THE IRANIAN
TIMES
Friday, Jan 16, 1998
Dey 26, 1376
No. 394
Hafez
* THE IRANIAN: Hot
implications / A costly address
* IRAN-U.S.: Khamenei
rejects talks, ties with U.S.
* NEWS: U.S., Russia still
at odds over Iran missiles
* LOVE: An affair of state:
Rubin & Amanpour
* HUMAN RIGHTS: Helping
Peyman
* THE WEB: Jokestan: New
stuff
* SPORTS: World Cup
tickets / video
* LETTER: Drop dead
/ Hope / Not
Iranian / Thanks for Kerman
* LOST & FOUND:
Hadaf high school
* BOOKSTORE: The United
States and Iran : In the Shadow of Musaddiq
* PHOTO OF THE DAY:
Little tour guides
* EVENTS: Lecture on
Ferdosi, in Washington
* MUSIC: Ebi does Googoosh,
"Hamsafar"
* QUOTE UNQUOTE: Electrically-heated
head scarves
THE IRANIAN
Hot implications of U.S.-Iran relations
By
Ramin Tabib
So we all watched the interview of sepah-saalaar Khatami, and we are all completely confused as to what on god's earth will happen now. Are we talking about nude Americans on the beaches of Bandar Abbas and Khezer Shahr? How about profile of Iranian Bazaars on the Travel Channel? Will there be a big Coke bottle in Meydoon-e Ferdowsi and a giant electronic screen right in the middle of Meydoon-e Shoosh, like the one in New York's Times Square?... go to article
A costly address
By
Farhad Sepahbodi
In his recent address to the American people, President Khatami has sort of obliquely expressed regrets for the revolutionaries grabbing American diplomats. In doing so he has opened a Pandora box. Not to be outdone by yet another cunning Iranian, the U.S. State Department is said to be in the process of drafting a formal repentance for helping overthrow the nationalist government of Dr. Mossadegh back in 1953. [Also] the government of tiny Macedonia is currently preparing a draft- resolution apologizing to the noble people of Iran for Alexander the Great's depradations during his invasion circa 300 B.C... go to artilce
IRAN-U.S.
* Khamenei rejects talks, ties with U.S., (Reuters) - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Friday rejected any ties or talks with the United States, saying this would be harmful to Iran's independence and to Islamic movements around the world. But in his first public comments on a watershed television address to Americans by President Mohammad Khatami last week, Khamenei said Iran had no problems with the American people and expressed overall support for the relatively moderate president... full text.. also see:IRNA news in Persian
* Iran's intelligence minister: Iranian and American people can have friendly ties, (IRNA, in Persian) - He also says "we're all brothers" and all Iranian people are not at war with any other people, "not even the Jewish people."... full text
* On Iran, the next step is ours, (Baltimore Sun) - If an American leader had done what Iranian President Mohammad Khatami did a week ago, it would have been hailed as a profile in courage. In Iran's wild and woolly internal politics, there is something heroic about going before the world on Cable News Network and praising the history and culture of the United States, called the "Great Satan" by the leader of his country's 1971 anti-American revolution (and his mentor), the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... full text
* Troubles with Iran, (Savannah Morning News, Georgia) - Iranian mobs chanting anti-American slogans, thrusting their fists in anger. Helicopters in the lonely desert, bodies crumpled in the sand. Foremost is the gut-wrenching image of Americans, bound and blindfolded with strips of white cloth, paraded before hate-filled crowds.For William Daugherty, a political science professor at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, those images were reality. The former CIA operative was one of the 52 hostages held captive in Iran for 444 days, 425 of those days in solitary confinement... full text
* Britain chides US for its hard line on Iran and Iraq, (The Independent, London) - The Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, moved Britain's foreign policy several steps away from the United States yesterday, expressly differentiating Britain from the US in two key policy areas: Iraq and Iran. Mr Cook was making a flying - and heavily chaperoned - visit to Washington to launch Britain's presidency of the European Union. But his remarks were clearly intended also to burnish Britain's credentials among its European partners... full text
* Sharp increase in Americans wanting to travel to Iran, (IRNA, in Persian) - Quoting today's Washington Post. No details... full text
* Jomhouri Eslami editorial: "No talks, no relations [with the U.S.]" (In Persian)
THE IRANIAN Iran News
NEWS
* U.S., Russia still at odds over Iran missiles, (Reuters) - The United States and Russia, after new talks, still have not reached an agreement that would end Moscow's cooperation with Iran's ballistic missile program and avoid U.S. sanctions, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. ``We have some progress but a lot more hard work will be needed before we can say that the problem is on the way to being solved,'' said Ambassador Stephen Sestanovich, the U.S. pointman on Russia and other ex-Soviet states... full story
* Iranian, French foreign ministers express concern over killings in Algeria, (IRNA, in Persian)
THE IRANIAN Iran News
LOVE
An affair of state: Rubin & Amanpour, (Washington Post) - I wish you had any idea of what it's like to have a total stranger walk into your office and talk about something like this," says Jamie Rubin, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs. "I'm very uncomfortable talking about my personal life," says Christiane Amanpour, the chief international correspondent for CNN and a regular on CBS's "60 Minutes." "I've always shied away from doing that and for good reason. I don't buy into the celebrity culture. I don't consider myself a celebrity."
Amanpour, 40, is one of the planet's most famous women known from here to Sarajevo for her courageous dispatches from the world's worst hellholes, her groundbreaking interviews with heads of state and her uncompromising reporting on the carnage in Bosnia. Rubin, 37, is one of America's most influential men the chief spokesman for, and a key figure in, the U.S. foreign policy establishment, and a confidant of the secretary of state.... full story
HUMAN RIGHTS
Helping Peyman
From Adghar Abdi <asghar@btinternet.com>
On Wednesday 14/1/98, Dr Habibullah Peyman, a liberal politician was tried in a court in Tehran. He was fined 150,000 tomans because of publishing "Gozideh-eye-Akhbar" monthly and was banned from publishing it . The magazine was produced in 40 pages A5 size at the price of 200 tomans per issue. The price could only cover the cost of reproducing the magazine by photocopying. The last issue which I have got here is Issue 48, Mehr 1376. It means that Dr Peyman was allowed to publish his ideas before Khatami's era, but not any longer.
Dr Peyman's newsletter was the only publication in Iran which dared to publish two of the Iranian Human Rights Working Group's statements against the death penalty. To help him to pay the fine so far £90 plus $50 have been collected. Iranians abroad are invited to contribute to this campaign.The whole amount of the fine is about £200. The conributors so far:
Dr Mansur Farhang, USA, $25
Dr Kourosh Parsa, USA, $25
Dr Bartlett, UK £20
Dr Asghar Abdi, UK, £20
Dr Fatimeh R., UK £10
Ms Saba, UK, £10
Mr Farrokh Negahdar, UK, £10
Mrs Roya Kashefi, UK, £10
Dr. Hossein Lajvardi, Paris, £10
Contact Asghar Abdi PhD, MD
The editor of Avay-e-DelhA dar Ghorbat (The Cry of the Heart in Exile)
Phone and fax: 00441214596625
Email: <asghar@btinternet.com>
THE WEB
Jokestan: New stuff
Thanks to you, Jokestan is growing every day. There are two new categories added to Jokestan.
1. Discussion Ba'za'r - An area which will allow Jokestan viewers to discuss any controversial topics with the author of Jokestan, or other Iranians around the globe. You can add new discussion topics or just read the different discussion groups and join in the discussion if you have something to say.
2. Obeid e Za'ka'ni - A section devoted to Obeid e Za'ka'ni jokes. These jokes date back to the time of Ha'fez.
Also, We have added a "News Flash" on our front page so that it can keep us all in tune with some of today's Iranian News. We hope that you and other Iranians can enjoy these new additions. Jokestan is the only site on the Internet that strives to bring the Iranians around the world together with laughter and the joy of jokes. Help us help you. Come to Jokestan and laugh a little.
SPORTS
* How to purchase World Cup tickets in Canada - From: Mehrdad Masoudi (Canadian Soccer Association): Dear friends, here is the complete World Cup ticket information with the actual prices and so on ... Please note that the deadline to place your order is January 12... Full details
"Dream Team" IRAN -- World Cup tickets now available!
Sportestan Publishing (USA)
ish@sportestan.com
Tel: 650-473-9792
LETTERS
Drop dead
Statistics show that a lot of people commit suicide around Christmas time. While reading Hamid Taghavi's "Ho ho ho no more" I was hoping for the author to announce he is going to go for it! Hooshang Jafa <hjafa@infosvcs.tmh.tmc.edu>
Hope
I am a student at the University of Oklahoma. I lived in Iran till the age of 8 and it will forever be a part of my identity. In an effort to keep in touch with Iranian culture, and to stay in touch with that part of me, I decided to take a look at The Iranian. Ben Bagheri's pictures of Iranians and the demonstration of how in the midst of everything people still LIVE were touching. Human nature and the struggle to find happiness feed the hope that dwells in the Iranian heart. This hope, in turn, bring about happiness. As long as this cycle continues, the true nature and identity of Iran will remain strong, always, in Iranian hearts. I enjoyed viewing the pictures, merci! Bahareh Ebadifar <springjasmine@ou.edu>
Not Iranian
[In response to "Iranaian. American too"] Ms. Laura, you are not Iranian. You are an American with Iranian heritage. An Iranian is somebody whose basic characteristics at least were formed in Iran. I don't think anybody has the right to exclude anybody else from a heritage; but there is a difference between people who live in a country good or bad, day in day out and contribute to its life, and those who grab their money at the first opportunity and set up shop somewhere else and whose only contact with the old country is through, say Iranian pop music produced in LA or some kind of touristy interest in the poor suckers still stuck in hell. George Chow <gchow@mercury.bc.ca>
Thanks for Kerman
I was so pleased to read and view the articles and pictures on Kerman and on the painter Scott Hesse on your web site. I've only recently come to tap into The Iranian, and find it quite comprehensive and well-rounded in its coverage of the wide-ranging topics. Keep up the great work you're doing. Thanks again. <bkermane@earthlink.net>
LOST & FOUND
Hadaf high school
Beh hamehye "Batchehhaye" Dabirestanhaye Hadaf
Dustane aziz salam, Ajib ast keh batchehaye Alborz , Kharazmi, etc. "Home Page" darand wa ma "Batchehhaye" Hadaf "hanuz andar khame yek koutcheh im" ... Rasti akhiran man Iran budam,... kheyli khoshhal shodam keh didam aghaye BIRASHK dobareh sazmane Hadaf ra berah andakhteh va yey Dabestan va do Dabirestan eftetah kardeh. Khoda omrash bedahad keh dar 94 salehgi hanuz inchenin fa´aliyat mikonad... khodash ra tawanestam dar "Farhangestane zaban wa adabe Farsi" bebinam .
Dar rabeteh bashim...
Email: <fkha2@netcologne.de>
Tel.: 0049-2233-16088
Hamehtan salamat wa sarboland bashid
F.Khiabani-A. Cologne/Germany
BOOKSTORE
The
United States and Iran : In the Shadow of Musaddiq
James F. Goode / Hardcover / Published 1997
This book is available through Amazon.com, the world's largest online bookstore. THE IRANIAN is an associate of Amazon.com. Click on the titles for more information.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Little guides
Boys guiding tourists to a cave near the village Roud Afshar ... full image
Got any interesting photos?
Send them to jj@iranian.com
EVENTS
Lecture on Ferdosi, in Washington
The Iranian-American Cultural Association (IACA) in Washington D.C. cordially invites you to a lecture on Ferdosi's Shahnameh followed by a reception. Dr. Matinee, the renowned professor of Persian Language and Literature, the former director of Ferdosi University of Mashhad, and the current chief editor of Iran Shenasi will present a talk on Ferdosi's epic work Shahnameh. Following the lecture there will be a reception featuring tea, coffee, pastries and an opportunity to share ideas with other guests. The lecture will be given in Farsi. Date: Saturday, January 24, 1998 Time: 3:00-5:00 pm Place: The George Washington University, Marvin Center The University Club, 3rd Floor, Morris Rm 800 21st St, NW Washington, DC 20052 Admission: members $5 non-members $10.
Source: Taraneh Amin <TAmin@bdm.com>
MUSIC
Ebi does Googoosh, "Hamsafar" (RealAudio)
Greatest pop CDs ON SALE!
QUOTE UNQUOTE
Electrically-heated head scarves
One thing that Iran needs is informercials: 30-minute programs, day or night, that sell everything from wrinkle creams to diet drugs to ab-crunchers and even food processors. Being in Iran, one can add a few items such as digital backgammons, electrically-heated head scarves and even the latest in removable, silicon-enhanced beards.
Ramin Tabib
"Hot
implications of U.S.- Iran relations"
The Iranian
Jan 16, 1998
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