THE IRANIAN
TIMES
Tuesday, April 7, 1998
Farvardin 18, 1377
No. 451
Abu Saeed
Headlines
* Karbaschi: Harsh conditions at Evin
* POW: Fighter pilot home after 18-years in Iraq
* Sardar Nosrat: Amirteymour's memoirs
* Satire: Conservatives' wishful thinking?
* Abadan: AIT soccer team
* The Web: Community site
* Music: Pooran
Index
| * Karbaschi:
In Evin * Iran-U.S.: Malaysia * Features: Research reactor * News: Pilot back * Economy: Price jumps * Dollar: 510-520 * Sports: Mahdavi-kia * Arts: SF film festival * The Web: Payvand.org * Academic: CIRA |
THE WEB
* Cupertino Iranian Community Site: Dedicated to the commitment of introducing the Iranian culture to the community and passing our cultural treasures to the next generation... http://www.payvand.org/... Fariba Nejat <Payvand95@aol.com>
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KARBASCHI
* Tehran mayor experiences harsh conditions at infamous Evin prison, (AFP) - Tehran mayor Gholam-Hossein Karbaschi has been barred from receiving visits at the notorious Evin prison where he is being held on corruption charges and subjected to gruelling interrogation. Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of ex-president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, said Tuesday that Karbaschi "is banned from being visited" and criticized the justice system for its "suspect and arbitrary" order to arrest him Saturday. "This affair has a political color about it," Hashemi, a reformist close to Karbaschi, told a session of parliament... full text
* Cabinet ministers express regret, (Hamshahri)... full text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand.
* Karbaschi's lawyer explains charges, (Hamshahri)... full text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand.
* Isfahan Friday Prayer leader backs Karbaschi, (Hamshahri)... full text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand.
* Majlis speakers reaction, (Hamshahri)... full text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand.
* People's response to mayor's arrest: "There's a history of punishing those who have served well, (Hamshahri)... full text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand.
IRAN-U.S.
* U.S. official due in Malaysia on Iran-Petronas deal, (Reuters) - A senior State Department official will visit Malaysia this week to review an investment by state oil company Petronas in Iran that could trigger U.S. sanctions, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy, Sanctions and Commodities William Ramsay was due to arrive in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday for two days of talks, a U.S. embassy official said... full text
FEATURES
* Russia plans new reactor in Iran, official says, (Washington Post) - The new leader of Russia's nuclear ministry said today that Russia has proposed building a research reactor in Iran, in addition to the atomic energy plant under construction there that has drawn protests from Israel and the United States... full text
NEWS
* Iranian fighter pilot returns home after 18-year captivity in Iraq, (AFP) - An Iranian air force pilot has returned home after 18 years in captivity in Iraq in the latest exchange of POWs between the two former enemies, newspapers here reported Tuesday.Lieutenant Colonel Hossein Lashkari, whose plane was shot down soon after the start of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, came back on Sunday with 22 other former Iranian troops released by Iraq in exchange for 500 Iraqis freed by Iran... full text
* Eid Qorban: Muslims mark Feast of Sacrifice at Haj end, (Reuters) - Muslim pilgrims in Saudi Arabia slaughtered sheep, cows and camels and symbolically stoned Satan in the final rituals of the annual haj pilgrimage Tuesday. The observances marked the start of the Muslim Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice)... full text
* Iran, U.N. sign agreement on drug education, (Reuters) - Iran has signed an agreement with the United Nations on fighting drug proliferation and use, Iranian television said on Tuesday. Iran is a key transit route for drugs smuggled from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Europe and Gulf Arab states... full text
ECONOMY
* Iran faces price jumps due to more expensive fuel, (Reuters) - The cost of living for ordinary Iranians has risen sharply as annual government fuel price increases take effect, newspapers said on Tuesday. The daily Farda reported increases of up to 40 percent in the prices of basic foodstuffs and said Tehran taxi fares wereup 50 percent since the end of the Iranian year on March 20. It blamed the increases on rises in prices of state- subsidised goods and services, particularly fuel prices, which rose by up to 50 percent... full text
* Iran imported $700 mln fuel in year to March-paper, (Reuters) - Iran, a major oil exporter, imported some $700 million worth of refined petroleum products in the year to March, up 15 percent on the previous year, a newspaper said on Tuesday. The daily Resalat said the country imported four billion litres of petrol and kerosene worth $700 million to meet local demand. It did not say where the imports came from.... full text
DOLLAR RATE
Unchanged
* To send money to Iran, the rate is 510-520 tomans per dollar, depending on how much you wish to send.
* To send money out of Iran, the rate is 525 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
ARTS
* Understanding Kurdish music, (Hamshahri)... full text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand.
* 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.
* Iranian films in Washington DC: A festival of some recent Iranian films is planned in Washington, DC, during March/April 1998. The films are shown at the 300-seat Meyer Auditorium of the Freer Gallery. Tickets are free and can be obtained (up to two per person) on a first-come-first-served basis one hour prior to the program. Films being shown: March 8/13: Leila (Dariush Mehrjui), March 20/22: Det Means Girl (Abolfazl Jalili), March 27/29: Gabbeh (Mohsen Makhmalbaf), April 3: Beyond Fire (Kianoush Ayyari), April 5: A True Story (Jalili), April 17: The Abadanis (Kiarostami), April 26: Taste of Cherries (Kiarostami).
* "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
Mossadegh & "Sardar Nosrat"
Different times, different styles
A tribal leader's memoirs
Excerpts from Khaterat-e Amirteymur Kalali, the memoirs of Mohammad Ebrahim Amirteymour Kalali -- also known as Sardar Nosrat -- edited by Habib Ladjevardi. Amirteymour was a tribal leader, Majles deputy, and cabinet minister during Reza Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah's reign. The book was published in 1997 by the Iranian Oral History Project at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies... go to feature
NOSTALGIA
* Abadan Institute of Technology (AIT) soccer team
SPORTS
* Mahdavi-kia honored by Asian Soccer Federation, (Hamshahri)... full text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand.
* Full report on world wrestling championships in Oklahoma, (Hamshahri)... full text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand.
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SATIRE
Wishful thinking?
* Tying the grass and wishing for the ouster of pro-Khatami forces... click here
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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
* Contest
Omar Khayyam Poetry Society invites you to enter our poetry contest. Prizes: First place $100, Second $75, Third $50. Winners will be announced and printed in THE IRANIAN in June 1998.
Subject: Longing places, memories, love
Format: Poems must be in English and emailed to <matteof@msn.com>. Include your name, address and phone number.
Deadline: May 10, 1998
Entry fee: $5 for up to three poems. You may send cash or check payable to R. Macroberts. Send to 1045 Walnut Grove, Rochester Hills, MI 48306, USA.
ARE YOU AN ARCHITECHT?
The Darvag Arts Foundation in Berkeley, California, is looking for an architect to draw up plans to bring the existing Darvag Theater up to city codes. Up to now through a combination of community support, hard work, luck, and the generosity of our landlord we have managed to maintain "our home". We are now faced with the the precarious reality of losing this Iranian-American community center which is located at 3280 Adeline Street in Berkeley.
To prevent the realization of this disaster we have taken a number of initiatives. Firstly, we have invited the Shotgun Players, an East Bay based theater group, to share the space with us. They in turn, have agreed to undertake the cost of putting in the basic improvements in order to bring the space up to code. For our part, we have commited ourselves to providing the architectural drawings for the conversion of the existing theater space into a 49 seat up-to-code theater. We therefore need the donated services of an architect to provide us with the neccessary plans.
Darvag is a registered non-profit theater group that is made up of people with normal, mundane and partly exciting lives. One of it's main missions is to develop the public voice of Iranian Americans and to represent our emerging culture in a way that has relevance both to ourselves and in some cases to all Americans.
If you can be any help please contact;
Bella Ramazan-Nia, Tel. (510) 527-3611, email: ramazannia@earthlink.net
LETTERS
Come home
Iran has changed a lot. And even that is different from what you really think. Of course, there may be some problems here and you may be more comfortable somewhere else.But we must know that we are all Iranian and our love is Iran. So try to come back to make Iran great, powerful, and developed. Anyway I wish a very wonderful 1377 to all of you and your families. Shiraz, Kaveh Bashti <bashtik@pearl.sums.ac.ir>
BOOKSTORE
Book of the week
Khaterat-e Amirteymur Kalali
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
1997, Iranian Oral History Project
Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Available from Iranbooks
Memoirs of Mohammad Ebrahim Amirteymour Kalali -- also known as Sardar
Nosratwas a tribal leader, Majles deputy, and cabinet minister during Reza
Shah and Mohammad Reza Shah's reign.
See feature in THE IRANIAN. Click
here
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ACADEMIC
* 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 UniversityÕs Middle East Center. In addition to proposals related to the conference theme, paper abstracts and panel proposals on all social, political, historical, economic, literary and artistic issues related to Iran, the Middle East and Central Asia are welcome. Please submit an abstract (300-400 words), paper title, name and complete address (including e-mail address, if available) no later than January 12, 1998. Send abstracts and requests for additional information to: Dr. Nader Entessar, CIRA Executive Director, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL 36608, USA; phone (1-334)380-3051; fax (1-334)460-2184; e-mail <entessar@azalea.shc.edu>; website <http://www-adm.pdx.edu/user/mesc/cira/>.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Birjand
* Boy and woman in an alley in Birjand... full image
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MUSIC
* Pooran, "Veeroon beshi ey del"
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QUOTE UNQUOTE
A blow
Karbaschi's arrest is a blow to democracy, political and political and cultural reform in Iran.
Faezeh Hashemi
Majlis deputy and daughter of former president Rafsanjani
"Tehran
mayor experiences harsh conditions at infamous Evin prison"
AFP
April 7, 1998
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