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Negotiating with the devil
They sounded like they were trading camels
By Siamack Baniameri
November 28, 2000
The Iranian
Reza is a shrewd Iranian businessman who prides himself of being the
biggest charlatan in North America. He is a type that paints a Yugo and
sells it as a Cadillac. He cheats, lies, deceives, and manipulates with
ease and sleeps like a baby at night. Reza, the only son of a multi millionaire
bazaari from Mashhad, should be the poster child for Planned Parenthood.
They should hang a picture of him on the wall with these words, "Here
is another reason for birth control." >>>
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Music
Hafez... yeah, yeah, yeah!
November 28, 2000
The Iranian
Rock songs with 14th century Persian poems? Yup. Sure. Why not?
A band in Iran, calling itself "O-Hum", has released their
first album called Nahal-e heyrat (Young tree of bewilderment) using
Hafez poems as lyrics >>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Necessities of the sixth Majlis [elections] >>>
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Outlook
Iran's Khatami Is Caught in the Middle
By Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson Washington Pos
November 28, 2000
TEHRAN -- When Mohammad Khatami was elected president 3 1/2 years ago,
many Iranians expected that his reform plans would reintegrate this isolated
nation into the global economy and bring new freedoms to a young population
weary of strict Islamic government. But six months from Iran's next presidential
election, Khatami's most important reforms have been strangled by a conservative
opposition >>>
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IIPP calls for open trial
BBC Persian Service
IIPP calls for open court in political killings case Islamic Iran Participation
Party has called for an open court in the case of serial political killings.
In a statement, IIPP states that such a move will help restore the damaged
reputations of the judiciary. Sima Bahrami asks Naser Zarafshan, one of
the lawyers in the case about the motives behind the IIPP's statement >>> LISTEN
HERE
Iranians favor better ties with the U.S.
Washington DC, 28 November 2000 (Iranians for International Cooperation)
-- Iranians for International Cooperation (IIC) welcomes a major national
opinion survey conducted by the Foreign Policy Association of New York,
a nonpartisan, national organization dedicated to informing Americans about
foreign policy issues. The poll reveals that a vast majority of Americans
are ready to normalize relations with Iran >>>
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Sore looser?
Or Republican propaganda? Who cares. It's funny >>>
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More Letters
* Right on the money
Arash Alavi writes:
Ali Akbar Mahdi ["Making
a hero"] is right on the money when he suggests that Ebrahim Nabavi
made a mockery of the court by engaging in a theatrical resistance to his
captors and making the whole trial look like a farce.
For those who are familiar with his work, Nabavi's performance in court
was indistinguishable from some of his published writings. His "defense"
was perhaps by far the best piece of satire produced by him.
It is a sign of Nabavi's genius that he has been able to use his own
"trial" to communicate his satire to his audience, now that he
can no longer publish his works.
* Married a Black man?!!
Iraani
writes: I was very upset to see that a person degraded herself so much
that she married a Black man [Maryam
and Daryl]!!! This is a disgrace to all of us!!!!
AND worse than that you put her picture on your site as if she was some
kind of hero or something!!! Even though she is not all that but still
it is big disgrace to our kind!!!
* Streak in Iranian character
Katayoun Jarrah-Layegh,
writes: Well done to The Iranian Times for publishing the letter
entitled "Proud to be Persian"
right below the utterly disgusting
piece written by our learned friend Mr Farzad Farahani. I suppose the
irony will be lost on Mr Farahani.
Mr Farahani demonstrates a streak in the Iranian character (both male
and female) which makes me feel ashamed of being Persian.
Music: Forough Farrokhzad, Carnegie
Hall
NEW YORK, November 19, 2000 The concert of predominately vocal
works features the world premiere of The wind will carry us by Ensemble
Sospeso Co-Director Kirk Noreen on a text by Forugh Farrokhzad, perhaps
Iran's greatest modern woman poet. Iranian born soprano Haleh Abghari will
be singing Mr. Noreen's work in Persian >>>
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
Since you know that I'm far from her goodness,
Forgive me for shunning good that's not her.
She has become my cane, and I am blind.
I can't walk by my self: I follow her.
* Also see more Rumi
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Rumi book
Rumi:
The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi
By Frankin D. Lewis
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Kurdish MP accuses Iran's regime of repression,
murders
TEHRAN,
Nov 28 (AFP) - A Kurdish Iranian MP launched an unprecedented attack on
the floor of parliament Tuesday, accusing the regime of murder and religious
repression of the nation's minority Sunni Muslim Kurds. Jalal Jalalizadeh,
who represents the Kurdistan provincial capital of Sanandaj, denounced what
he called a "campaign of repression, serial murders, and the banning
of the faith" of the Sunni Kurds >>> FULL TEXT
Hard-liners criticize Khatami
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iranian hard-liners harshly criticized moderate
President Mohammad Khatami for accusing them of constitutional violations,
saying it was part of a ploy to win re-election next year, newspapers reported
Tuesday. On Sunday, Khatami said hard-line opponents of his pro-democracy
reforms, including the judiciary, were violating the constitution and he
was powerless to stop them. He said the closed-door, no-jury courts that
are used to try journalists and political activists were an example of how
the constitution was being trampled >>> FULL TEXT
US, Russia discuss Iran arms sales
WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. delegation will travel to Russia next
week to discuss Moscow's decision to no longer observe a 1995 pledge not
to sell tanks and battlefield weapons to Iran, the State Department said
Tuesday. Moscow has said it will withdraw from the agreement, effective
Dec. 1, contending that recent publicity about the accord in the American
press violated a secrecy pledge agreed to by the U.S. side >>>
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Sergeyev to visit Iran: official
MOSCOW,
Nov 28 (AFP) - Russian Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev is planning to visit
Iran, a senior Russian general accompanying Sergeyev on his current trip
to Japan was quoted by the ITAR-TASS news agency as saying Tuesday. The
defence ministry's head of international cooperation, General Leonid Ivashov,
did not say when the visit would take place but the news agency quoted its
sources as saying the trip could take place as early as January 2001 >>>
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Belgian in Iran spy case "also holds
Ivorian nationality"
A
Belgian national arrested by Iran earlier this month on espionage charges
holds a second passport from the Ivory Coast, a European source told AFP
on Tuesday. "He is apparently a European businessman who also has Ivorian
nationality," said the source, who added that the man detained was
not resident in Iran but only passing through >>> FULL TEXT
13 killed after security forces launch
"clean-up" operation
Thirteen
people were killed, including three policemen, after Iran launched a week-long
"clean-up" operation in the drug-troubled eastern province of
Khorassan, state radio said Tuesday. Six hostages who had been taken by
bandits and drug smugglers in the area were freed in the operation, which
left several other people wounded and led to 11 arrests, it said >>>
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Iran expects record oil revenues thanks
to higher prices
TEHRAN,
Nov 28 (AFP) - Iran expects to generate record revenues of 21.5 billion
dollars from oil sales in the year to March 2001 thanks to higher prices,
the governor of the central bank, Mohsen Nourbakhsh, said Tuesday. "We
earned 15.6 billion dollars in oil sales between March 2000 and the end
of October and, if the current trend in prices continues, our revenues will
reach 21.5 billion dollars" at the end of the fiscal year, Nourbakhsh
told a press conference >>> FULL TEXT
Turkmenistan and Iran discuss Caspian Sea
statu
Turkmen
President Saparmurat Niyazov and Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Ahani
have discussed proposals on the status of the disputed resource-rich Caspian
Sea, official reports said Tuesday. Ahani, Iran's special representative
on Caspian issues, and Niyazov "confirmed the closeness of the positions"
of the two countries on the issue of resolving the status of the inland
sea, the Neutraly Turkmenistan reported >>> FULL TEXT
Best book nominations
Tehran
(Hambastegi) -- Press book critics nominat best novels of the year. Winner
will be named in a month >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Sepehri: 28th edition
Tehran
(Hambastegi) -- The 28th edition of Sohrab Sepehri's masterpiece "Hasht
Ketab" has been published. And other book news >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
Baizaie: Way ahead
Tehran
(Hambastegi) -- Today's generation is unable to understand the genius of
Bahram Baizaie, says art critic Parvis Rezaie >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
Iran defeat Tajikistan 2-0
Tabriz - November 28 (Iran Sports Press) -- The Iranian National
Team defeated Tajikistan 2-0 on Tuesday to clinch one of the ten spots at
next year's World Cup 2002 qualifications. A draw was enough to put favorites
Iran through thanks to the 19-0 demolition of Guam of by Iran earlier. However,
Iran had little difficulties defeating Tajikistan infront of 20,000 spectators
at the beautiful Takhti Stadium >>> FULL TEXT
Iranian Futsal team eliminated
Guatemala City - November 22 (Iran Sports Press) --The Iranian
National Futsal Team's hopes of reaching the second round ended on Wednesday
following a 7-2 loss to Spain at the 4th World Futsal Championships. Spain,
runners up of the previous World Championship and one the favorites to win
the title this year, were clearly the dominant side, having won the first
half 6-0 >>> FULL TEXT
BBC
Strategy for reforms, at last
Almost four years after its establishment,
the main coalition of Iranian reformists, the 2nd of Khordad Front, has
set up a committee to define its strategy. Behrouz Parsa discusses with
Dr. Alireza Nouri (MP) and Reza Alijani (Journalist) why the move came so
late and what will be its impact on the Iranian politics >>>
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