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Friday, June 16, 2000 / Khordad 27, 1379, No. 1003


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Cartoon

Very serious
Cartoons by Massoud Shojai Tabatabai

June 16, 2000
The Iranian

Massoud Shojai Tabatabai is the webmaster of irancartoon.com and the director of Iran's House of Cartoon. He has won several international and was a member of the jury for the Nasredin Hodja cartoon contest in Turkey last year >>> GO TO FEATURE

Opinion

Let's face it
A trial or a circus?

By Pedram Moallemian
June 16, 2000
The Iranian

The trial of thirteen Iranians as alleged spies has ended and a verdict is expected soon. Their religion or even political belief should matter very little, as they are Iranian, regardless...

Some say, "But wait. Didn't they confess?" Oh yes! and I am certain the "confessions" were done without any pressure, while they were fully informed of their legal rights and with their lawyers present. Please, give all of us a break! If their "confessions" are taken at face value, then every confession made by Iranian dissidents over the last 20 years must also have been valid. >>> GO TO FEATURE


Outlook

'60 Minutes' Faces Doubts on Reported Terrorist 'Czar'

By BILL CARTER
The New York Times
June 16, 2000

On Sunday, June 4, the CBS News program "60 Minutes" showed a striking report as its lead segment: A man claiming to be Ahmad Behbahani, a "czar of Iranian state-sponsored terrorism," was being held under armed guard in Turkey, where he was seeking to get his story out... Nearly two weeks later, "60 Minutes" is still not sure who the man is, and the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are saying he is an imposter. In addition, "60 Minutes" has backed off somewhat on his importance >>> FULL TEXT

Remedial assistance rebuffed
'No, thanks,' say non-native students to English classes officials insist they take; their teachers agree they're unnecessary

June 16, 2000 , EL CERRITO (Contra Costa Times) -- Four years after moving with her family from Iran to Pinole, 16-year-old Pegah Moghaddam speaks English with the fluid ease of a native, with just a hint of a Farsi accent. Her writing, however, bears more marks that English is not her first language. Yet the occasional mismatched verb tense or misplaced preposition hasn't kept her from earning A's in her mainstream sophomore English class at El Cerrito High. And teachers have placed her in an honors English class next year >>> FULL TEXT


    Left hook

    Iran-U.S.

    International Haftegi: The Islamic Republic is constantly retreating from its position vis a vis the U.S. >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN


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More Letters

* Nice way to start a war

Bill Phillipson writes to CBS television's "60 Minutes":

I watched your show on the supposed "Iranian Defector", and became very incensed - even furious at the thought of Iran having been responsible for the PanAm bombing ["Iran Defector Talks To 60 Minutes"]. Frankly, I thought it appropriate - even at this late date - for the US to take strong military measures against Iran consequent to the "proof" which you offered.

Lo and behold! It turns out that your supposedly unimpeachable source is a fraud and that the story you presented was - in all significant respects - false ["Iranian Defector Called an Impostor "].

Nice way to start a war >>> FULL TEXT

* "Iran Pride" vs. Nike?

"eyeranian" writes: As a professional graphic designer and someone who has had more than a few battles over copyrights and ownership of images, allow me be the first one to warn Iranians for International Cooperation (IIC) and their visual communication designer, Siamack Sahafi, that their new "Iran Pride" logo WILL most likely draw the attention of Nike >>> FULL TEXT

* Misguided generation

Iram Fatima Vakil writes: I'm not Iranian, but I know and believe that what Aytollah Khomeini did was not something any ordinary person like our own selves can do... And today two decades after the revolution, the new generation is a little misguided ["Three years later"]. They says they want freedom, but don't they realize that they got thier freedom 20 years ago >>> FULL TEXT

* What the hell?

Hamid Atabakksh writes: What the hell is the point ["Sisters"]? Don't waste my time.


Panel: Inside Iran's Domestic Politics, New York

Inside Iran's Domestic Politics, a panel discussion on Tuesday, June 27, 2000, 6:30 - 8:30pm at Lighthouse International (111 E. 59th Street, between Lexington and Park, New York City. Panelists: Elaine Sciolino, Senior Writer, The New York Times,
-- Elahé Sharifpour-Hicks, Researcher, Human Rights Watch
-- Gary G. Sick, Senior Research Scholar and Director, Gulf/2000 Project, Columbia University -- Moderator: Nicholas Platt, President, Asia Society. To register, call 212-517-ASIA or email policy@asiasoc.org


Book

Being Modern in Iran
By Fariba Adelkhah
2000, Columbia University Press

What does it mean to be modern in Iran today? Can one properly speak of modernity in relation to what many consider to be the paradigmatic Islamic state? Since its1979 revolution seized the world´s attention, the Islamic Republic of Iran has remained a subject of misunderstanding, passion, and polemic, making these questions difficult to answer - or even to ask. This book - a study of Iran´s political culture in the broadest and deepest sense - looks into both of these questions by examining the tremendous changes taking place in Iran today >>> GO HERE

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    Poetry

Translation of today's poem by Zara Houshmand:

You're so coupled to life, which lasts but a day,

That you can't even hear talk of death.

Life looks for a home and finds it in death,

But your donkey fell asleep on the way.

-- Rumi
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BBC

G-15

Iran has made a request for membership in the G15 Group. Some membering countries have already expressed their support of this membership >>> LISTEN HERE

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