THE IRANIAN
TIMES
Tuesday, March 10, 1998
Esfand 19, 1376
No. 430
Sa'di
Headlines
* U.S. report discourages "random, ad hoc"
sanctions
* Najafabad ends protest over Montazeri
* More responses to Feinstein & Kyle
* Sports: Perseplis or Piroozi
* Music/video store online
* Iranian films on International Channel
* Help the Louvre: Iranian object?
* Asiasoft: Farsi for Windows 95
Index
| * Students:
Pro/anti moderates * Khalkhali: BBC interview * Features: Montazeri warning * Sanctions: State dept. report * News: Mobile phone bill * Sports: Persepolis? * Economy: Russian denial * Dollar: Unchanged * Women: Official at Columbia * Human rights: Probe demanded * The press: Ganji released * Film: International Channel |
SOFTWARE
* Asiasoft: Farsi for Windows 95
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THE WEB
* Music/video store online: Iranpage has set up a shopping mall for direct sales of Iranian CDs, cassettes and videos... click here
* Bert is evil: We have reason to believe that Bert of Sesame Street is evil and you should keep your children away from him. Here in these pages are collected incriminating images and documents that prove that Bert is not the lovable harmless geek he so successfully makes us think he is. Go to http://fractalcow.com/bert/bert.htm
Thanks to Payman Arabshahi <payman@arash.neda.com>
STUDENTS
* Pro-Khatami student group spearheads campaign for openness, (AFP) - The largest student group in Iran vowed on Sunday to press for political openness in the Islamic republic in line with President Mohammad Khatami's vision of a law-abiding "civil society." Daftar-e-Tahkim-e-Vahdat (Strenghtening Solidarity Office) (EDS: correct) is a left-leaning Islamic movement which supports the 1979 Islamic revolution, but is opposed to the powerful conservative faction of the Islamic regime, calling it "monopolist and undemocratic." ... full text
* Conservative Iranian students want moderate minister impeached, (AFP) - Some 2,000 students supporting the conservative clergy staged a demonstration on Monday demanding that parliament impeach moderate Interior Minister Abdollah Nuri. The minister has angered conservatives by allowing a rival leftist student group to hold a protest rally last week against restrictive electoral laws and by backing the moderate mayor of Tehran, Gholam-Hossein Karbashchi, bete noir of the right-wingers... full text
* Rafsanjani still a potent political player, (Reuters) - More than six months after stepping down as Iran's president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remains a potent political force, analysts say. Now head of a powerful advisory council, he has developed a close working relationship with Iran's new moderate president, Mohammad Khatami... full text
KHALKHALI
* BBC interview with former Islamic judge Sadeq Khalkhali. He denies/confirms the worst, (BBC/NImrooz) ... full text image in Persian
FEATURES
* Najafabad ends protest over mistreatment of Montazeri, (AFP) - Shopkeepers in a central Iranian town have ended a strike to protest at the house arrest of a senior dissident cleric, the official IRNA news agency reported Monday. IRNA said shops in Najaf-Abad reopened on Sunday and the town "has regained its normalcy." Owners had closed their shops on Saturday to protest at "disrespect" to Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, a disgraced cleric living under house arrest in the holy city of Qom, also in central Iran... full text
* Montazeri's son warns of consequences if ayatollah's house arrest does not end, (French International Radio / Nimrooz) ... full text image in Persian
SANCTIONS
State Department report discourages "random, ad hoc" sanctions
USA*ENGAGE today praised the report issued by the Sanctions Working Group to the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. The report, U.S. Economic Sanctions: A Strategic Framework, stresses the importance for the United States to adopt a systematic approach when considering the use of future economic sanctions -- instead of relying on the "random and ad hoc" decision-making process that is prevalent today... full text
NEWS
* Iranian MPs unable to pay cellular phone bills, (AFP) - Many deputies in the Iranian parliament cannot afford to pay rising cellular telephone bills and at least two of them had their phones disconnected for non-payment, a newspaper reported Monday. One MP, who was not identified, told Arzeshha weekly that the "problem is affecting the majority of deputies, including myself." ... full text
* Over 71 pc of pollutants in Tehran come from cars, (IRNA) - In 1994, over 71 per cent of air pollutants in tehran were caused by cars, and about 29 per cent of them by household heating systems and industrial fuel consumption, according to managing director of Air Quality Control Company of Iran Paymaneh Hastehie ... full text
ECONOMY
* Russian premier denies Iran sale, (AP) - Trying to soothe a major worry of the United States, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin insisted today that Russia is sticking to its promise not to transfer nuclear weapons technology to Iran. ``We are true to our commitments and we shall never depart from them,'' Chernomyrdin said. ``We have not transferred and will not transfer anything to Iran.''... full text
* Tehran Stock Exchange daily index
DOLLAR RATE
Unchanged
* To send money to Iran, the rate is 503-510 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
NORUZ
* Call for children's Noruz art
In conjunction with the Persian Center's Noruz celebration in California's Bay Area, there will be a children's art exhibition. This is a wonderful opportunity for children to share their art work about Noruz. Children up to the age of 12 may submit works that relate to the theme: WHAT DOES NORUZ MEAN TO ME? First 25 submissions will be displayed at the Celebration in Palo Alto on Friday, March 20, 1998. PLEASE CONTACT HOMA HANJANI FOR MORE INFORMATION: 415-861-5714 OR EMAIL movissi@mfa.org
* Send us news/annoucements about Noruz events in your community and we will post there here. Email to Times@iranian.com
WOMEN
* Iranian official: Iran keen to ensure equal women-men opportunities, (IRNA) - Envoy of iran to the united nations for a u.n. assebmly on the status of women mrs. zahra shojaie said at columbia university monday that president khatami's administration is determined to ensure iranian women equal opportunity on the economic, social, cultural, political and administrative scenes... full text
HUMAN RIGHTS
* Iranian MPs demand probe into allegation of torture by judiciary police, (AFP) - More than 150 deputies in the Iranian parliament have called for an investigation into allegations that police tortured Tehran city officials during their detention, a newspaper reported Monday. Arzeshha (Values) weekly said 152 MPs of the 270-member parliament had sent a letter to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei demanding the probe to be launched at the highest level... full text
THE PRESS
* Ganji released from prison: paper, (AFP) - A left-leaning Iranian journalist arrested three months ago for allegedly criticizing the government has been released, a newspaper reported Saturday. Akbar Ganji, director of literary monthly Rah-e-No (New Way), left the prison on Thursday after three months in temporary detention, Jamee newspaper said. A revolutionary court this week sentenced Ganji to one year in jail on charges of "disturbing and trying to harm the public opinion," but suspended nine months of the sentence and put him on probation for five years... full text
* Guidance minister "insults" Tehran Times editor, (Jomhuri Eslami)... full text in Persian... Get Persian fonts from Hamshahri or Payvand. ... full text
THE IRANIAN
More responses to Feinstein & Kyle
Deidre Paknad : Students
not pawn in a chess game
Nersi Ramazan-nia: Let
ideas do the sanitizing
Amir-Mosaddegh Katouzian: False
assumptions
Termeh Rassi: Stick
to Arizona, Senator Kyl
Bay Area students: Law
and logic must prevail
SPORTS
* Perseplis or Piroozi? An opinion piece from Tamashagaran soccer magazine. (in Persian) ... full text
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FILM
* Iranian films on International Channel: Four Iranian films are being shown on the International Channel on U.S. cable networks, starting March 1st. The movies are: Mehrjui's Sara (March 1st) Alvand's Once and for All Forouzesh's The Jar and Makhmalbaf's The Actor All have English subtitles. Go to: http://www.nima3.com/IranMedia/Norooz.htm Thanks to Pedram Missaghi <pmissagh@sdcc13.ucsd.edu>
* 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).
* "Gabbeh", "A Taste of Cherry" in Michigan: Wed. March 11th, Gabbeh, 7:00pm; Mon. April 6th, A taste of cherry, 7:00pm; at the Michigan Theater: 603 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI.
* "Taste of Cherry" U.S. screen schedules from the official Zeitgeist Film site... click here...Thanks to Payman Arabshahi <payman@fermi.jpl.nasa.gov>
* "Taste of Cherry" in Victoria: WED & THURS, MARCH 4 & 5 (7:15 & 9:10) Cinecenta, UVic. With discounts for the club & community members. UVic Persian Club : <wr855@victoria.tc.ca> : 250-472-8699
* Iranian film festival organized by Stanford University's Persian Students Association will run through mid-March... click here for details
SATIRE
* The Mobile Class
You have the rich, the poor and now mobile phone class (in Persian)... click here
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LETTERS
* Don't like new format
I don't like the new format of The Iranian Times. In the past you would give a short summary of each news item, now you don't. Many of us may not have time to go to the web site to take a look at the complete news. I was going to subscribe, but with this new format, I don't think I will. Muhammad Sahimi, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California, <moe@iran.usc.edu>
LOST & FOUND
Tehran Community School
I graduated form the Tehran Community School in the revolution interrupted year of 1978. I have since lost touch with most of my old friends and school mates. If anyone knows of a CHS alumni or you happen to be one, please let me know. Thanks, Amin Mirabedini <AJMin@aol.com>
BOOKSTORE
Iran
As Imagined Nation : The Construction of National Identity
Mostafa Vaziri / Hardcover / Published 1993
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EVENTS
* Central Asia and the Caucasus: Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) in Tehran will hold the sixth annual seminar on Central Asia and the Caucasus on April 27- 28, 1998. The theme of this year's seminar is "Central Asia and the Caucasus: The Role of Regional Powers in Conflict Resolution and Economic Development." In this seminar, a variety of related subjects including the important issue of the Caspian Sea basin with regards to viewpoints of Iran, Russia, China, and Turkey should be discussed and explored. The Purpose of this seminar is to deepen understanding and to foster an exchange of views among specialists and scholars who are mainly interested in the appraisal of events in the region. It should be added that IPIS would arrange local hospitality for e would be any questions, please contact by fax no.: 0098-21 2710964 or by email: ipis@www.dci.co.ir
* Khuzestani Noruz in LA: This year's Khuzestani Noruz party will be on March 14 at the LAX Marriott Hotel. For more information contact Hassan Alesafar <NAKHLAK@aol.com>
* Farhad's last concert: Farhad, the legendary singer, is currently in the U.S. and will perform his last U.S. concert on Sunday, March 8, 1998 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Farhad will return to Iran after this concert. This is the last chance his fans will have tio see him in their lifetime. For information and reservation those interested can contact: 310-704-5700.
* Iranian film festival organized by Stanford University's Persian Students Association will run through mid-March... click here for details
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Iranian?
* The Louvre is not sure if this object is Iranian. What do you think?... full image
Got any interesting photos?
Send them to Times@iranian.com
MUSIC
Fereydoun Farrokhzad: "Ey Sharqi-ye Ghamgin"(Get RealAudio)
Greatest pop CDs ON SALE!
QUOTE UNQUOTE
Stick to Arizona
Very kind of the senator [Kyl of Arizona] to receive email but refuse to read or respond to it. In that case I would urge the senator to stay away from commenting on international issues that concern all U.S. citizens and stick to Arizona.
Termeh Rassi
Editor, Second Generation magazine
Response
to email from Senator Kyl's office regarding Iranian students
March, 10, 1998
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