THE IRANIAN
TIMES
Wednesday, April 8, 1998
Farvardin 19, 1377
No. 452
Abu Saeed
Headlines
* Karbaschi: Khamenei summons three branches
* Shamloo: Hospitalized
* Human Rights: U.N. rebukes Iran for stonings
* Art Award: Derambakhsh
* Satire: Karbaschi
* Photo: POWs return home
* The Web: Y Art
Index
| * Karbaschi:
Leaders meet * Iran-U.S.: Terrorism * Features: Shamloo * News: Pilots promoted * Human Rights: U.N. report * Economy: Petronas * Dollar: Unchanged * Sports: ... & Politics * Arts: Derambakhsh * The Web: Y Art * Academic: CIRA |
THE WEB
* Y Art: Yasmine Rafii's tasteful postcards have been chosen by UNICEF for their catalogue. Take a look.
* 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
* Khamenei summons three branches of government, (IRNA) - Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei issued a communique summoning the heads of the three branches of the government, the executive, the legislative and the judiciary here wednesday night. the three branches were summoned to exchange views on the issue of the mayor of tehran, gholamhossein karbaschi... full text
* Khatami meets Khamenei over Tehran Mayor, (AP) - Iran's moderate president has met with the country's supreme leader in an apparent attempt to persuade him to intervene in a corruption case involving Tehran's jailed mayor. Khatami and Iran's hard-line supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, met Monday evening, the Farsi-language newspaper Jameah reported Tuesday.Details of the talks were not disclosed. Iran's judiciary, which reports only to Khamenei, has defended Karbaschi's arrest. The case has posed the biggest challenge to Khatami and his moderate supporters since he defeated a hard-line opponent in the 1997 presidential election... full text
IRAN-U.S.
* Sources: U.S. to accuse Iran of sponsoring terrorism, (CNN) - Despite a modest thaw in relations between the United States and Iran, CNN has learned that the U.S. government is preparing to level new accusations against Iran for its support of international terrorism. Sources say the Clinton administration will soon accuse the Iranian government of being the world's "most active state sponsor of terrorism." ... full text
* Iran daily editorial: Lasting Impressions, (IRNA) - `iran daily', the english-language newpaper here thursday editorializing on tehran-washington bilateral relations, wrote "it is a truism that first impressions are lasting impressions. that being the case, the recent treatment of the iranian national wrestling team in chicago was a step backward in improved bilateral relations... to put forth another truism: you cannot treat iranians as second class human beings and expect healthy and trustworthy relations," concluded iran daily. ... full text
FEATURES
* Ahmad Shamloo has been hospitalized for heart complications, (Jame'eh)... full text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand.
NEWS
* Released pilots promoted to general, (AFP) - Two Iranian military pilots released after years in captivity in Iraq have been promoted to brigadier general, the official IRNA news agency said Wednesday. Iran's supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, received Hossein Lashkari, who was freed after 18 years in detention in Iraq, and Mohammad Amini and promoted them to the rank of second brigadier general, the agency said... full text
* Iran honors prisoners of war released by Iraq, (Reuters) - An Iranian pilot held by Iraq for nearly 18 years embraced supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an emotional ceremony in Tehran on Wednesday after he was freed by Baghdad in a prisoner swap. Hossein Lashgari, who was captured after Iraqi air defences shot down his plane at the start of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, was given a promotion by Khamenei at the ceremony... full text
* Fate of condemned German in Iran unchanged-Bonn, (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said on Wednesday Bonn had so far failed to secure a pardon for a German businessman condemned to death in Iran for having sexual relations out of wedlock with a Moslem woman. But Kinkel told Berlin radio station Hundert 6 he had not given up hope of being able to save Helmut Hofer, 56, whose release would signal an improvement in relations with Tehran. Diplomatic efforts to release him would continue... full text
* Iran flood toll hits 84; rail to Turkmenistan cut, (Reuters) - The death toll in a week of flooding across Iran has risen to 84, state-run Tehran radio said on Wednesday. It said the floods, caused by some of the heaviest rains in the past 30 years, caused damage estimated at around 292 billion rials ($97.3 million) in nine provinces ranging from southwestern Iran to the northeast... full text
* Iranian missile project nearing critical stage: Israel, (AFP) - Iran, with Russian help, will soon pass a critical milestone in developing the engine for a medium-range missile capable of reaching Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. Quoting senior Israeli sources, the newspaper said US and Israeli intelligence agencies agreed that Iran could complete development of the engine for its Shihab 3 missile in the near future and test fire a prototype of the weapon by late next year... full text
HUMAN RIGHTS
* U.N. rebukes Iran for stonings, amputations, (Reuters) - The United Nations rebuked Iran on Wednesday for worsening human rights under the new government of President Mohammad Khatami, including executions by stoning and amputations. The indictment came in a report drawn up for the world's supreme human rights body, meeting in Geneva, by the U.N. special human rights investigator for Iran, Maurice Copithorne... full text
ECONOMY
* Malaysia firm shrugs off US sanction threat, (Reuters) - Malaysia's state oil company said on Wednesday it would go ahead with a planned $2 billion gas project in Iran with French and Russian partners despite the threat of U.S. sanctions. ``We will continue with the plans we have made, so far as Iran is concerned,'' Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) president Mohamed Hassan Marican told a news conference in Kuala Lumpur... 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
* Kambiz Derambakhsh of Iran is the winner of the Grand Prize in the 19th Yomiuri International Cartoon Contest, becoming the first foreign winner of the prize in three years... full text... winning cartoon... Forwarded by Yari Ostovany <yari@bigbook.com>
* 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
Planet Elahian
On the presentation by a hitech guru
By Nersi Ramazan-Nia
Faz restaurant's Silicon Valley Ballroom was packed and overflowing with an eager audience of mostly young, intensely curious technology devotees. The combination and sheer magnitude of alertness, intellegence and ambition at this gathering was impressive. It is in such gatherings that Kamran Elahian (CEO, chairman, co-founder of PlanetWeb) truly shines. Entreprennuer par excellence, Mr. Elahian walked his rapt audience through the spectacualr peaks of his career humorously, and without his smile departing even for a second... go to feature
NOSTALGIA
SPORTS
* Sports & Politics: A commentary from Tamashagaran magazine... full text
* Soccer-World Cup: Iran coach will pick squad in May, (Reuters) - Iran's coach Tomislav Ivic said on Tuesday he would decide which players to send to the World Cup a month before the finals start in France in June. Ivic said Iran would prepare with a friendly this month against Kuwait followed by a four-nation tournament in Tehran and a 20-day training camp in southwestern Iran, Iranian television said... full text
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SATIRE
* Policy of silence, a satirical piece by Ebrahim Navavi on Karbaschi's arrest, (Jame'eh)... full text in Persian... full text in English
1376/3/2
* Karbaschi's arrest and its relation to Khatami's election ... 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
Modern poetry
Popped in your web site to check on the poets: Parvin Etesami and Nima Yushij. Can't seem to find enough about them anywhere on the net, and most books at the library are in Farsi. As far as Iranian literature goes, looks like the Sufi poets rein supreme and modern poetry is still struggling to be noticed! *sigh* Mariam Ispahani <mariam@skypoint.com>
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.
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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
Home at last
* Former prisoners of war return from Iraq... full image
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MUSIC
* Pooran, "Emrooz o Fardaa"
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QUOTE UNQUOTE
No exception?
All men are equal before the law ... Serving the government is no reason
to condone violations.We should accept that the law should treat us all
equally and Karbaschi is no exception.
Mohammad Reza Bahonar
Conservative Majlis deputy
"Tehran
mayor experiences harsh conditions at infamous Evin prison"
AFP
April 7, 1998
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