THE IRANIAN
TIMES
Friday, April 17, 1998
Farvardin 28, 1377
No. 459
Abu Saeed
Headlines
* Karbaschi: Rafsanjani defends mayor
* Travel: Ramin goes to Iran
* Apology: Radio station on offending Iranians
* Interview: Kiarostami speaks to NPR
* World Cup: Get your tickets now!
* Letter: I'll give you identity crisis...
* Nostalgia: Dar emtedaad-e Googoosh
Index
| * Iran-U.S.:
Win Iran * Features: Rafsanjani * News: Reuters coop * Apology: Radio insult * Economy: Total/France * Dollar: Unchanged * Sports: World Cup tickets * Arts: Kiarostami * The Web: Radio Shahrvand * Academic: SIS |
THE WEB
* Radio Shahrvand -- Broadcasting persian programs from Gotheburg, Sweden
* Association of Iranian American Professionals -- ... in San Diego, California
* www.hafez.com:
"Established and targeted toward the Iranian Community in & around
The Boston Area, New England & beyond." So why drag poor Hafez
into this?
Site forwarded by Payman Arabshahi payman@neda.com
* Persians in Seattle: For an up-to-date calendar of Persian community events in the Seattle area see the AIWS web page.
* Artist: Sohi Zargham Shargh- These are the works of my mother, handpainted on silk chanton. They have been featured on the Golestan online art gallery in Tehran. The description was written by myself, and the photographs taken by student photographers in Tehran. I hope you'll enjoy them! Maryam Shargh <mzsnyc@interport.net>
* Museum of Contemporary Iranian Artists: Links to various artists on the internet. Yari Ostovany has done a beautiful job putting this extensive site together.
* ParsDance: All about Persian dance music. It has the latest real audio clips from some of the most popular Iranian pop singers. Forwarded by jafarigm@email.msn.com
Any interesting web sites you would like to suggest?
Email us at Times@iranian.com
IRAN-U.S.
* Editorial: How to win friends in Iran (Chicago Tribune) - ...just as the president failed to veto the ill-conceived Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, another untimely focus of bitter dispute between Tehran and Washington, he has apparently caved in and now plans to spend almost $1 million getting Radio Free Iran up and running. The decision has not yet been made public, so Clinton still has time to avoid this fiasco--and send a powerful signal to Iran that the U.S. sincerely wants to improve relations... full text
* Russia ``perplexed'' at U.S. Iran arms suspicions, (Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it was ``perplexed'' that the United States still harboured suspicions that some Russian agencies might be supplying technology for Iran's missile programme. ``Russia has frequently, including at the highest level, given the necessary assurances to its American partners that there are no contacts in the missile sector between our official structures and Iran,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Valery Nesterushkin said in a prepared statement... full text
FEATURES
* Rafsanjani laments "bitter" political crisis, defends mayor, (AFP) - Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani strongly defended Tehran mayor Gholam-Hossein Karbaschi on Friday and described the political storm that erupted after his arrest as a "bitter" experience... Rafsanjani, who still wields great power as chairman of the Expediency Council, an advisory body to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, strongly defended the mayor, who was released from prison on Wednesday after his arrest on April 4 on corruption charges... full text
* Rafsanjani criticizes "ignorant friends" in mayor's arrest... Tehran Radio news in Persian on Rafsanjani's friday Prayers sermon... click here (RealAudio) ... IRNA report
* 20th century leaders and revolutionaries: Ayatollah Khomeini (TIME)... click here
NEWS
* IRNA, Reuters to expand mutual cooperation, (IRNA) - managing director of the islamic republic news agency (irna) fereydoun vardinejad and chief executive of reuters peter job in a meeting here on friday expressed their willingness to expand mutual cooperation through holding more and deepter talks. a memorandum of understanding signed between the two sides in the course of a two-day talks between the two sides calls for close and helpful vocational ties between irna and reuters through gaining direct access to each other's news facilities, photo archives and data banks... full text... (with photo of Vardinejad & Job)
APOLOGY
* San Diego radio station apologizes for offending Iranians - "On behalf of Q106 and Jacor Communications, I would like to apologize for the remarks and comments that were made. The remarks were totally unacceptable and we do not encourage or tolerate in any way this type of behavior. It is certainly against all our beliefs and philosophy as a company, and had no place on our airwaves..." ... full text
ECONOMY
* Total unaffected by local phase of South Pars, (IRNA) - Total of france is forging ahead with the execution of its two development agreements with iran with oil production from sirri a expected to begin this year and for gas and condensate from south pars in 2001. according to its new factbook, oil production from the related sirri e field is also due early next year. plans for south pars are for an expected plateau of 2 billion cubic feet of gas a day and up to 80 m barrels per day of condensate ... full text
*Politics and oil cause Iranian exchange rate jitters, (MEES) - combination of political concerns and underlying worries over oil prices was behind the fall in the exchange rate of the Iranian riyal last week. Given that oil prices have been low for some months now, it seems more likely that, of the two factors, the political goes further towards explaining the timing of the riyal's collapse... full text
DOLLAR RATE
Unchanged
* To send money to Iran, the rate is 525-535 tomans per dollar, depending on how much you wish to send.
* To send money out of Iran, the rate is 545 tomans per dollar.
Source: Sehaty Foreign Exchange, call in U.S.: 602-595-0777 or 500-288-8881. Preferntial rates for readers of The Iranian Times. Mention this code: BAJ 07
SPORTS
* Sportestan now selling World Cup tickets
Sportestan now fulfills orders for Iran World Cup game tickets. This is a special opportunity for those football fans who cannot purchase our World Cup tour packages. We guarantee the availability of the tickets. Those interested please call 650-327-1919 or call toll-free number 888-464-7698 within the U.S. If lines are busy, please fax your request to 650-327-3939. You can also send email to ish@sportestan.com.
The prices are as follows:
June 14: Iran-Yugoslavia
Category 3 ticket: $175
Category 2ticket: $225
June 21: Iran-USA
Category 3: $175
Category 2: $225
June 25: Iran-Germany
Not available now, but will be available soon.
Sportestan can still provide complete tour packages to those fans who need hotel accommodation and transportation in addition to game tickets. For a complete listing, please visit Sportestan's web site at www.sportestan.com.
SATIRE
* Caviar: A great delicacy Iranians themselves rarely get to enjoy... poem's full text
Got something to make us smile?
Send it to Times@iranian.com
POETRY
* Fereydoun Moshiri on CD
Fereydoun Moshiri's poetry reading last October in Berkeley, California, is now available on CD. For more information and orders, contact Radio Havaye Tazeh at: 415-673-4726.
Listen to Moshiri's reading of "Kucheh"... here's the poem's text
ARTS
* Interview with Abbas Kiarostami, (NPR) -- Pat Dowell of the U.S. National Public radio reports on "Taste of Cherry", a film by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. The movie shared the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997. It's now opening in theaters around the country (April 7, 1998) ... click here (in RealAudio format)... forwarded by nima@artnet.net
* 'Gabbeh' weaves a mysterious tale (Dallas Morning News) - Here on the balding North Texas prairie, the soul cries out for color. So a breathtakingly beautiful film such as Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Gabbeh is a gratifying banquet for the eyes. Set on the remote steppes of southeastern Iran, this lyrical ode to a disappearing way of life from that country's most popular (and controversial) director shouts out "love is color" in sun-washed vibrant hues... The energetic Mr. Makhmalbaf, spellbound by the exotic landscape and fascinated by the stories woven into the gabbehs, turned it into a mysterious tale with a caravan of nonactors, donkeys, sheep and goats on a staged migration... full text
* Monday, Apr 20, 7:30 pm, UC Berkeley Lecture and films "Oak" and "The Flaming Poppy" Iranian professor Mohammad Farhad Atai presents two ethnographic films about Bakhitiari nomads--> 155 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley in Berkeley, CA (Accessible)[UC Center for Middle Eastern Studies (510) 642-8208].
* The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival is scheduled from April 23 to May 7. There are two Iranian films; "Leila" by Dariush Mehrjui and "Season Five" a coproduction of Iran & France directed by Rafi Pitts. The full film guides is on line at: www.sfiff.org/fest98... For festival information, call 415-931-film.
* "Taste of Cherry" U.S. screen schedules from the official Zeitgeist Film site... click here...Thanks to Payman Arabshahi <payman@fermi.jpl.nasa.gov>
THE IRANIAN
Safarnaameh-ye Ramin
An Iranian-American travels to Iran for the first time
the ride home? the highways here have three lanes. people drive in 5- 6 lanes, if you can call them lanes. theyre all over the place! one night our taxi driver missed the exit. he stopped, went in reverse about 3 kilometers in the busy highway and took our exit! another night my uncle was driving us for chelo-kabab and he was hungry. the traffic was horrible on our side so he crossed the divide at an opening and went into oncoming traffic and passed them all! my mom was screaming. i was quite thrilled -- my belly was empty too! (the chelo-kabob -- it must have been 3 feet, strecthing the lenght of the table!)... go to feature
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Off to war
* September 1980: Oil and gas workers called to military service... full image
Got any interesting photos?
Send them to Times@iranian.com
QUESTION
Iranian Democratic Council?
In light of hearing about the Iranian-Republican Council, I was curious if there are any Iranian Democratic organizations in existence?
Sara R. Zamani
azman@jps.net
LETTERS
* I'll give you identity crisis...
You think you have an identity crisis ["Who am I"]? I am an UK citizen, but born in the former Yugoslavia. My father was of Iranian origin, but all the records were destroyed as they came to Yugoslavia during the Second World War, and the names were changed ( since they were academics and my father became a Communist-he had to) etc.
I am a practicing Muslim and with very passionate feeling for Iranian culture and people as well as language (which I try to re-learn now). I would like to have an Iranian passport since my desire is to go and live in Iran at some point (I am completing my Ph.D. right now and teaching at the university) but I don't want to do it through marriage etc.
I look Persian, I feel Persian and I am of Persian blood. But I can't prove it. I would even pay for the privilege, I don't mind. I hope that this is strange enough to make your "crisis" less tragic! Angie filman@globalnet.co.uk
BOOKSTORE
Book of the week
The
Hafez Poems of Gertrude Bell
With the Original Persian on the Facing Page
Gertrude Lowthian Bell
Iranbooks 1995
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ACADEMIC
* The Society for Iranian Studies is hosting its Second Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies May 22-24 in Bethesda, Md. The Society is eager for a good attendance, and anyone who can make it is very welcome. Conference details at: http://www.iranian-studies.org/confProg.html ... forwarded by Mahvash Shahegh <mshahegh@skipjack.soc.lib.md.us>
* The Faculty of Oriental Studies at Cambridge wish to make an appointment to a temporary, unestablished fixed-term post which carries responsibility for Persian language teaching from elementary to advanced undergraduate level, and involves a contribution to the teaching of Persian literature, particularly poetry. The person appointed will also be expected to contribute to the graduate teaching and research programme in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Further particulars and an application form may be obtained from the Secretary of the Faculty of Oriental Studies (Mrs D.M. Bennett), Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, to whom applications (six copies, including a curriculum vitae, list of publications, and names and addresses of two referees) should be sent to arrive by 25 May 1998.
* Iran and the Region: Past, Present and Future Relations with Its Neighbors April 24-25, 1998 Portland, Oregon, USA The Center for Iranian Research and Analysis (CIRA) will hold its 16th annual conference in association with Portland State University's Middle East Center. For more information visit the CIRA website <http://www-adm.pdx.edu/user/mesc/cira/>.
NOSTALGIA
MUSIC
* Aref, "Eshq"
(Get RealAudio)
Greatest pop CDs ON SALE!
QUOTE UNQUOTE
Persian look & feel
I look Persian, I feel Persian and I am of Persian blood. But I can't prove it. I would even pay for the privilege.
Angie
British citizen born in Yugoslavia to an Iranian father
"I'll give you identity crisis"
The Iranian
April 17, 1998
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