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Cover story
Theater of deception
Confessions of an Iranian spy novelist
By Salar Abdoh
February 5, 2001
The Iranian
I was hated not because my skin was particularly any darker than the
British boys I went to boarding school with. If anything, in the years
since, I've come to think maybe they hated me for the opposite reason,
for the jarring proximity of my color to their own pale skins. There was
an element of the subversion of the natural order of things in my not being
anything other than white.
We were Wogs, after all. Golliwogs, Woggies, Paks, Pakis; you name the
name and we had it. One name that has stuck in memory was this: Excuse
for a Camel's Ass >>>
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UK
Brits & Britain
Letter to a friend
By Reza Sami Gorgan Roodi
February 5, 2001
The Iranian
Dear Buddy,
I hope you are all in good health and that life is treating you well.
In your letter you say that you have decided to come to England to continue
your education and asked me about life in this country. If you are curious
to know what we are doing here, let me quench your thirst and tell you,
from my point of view, about how life is in this part of the British Isles
>>>
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Poetry
Hide & seek
My first day at a British university
By Reza Sami Gorgan Roodi
February 5, 2001
The Iranian
The sun plays hide and seek
the trees bloom behind the buildings
the birds patrol the sky
a wasp makes love to a flower
an aeroplane cuts the blue >>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Niazi and the issue of Ahmad Khomeini's death >>>
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Outlook
Women activists on Evin experience
* Prison's
Revelations
By Mehrangiz Kar
* Evin is not that
bad
By Shirin Ebadi
* Evin Hotel is
further down the road
By Shahla Lahiji
"We told you - no more scoops"
Geneive Abdo, the Guardian's correspondent in Iran, was forced to
leave at the weekend under threat of prosecution. She explains the country's
problem with freedom of expression, and recounts her own experience
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Reuters withdraws Tehran bureau chief
BBC Persian Service
The bureau chief of the Reuters news agency in Iran and his wife, also
a journalist, have left the country and the Iranian authorities say neither
will be allowed to return >>>
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writes: As a response to Mr. Guive Mirfendereski's two recent articles
["Power
of one","Face
in the mirror"] and his many letters against Persian
Watch Cat (PWC) during the past several weeks and his defending Senator
Dianne Feinstein in his letters and articles, a historical piece of news
by Associated Press is presented for publication >>>
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* Scared of a referendum?
Mandana Ghajar
writes: I found your article "Citizen
Pahlavi" rather hypocritical and contradictory. Surely a referendum
should allow Iranians to have a full choice of options for the future of
Iran. This is the least Iranians deserve after the years of hardship that
they have had to endure >>>
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* You know what people want?
Kerman01 writes: I
am not arguing the merits of constitutional monarchy versus a republic,
Islamic, democratic or otherwise ["Citizen
Pahlavi"]... You think you know what the people of Iran want before
you ask them? How is your logic and argument different from the mollas?
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* Very true
Faramarz Kaviani
writes: Thank you for an honest and unbiased editorial ["Citizen
Pahlavi"]. This article is very true and comprehansive. My regards
to people who think and write this way.
* Expected better judgment
Masood M. writes: Thank you for your coverage of Marziyeh
in this week's music section. It certainly brought back lots of memories
listening to her glorious voice. However, I was saddened and sorry to learn
that she has been singing for the Mojahedin Khalq >>>
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The simpler our hands and hearts, the more free
Of the world around, the happier we'll be.
Penniless pleasure, gone in a blink,
Is better than the pomp of a thousand kings.
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Officials deny jailed reformist journalist
on hunger strike
TEHRAN, Feb 5 (AFP) - Officials have denied reports that
jailed reformist journalist Ahmad Zeid-Abadi has gone on a hunger strike
to protest prison conditions, a newspaper reported Monday. The conservative
Kayhan afternoon paper, citing prison officials, said a medical team had
performed tests Sunday which reveal that Zeid-Abadi is in a satisfactory
physical condition, and that inmates had also witnessed the journalist eat
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Iran denies Reuters bureau chief expelled
TEHRAN, Feb 4 (AFP) - Iranian officials on Sunday denied
they had ordered the expulsion of the bureau chief of the Reuters news agency
and said Jonathan Lyons left because he was facing possible legal action
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TEHRAN, Feb 4 (AFP) - Iran's embattled Deputy Interior
Minister Mostafa Tajzadeh, a close reformist ally of President Mohammad
Khatami, returned to court Sunday in his trial for electoral fraud. Court
officials only permitted a small group of Iranian journalists to cover the
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Political row over Iran budget to be referred
to oversight council
TEHRAN, Feb 4 (AFP) - A conservative-led Iranian oversight
council has rejected next year's budget despite its approval by the reform-majority
parliament, legislative sources said Sunday. The rejection means the political
row over the budget for the Iranian year beginning in March will be adjudicated
by the powerful Expediency Council for the first time since Iran's 1979
Islamic revolution >>>
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US flags up, then down, at Tehran film
festival: paper
TEHRAN, Feb 3 (AFP) - US flags put up for an international
film festival in Tehran have been taken down by order of the culture ministry,
the Kayhan newspaper said Saturday. The paper did not give any further
details about why the flags at various cinemas had been taken down for the
annual Fajr festival marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution
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TEXT
Government should face human rights tribunal:
MKO
LONDON, Feb 3 (AFP) - Leading figures in the government
should be brought before an international tribunal for "crimes against
humanity," the self-acclaimed "shadow foreign minister" of
Iran's controversial Iraqi based exiled opposition said on Saturday >>> FULL
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Nearly one tonne of heroin seized in Tehran
in 10 months
TEHRAN, Feb 5 (AFP) - Nearly one tonne of heroin was seized
in Tehran over the past 10 months, the Iranian capital's police chief, Mohsen
Ansari, said Sunday. "Over the past 10 months, 838 kilograms of heroin
were seized in Tehran", Ansari was quoted as saying by the Iranian
daily Kayhan >>>
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Ukrainian PM to discuss oil, planes, pipelines
in Iran
KIEV, Feb 5 (AFP) - Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yushenko
will pay a two-day visit to Iran beginning Tuesday to discuss purchases
of Iranian oil, a new gas pipeline project and cooperation in aviation.
Yushenko may have an opportunity to meet with Iranian President Mohammad
Khatami during his stay, according to Ukrainian media >>>
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