
>>>
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I AM NOT AMERICAN
I write to you from Australia hoping you can accommodate an unusual
request. Are you able to e-mail me in Arabic text the phrase 'I AM NOT
AN AMERICAN'. Please do not interpret this e-mail as an insipid inquiry.
Much to my displeasure Australia is becoming a sub-culture of the United
States, engaging in the conceited promotion of the 'would you like fries
with that?' fast food doctrine where consumption is symptomatic of a pretentious
and desensitised society >>>
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* Mossadegh? Why?
Parviz Zavareh
writes: I was truly amazed or, for the lack of better word, disappointed
in the selection of the majority of the respondents to the Iranian
of the century survey. I would have expected by now most but not all
would have figured out what has happened to them in the world of geopolitics
since the last world war. Looking back at the real history, as Mr. Mossadegh
himself commented to his trusted circle, how easily he was fooled to ally
himself with the so-called religious sect (Mr./Ayatollah Kashani, Majles
speaker post 1952).
Mr. Mossadegh was the one who made the choice of calling/arranging for
the late Shah to get back his throne. At his death bed as he confessed
to his mistakes of fighting against the Pahlavi regime, he should have
found a way to work with them and defeat the US/UK/France in their own
divide and conquer game >>>
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* Communist
Behrouz Sadigh writes: Please remove my name from your mailing
and subscription list. I can and will not support a publication who lists
a communist as its man of the century. I believe the Shah of Iran was deserving
of that title, but since you own the publication and not I, it would be
better if I were removed from your listing.
* Charity: Helping MS victims in Iran
We write today to ask for your help. During the holidays we were contacted
by the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society in Iran. Multiple Sclerosis, although
generally in decline in most parts of the world, is on the rise in Iran.
The experts have not yet established the underlying reason for this. However,
this dilapidating, and sometimes fatal decease, is spreading and proving
to be a major challenge >>> DETAILS
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* Saaniyeh-yeh
aakhar (1999)
Y2K issues in Iran
By Dr. Ali Parandeh
* Barandeh-haa
ham baazandeh-and (1999)
A memoir by a former mayor of Tehran, with photos
By Ahmad Nafisi
* Jazireh
sargardaani (2nd edition, 1998)
Novel
By Simin Daneshvar
* Mumia
va assal (1996)
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* Mehr-e
giaah (1998)
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ByAmir Hassan Cheheltan
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Upside down
I would like to nominate The Ayatollah [as the Iranian of the century],
for making history and turning a country up side down in a snap.
-- Kas Ebrahimi
"Ayatollah
Khomeini"
The Iranian
January 4, 2000
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