THE IRANIAN
TIMES
Friday, March 27, 1998
Farvardin 7, 1377
No. 444
Abu Saeed
Headlines
* Book: The Shah & The Bomb
* Other Iranians of the Year
* Iran-U.S.: Symposium in Los Angeles
* Feature: Iranian moderate sees upturn
* The Web: Professors of Iranian Heritage
* Photo: Olala... beh salamati!
Index
| * Iranian
of the Year: Others * Iran-U.S.: Symposium * Features: Moderates * News: Norway/Rushdie * Economy: Norway joins OPEC * Dollar: Unchanged * Human Rights: German court * The press: Defending journalists * Sports: Predictions * Arts: Rich 'Cherry' * The Web: Professors * Academic: Sufism lecture |
IRANIAN OF THE YEAR
Other Iranians of the Year... The voters, a tour guide, a puppet and a determined young woman.
THE WEB
* The Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage: One of the best academic sites I've seen... http://perspolis.usc.edu/apsih/
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IRAN-U.S.
* Symposium on Iran: Has the Time Come to Resume the Dialogue? Los Angeles, April 2, 1997. Guests of Honor and main speakers: Ambassador S.M. Hadi Nejad Hosseinian (Iranian Representative to the United Nations), Ambassador Roscoe S. Suddarth (President of Middle East Institute), Amassador L. Bruce Laingen (principal hostage U.S. embassy siege in Tehran), Ambassador Mohammad J. Mahallati (Former Iranian Ambassador to the U.N.)... click for details
* Mandela scolds Clinton over Iran, (Reuters) - South African President Nelson Mandela scolded President Clinton Friday for isolating Cuba, Libya and Iran then took his arm in friendship and walked him through the prison where he spent 18 years. Mandela let simmering differences over trade and foreign policy with the United States bubble into the open during a joint news conference with Clinton in the garden of his Cape Town office after talks lasting an hour and 45 minutes, one hour longer than planned... full text
* U.S. moves cautiously toward Iran, (AP) - While there is no official U.S.-Iranian dialogue, the first baby steps toward that goal are being taken. State Department spokesman James P. Rubin summarized the state of U.S.-Iranian relations Thursday in comments notably devoid of the traditional emphasis on the areas of disagreement. These include U.S. allegations of Iranian support for terrorism, development of weapons of mass destruction and efforts to undermine the Middle East peace process... full text
FEATURES
* Iranian moderate sees upturn in ties with US, change at home, (AFP) - In an informal interview highlighting change in Iran, the country's new-style culture minister Ataollah Mohajerani said relations with the United States were on the up and up though problems remained. Sporting western garb in a beige sweater and suit, Mohajerani told a group of foreign reporters that Tehran had been cheered by recent signs of a thaw in Washington's freeze on Iran, but awaited new action from its former arch-enemy... full text
NEWS
* Norway pledges raise pressure on Iran over Rushdie, (Reuters) - Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik pledged to step up pressure on Iran to lift a nine-year-old death edict on Salman Rushdie after talks with the British author on Friday. Bondevik said the Iranian government should lift the nine-year-old fatwa death order on Rushdie if it wanted warmer ties with western nations... full text
ECONOMY
* Oil moves sideways as Norway joins cut pact, (Reuters) - World oil prices were little changed on Friday ahead of an OPEC meeting called to ratify a deal to cut oil supply to glutted markets. World benchmark Brent blend crude closed four cents weaker at $15.40 a barrel, having peaked earlier in the day at $15.60. The wide ranging deal for 16 countries to cut oil output was given a welcome boost on Friday when Norway, the world's second largest exporter, clinched a parliamentary majority for an output cut after failing to win enough support on Thursday... full text
* World energy sanctions (EIA) - The following provides information on the current state of energy sanctions either in existence or pending against the following major oil-producing countries. (Note: The United States has imposed sanctions against other countries, including Burma, Cuba, North Korea, and Yugoslavia. The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control maintains a complete list)... full text
DOLLAR RATE
Unchanged at 502
* To send money to Iran, the rate is 502-510 tomans per dollar, depending on how much you wish to send.
* To send money out of Iran, the rate is 514 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
HUMAN RIGHTS
* German court links Iran to more attacks, (Reuters) - Tehran has been linked to a series of killings of Iranian dissidents on foreign soil, according to a full version of a Berlin court verdict delivered last year and made available to journalists on Friday. The court convicted three Lebanese and an Iranian last April for the 1992 killing of four Iranian Kurdish exiles in Berlin and concluded that Iran's political leaders had ordered their deaths... full text
THE PRESS
* Survey: 26 journalists killed in 97, (AP) - Twenty-six journalists were killed in 1997, most of them victims of political assassination, and at least 129 were being held in 24 countries at year's end, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. CPJ said that in addition to the 26 journalists murdered in 14 countries last year, it is investigating 10 other journalists' deaths in which a link to the victims' work is suspected. Seven of the journalists were killed in India, four in Colombia, three in Mexico, two in Cambodia and one each in Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, the Philippines, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Ukraine... full text
ARTS
* Rich 'Cherry' reflects on suicide and dignity in Iran, (Los Angeles Times) - Abbas Kiarostami's soaring parable, "A Taste of Cherry," thrusts us inside a Range Rover being driven by a middle-aged man (Homayoun Ershadi) in congested central Tehran. Throngs of day laborers try to attract his attention, but he keeps going. Clearly he's looking for something or someone as he gradually makes his way to the mountains that give the city its dramatic backdrop. By the time he addresses a big, ruggedly handsome man who yells, "Clear out or I'll smash your face in," you start wondering whether Ershadi's Mr. Badii, who has the intense, somber demeanor of Jeremy Irons, is, in fact, cruising, a singularly risky activity in such a homophobic culture... full text
* On display at the Freer Gallery, Washington, DC: "The Seven Thrones: A Princely Manuscript From Iran," through March 29; Open daily 10 to 5:30. Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW. 202/357-2700 (TDD: 202/357-1729).
* 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
The Shah & The Bomb
Not now, maybe later
From: Barnameh-ye enerji-ye atomi-ye iran, talash-ha va tanesh-haa (Foundation for Iranian Studies, 1997), a history of Iran's Atomic Energy Program as told by Akbar Etemad, the first head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, edited by Gholam Reza Afkhami... full text
NOSTALGIA
SPORTS
* Road to victory: Some interesting predictions about the outcome of World Cup '98! By Bruce Bahmani... full text
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SATIRE
Cutting edge cooking
* Kaleh-pacheh recipe: A sheep's head, some salt and peper, and a shiny new Gillette blade ... 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.
* 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.
QUESTION
Iran during World War II
I am an American documentary film maker. For the past six years we have been collecting stories and film about the "Bridge to Victory" supply route that crossed Iran from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian during WWII. We have lots of interviews and material from the military perspective but need more about how the "occupation" of Iran affected the people (in the vein of "Savashun" by Daneshavar). Anyone with ideas is welcome to contact me at: INTERNECT@msn.com or PO Box 404, Rockville, MD, 20848-0404, USA. Thanks.
Rob Burgener
Producer/Director
LETTERS
"Jerk of the Year"
How about who we should NOT be considering for the man of the year? My vote and three other Iranian friends of mine for the Jerk of the Year award goes to Ascend CEO Mory Ejabat ["Iranian Businessman of the Year"].
Let me explain: My freinds and I are the former employees of the Cascade Communications which was bought out by Ascend Communications. During the transaction we were all laid-off by Ascend. We were the laughing stock of the company to a point that the director of the engineering at Cascade told us that Mory does not want any Iranians working with him.
Our lives have not been the same since our departure for Cascade. Two of my Iranian friends still have not found a suitable job.
So I am asking you how can an Iranian be voted for the man of the year award when he ruined other Iranians' lives? Somehow I wish he could read this letter and relizes what he has done to us. Jalil Farhouman <jayf@nh.aspectdv.com>
LOST & FOUND
Mehdi Falahati
I am looking for my cousin, Mehdi Falahati (M. Peyvan). He is chairman of Arash magazine. Can U help me to find him? Mohammad K. Ghanbari, <Ghanbari@ibb.ut.ac.ir>
BOOKSTORE
Book of the week
Borrowed
Ware : Medieval Persian Epigrams
Dick Davis / Hardcover / Published 1997
See feature in THE IRANIAN. Click
here
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ACADEMIC
* Davis on Sufism and Sufi poetry: The Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University Presents: Lecture by Professor Dick Davis, professor of Judaic and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University, titled "SUFISM AND SUFI POETRY". Date/time: Thursday, April 2, 1998 at 8:00 pm. Address: The Woodrow WIlson School, Bowl 5.
* Symposium on Iran, in Houston: The James III Baker Institute of Rice University, Houston, Texas, is organizing a symposium on Iran, April 2, 1998. The speakers include Congressman Lee Hamilton, Hooshang Amirahmadi of Rutgers University, and Bruce Ridel, Special Advisor to President Clinton.
ENTERTAINMENT
Shahrzad dances in Palo Alto
Shahrzad Dance Company in San Francisco's Bay Area presents: Noruz 1377 Dance Concert! Dances primarily from Iran, with a surprise dance from Darvag Theater Group! Where? Albany High School. When? Saturday March 28 at 8:00 PM Sharp! (Doors open at 7:30). Tickets? $15 Adult/$10 kids and students. Reservations? (510) 724-2224 Numbered seating so reserve tickets early!
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Olala... beh salamati!
* A "Persian" drink to go with your Persian cat and carpet... full image
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MUSIC
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QUOTE UNQUOTE
Great appreciation
[The Iranian of the Year is Kioomars Ghaffari whom] as my guide on three recent trips to Iran took a Westerner who knew nothing about Iran and taught me a great appreciation for the country and a love for its people. Mr.Ghaffari took me into his home and along with his family and friends made me truly get a feel for life in Iran as it really is today.
Stuart Redding
"Other
Iranians of the Year, 1997"
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