The Iranian Times

Wednesday, June 21, 2000 / Tir 1, 1379, No. 1006


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By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
June 21, 2000
The Iranian

Trying to make an "Iranian Sunday" in Berkeley >>> GO TO FEATURE


Outlook

Feminist women free on bail

TEHRAN, June 21 (AFP) - Two Iranian feminists arrested and detained for having attended an "anti-Islamic" seminar in Berlin in April were freed on bail pending trial, the state news agency IRNA reported. Lawyer Mehranghiz Kar and publisher Shahla Lahiji, known for their campaign for women's rights in Iran, had been held in Evin prison since April 29 for their presence at the seminar earlier in the month >>> FULL TEXT

Akbar Ganji's third letter

Tehran (Bahar) -- Political columnist Akbar Ganji, detained for his "anti-Islamic" comments at the Berlin conference, has written yet another letter to the judiciary chief >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN

Soroush addresses Shariati seminar

Tehran (Bahar) -- "Those who sell religion are the biggest threat against a religious society," said Islamic thinker Abdolkarim Soroush at a seminar on Ali Shariati at Hosseiniyeh Ershad FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN


    Left hook

    New direction

    Kargar Emrooz: Iraj Azin's critique of the new direction chosen by the Iranian Communist Workers Party >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN


    Anyway

Bamshad says hi (wink)

Hi evrybody !

My name is Bamshad and I am 23 year old boy. I am studynig to get my M.S. in hydraulic engineering [in Iran]. I would be so glad to have some nice friends (females first!!!!). And these are my characteristics : 184 cm height , 65 kg weight , black soft hair and eyes (not heeezz!!). >>> GO HERE



More Letters

* Childish

T. Zolfaghari writes: May I suggest that you create a "children's section" and post Ms. Najmeh Fakhraie's articles there. You must be very desperate for articles, if you are letting them appear on your front page. I am mostly referring to "Tehran's good side" which lacks good taste and judgement.

I lived in Tehran for 27 years and it has never reminded me of drug addicts, homeless children and rude people. What exactly is Ms. Fakhraie comparing Tehran to? Could it be the United States in 1855?!

* Deport ALL Iranians too?

Mohsen Kashani writes: Comments by some of the readers about the necessity of deporting Afghan refugees are very disturbing, to say the least... With the influx of Iranian refugees in the U.S. during the past decade, I have had the opportunity to read about their involvement in criminal activities, from petty drug dealing, to major drug trafficking, to heinous murders.

I guess this gives the native people of America the right to demand the repatriation of ALL Iranians who "are responsible for the eventual political turmoil within" Iran "by neglecting to remove the backward and savage Taliban." Well, our version of Taliban, that is >>> FULL TEXT

* Por kardan-e jib

Ahmad Osgouee writes: Googoosh aamad nah baraaye khaandan balkeh baraaye por kardan-e jib-e khod va Kambiz joonesh. Googoosh 20 saal nakhaandeh ast. 20 saal peesh cheh meekhaand, haalaa cheh bekhaanad? Shaah Maahi-e Iran noon-e qiyaafash raa meekhorad va ella naneh-ye bandeh behtar az Googoosh meekhaanad. man ki bilmiram!

* Best news ever

Mohammadreza Akbarbaygi writes: Thank you very much for this news about Googoosh ["Khosh oomadi"]. I live in Tehran and I told this to about 100 people and forwarded your news to 48 friends. Everyone said it was the best news they have ever heard! Thank you very much much again.


Art: Call for Iranian artists: July 18

Dear Artists and Friends: Evolving Perceptions, the annual exhibition for Iranian and Iranian American artists, is holding its 4th annual exhibition in Washington DC at 505 Gallery in the DC Gallery District. Please read below for information regarding EP and the Call for Artists. Please encourage all the artists you know you participate! >>> DETAIILS HERE


Book

Comprehensive History of the Jews of Iran :
The Outset of the Diaspora

By Habib Levy
1999, Mazda Publishers

A reader writes: This is a fascinating history of the oldest Jewish community in the Diaspora. In an initial chapter,the author makes a credible case that the ten lost tribes of Israel are really the Jews of Kurdistan and other northern provinces of ancient Persia. Since Babylon was a Persian province for a thousamd years, the Babylonia talmud was really a product of Persia's Jewish community and Persia was the center of Jewish thought for a thousand years >>> GO HERE

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    Poetry

Translation of today's poem by Zara Houshmand:

I drank wine from the soul's own bowl;

I'm so drunk that my mind is insane.

A fire was kindled in me by a candle;

The sun itself is a moth beside that flame.
-- Rumi
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Golshiri Foundation: Independent

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Swiss Cultural Week in Tehran

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Esteqlalis crying over Hashemi-Nasb bonus

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U-17 preparing "without support"

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Faraki gets top coaching job at Pass

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Sad, but...

Our community is very sad. It's affected by this affair, because people are poorly informed or spread rumors... We, however, we feel Iranian. We have been here for 3,500 years!

-- Samir, 70-year-old Shirazi Jew
AFP
June 21, 2000


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