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From: phd21@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A. Jaber)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Iraq combats Iranian sorties, violates peace treaty
Date: 9 Apr 92 10:32:54 GMT
Reply-To: phd21@seq1.kl.ac.uk (A. Jaber)
Organization: University of Keele, England

>From: arash@sunee.waterloo.edu (Arash Jahangir)
>Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
>
>beleivable.  The more concentrated you are the easier it will be to get rid
>of you.  Iraqis with all their resources and forien aid and airplanes and 
>missiles and whatever else did not mannage to overthrow the regime, just who
>do you think MKO are, supermen?  It is time (actually it has been quite some-
>time) for the regime's opponents to realize that a change in Iran will not be
>based, lead, or otherwise come to effect by external factors.  In the end it
>will have to be the common people of Iran who will have to overthrow or somehow
>change the essence of this regime.  The only thing that this regime is afraid 
>of is unorgonized massive movement of the public, not MKO or anybody else who
>is shouting from the outside (including myself :-)  Mojahedin have done far too
>much dammage.  Their lack of competence not only has sent thousands of their
>followers to their deathbeads, they have strengthen the regime by their 
"

	You are absolutely right, but I am afraid the Khomeini Gang that
	runs Iran from Qum is not going to have any mercy on the Iranian
	people. The Khomeinist have learned a good lesson from their
	ally the Buthcer of Hama Hafez-Al-Assad of Syria how to wipe out
	a whole city like what he did in Hama where he killed 40,000
	people to stop the revolution toppling him. I could visualize 
	this happening in Iran when the Iranian people had enough of
	this mess to see the Fanatic gangs wiping out whole cities.

	The Khomeinist gangs are out for a fight thinking that Iraq 
	is weakened, they started this business of sabotage just after
	the Gulf War Iraq-USA, by sending 80,000 Iranians and some 
	Iraqis from the Criminal Hakeem Gangs into Basra to help the 
	USA to cover up the crimes committed in the attack on the Iraqi 
	people. The Khomeinists never learned from 8-year war. 

	If you compare Iraq-92 with Iraq-80 you will find the present
	Iraq much stronger than that of 1980 regardless of the losses in
	the war with the USA.

	If the Khomeini Gang is not supporting the Criminal Hakeem
	who is now based in Both Riyadh and Tehran Iraq will never 
	host Mujahidee Khalq. It is up to the Iranian people to choose
	one more Million or peace.



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With peace
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: aref@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Modda'iyeh har hAzer va Vakileh har ghAyeb)
Subject: Rapping with AghA Seyyed was Re: Reply to  Bahaies  gang
Organization: Majlesseh ShorAyeh SCI
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:40:19 GMT


In article <1992Apr10.035725.21878@wuecl.wustl.edu> 
seyyed@wuee1.wustl.edu (Seyyed Mahdavian) writes:

>When Farah Pahlavi (former Queen of Iran) who had not a
>hejab ordinarily, went to Mashhad, she wore the hejab. That hejab is enough.

I think you are being extremely short sighted here. That hejab that she
wore is *not* enough. Actually, that was just for PR purposes and maybe
respect for EmAm RezA. It was just a display. How can that be enough?

How many people went to Mash-had or Ghom, had their
hejab on while there, and came back and did the same kind of garbage  
as they used to do before? Just because somebody wears a hejab does not mean
they have one inside their hearts. I define hejAb as your internal values
and beliefs, and frankly I think it applies equally to men and women.

I remember during the early months of revolution, the"leaders" of "shahreh-no" 
were arrested and taken to the courts. To refresh our ever aging memories,
"shahreh-no" was the prostitution center of Tehran, and the names of these
fearless leaders were "pari bolandeh", and "ashraf chahar cheshm". They
were both wearing hejAb (the way you define it) all through their glamorous 
careers and into the courts and all the way to "jookheye e'dAm" (execution squad).
Lotta good that hejAb did them!

>The fact that Shahrokh Mortazavi supports you is a strong enough proof that
>you must be ashamed of yourself!

I think you are confusing your emotions with your logic. Shahrokh, or anybody
else for that matter, has certain beliefs, good or bad. There are a lot of issues
on which I disagree with Shahrokh. But if it so happens that he agrees with me
on a certain point, I don't believe it takes away from the validity of that
point. It is as if you are saying that since Yazid and Mo-Aviyyeh claimed 
to be Moslems and followers of Mohammad, us knowing what they truly were, should
discredit Mohammad and all he stood for. Or since Abu-SofiAn converted to 
Islam, we should throw Islam away. 

OK, so Shahrokh made a mistake (in my opinion). Why does that bother you?
Are you so holly that you have never made any errors? What we do and what
we say, simply represents what we are, and what kind of beliefs we have, 
and what approaches we take to understanding issues. He chooses to express himself
in whatever manner. I think he has the right to say what he wants to say.
If *YOU* had a strong argument, you should be able to convince him of your
point of view. But apparently you can't and that bothers you. Well, it bothers
me too. So I will not get into an argument with him, until the day I am 
positive that I am strong enough to convince him. Meanwhile, he can think and
say and do what he wants. I will not let it bother me. I thought what he
did was uncalled for. But that is *my* opinion and nobody has to agree with it.

Aref
From: bahman@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bahman Khamneian)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: An observation: (Re: Drinking Chai )
Date: 10 Apr 92 18:07:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: mdd.1992Apr10.180743.2625
Distribution: soc.culture.iranian
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA

In article <1992Apr10.043453.3044@leland.Stanford.EDU> veeduh@leland.Stanford.EDU (Vida Tigrani) writes:
>In article <1992Apr6.165421.25757@acsu.buffalo.edu> acsossc@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Samir Chaudhari) writes:
>>
>> 	
>
>...  Farsi is included in the "Indo-European" family of
>languages.  There happen to be many words in Farsi, which are similar
>to the same word in Hindi.

True.

>  Examples include "book" ("ketAb") and "table"
>("meez"), which are similar in both languages.

KetAb is not an Indo-European word. It comes from Arabic.

Tea was introduced to iranian market in the last few
hunderd years and the word "chai" was imported with it.


bahman khamneian
From: cheragh@alborz.mips.com (Mash Cheragh_Ali)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Mojahedin Revisited
Date: 8 Apr 1992 00:18:55 GMT
Organization: The Light House
Distribution: world
Reply-To: cheragh@alborz.mips.com (Mash Cheragh-Ali)
NNTP-Posting-Host: alborz.mips.com


It is very interesting how much support Mojahedin is receiving from the 
SCI readers.  Mojahedin resembles a bankrupt organization that is trying
real hard to convince its creditors to give it another chance.  And they
keep pressing people for more support in order to bring their losing 
proposition to realization.  However, they seem to have used all the credit
that they had.  In fact, they have substantially overspent, and they have
foregone their credit limit.  Now instead of facing reality, claiming 
bankruptcy and going down with honor (sort of like the communist party in 
USSR), they are holding on real tight, like a baby to the mother.  They 
are afraid to let go of this bankrupt idea and organization.  They are 
afraid to let go, to be independent, and see, think, learn and experience.
They have wrapped themselves in their illusions and they have fantasized 
for so long that have become an illusions themselves.  

I truly feel sorry for them.

MCA

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From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Do you..., did you ....
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:31:39 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel

In article <1992Apr8.192513.11965@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> aref@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Modda'iyeh har hAzer va Vakileh har ghAyeb) writes:

>Did you ever burn your fingers when trying to strip
>your "nooneh sangak" from those little hot stones?
>
>Did you ever end up biting on one of those hot stones
>when you thought your "sangak" was completely rid of stones?

[ 1,023 other trips down memory lane deleted ... ]

thanks aref, i really enjoyed reading this article.  some
of the memories, especially the more pleasant ones (mostly
those of our childhood), reaaaally got my synapses firing.
some memory cells that had gray hairs growing on them
had to be reinstated back into service!  i mean, never
mind the registers, on chip cache, external cache, memory, 
disk, CD, ... i had to go aaaaalll the way out to the backup
tapes & archives to restore the lost memories!

>
>I am:
>
>	Confused about the country I grew up in and who to believe,
>	so I disbelieve any and everybody. 

youre not alone aref...  a whole generation feels that way.

>Given all of the above, do you expect otherwise?

nope.  youre feelings are justified.  even more worrisome is the
generation that follows us.  unless people want to raise their kids as
americans (<-- not meant as a derogatory comment), putting kids on an
exclusive iranian-culture diet in this society is going to be quite a
challenge.  and not necessarily wise. the lucky ones will have mentors
who will nurture them with the best that each culture has to offer,
while protecting them from the less than desirable aspects.

the saddest part of all, is the constantly growing feeling 
of homesickness, in the face of people having to pay 17,000 dollars just 
to be allowed to go back to their homeland.  
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: payman@milton.u.washington.edu (Payman Arabshahi)
Subject: Neeloofar-e Abi : A poem by Simin Behbehani
Reply-To: payman@u.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 00:12:09 GMT


The following beautiful poem is by the contemporary
Iranian (woman) poet, Simin BehbehAni, taken from
"gozeeneh-e ash'Ar-e seemin-e behbehAni", morvArid
Pub., Tehran, 1367 [1988].  This particular poem was
first published in 1336 [1957].

Enjoy!

Payman

------------------------------------------------------

neeloofar-e Abi


kAsh man ham, ham-cho yArAn, eshgh-e yAri dAshtam;
kAsh man ham jAn-e az gham bee-gharAri dAshtam.

tA keshad zeebA-rokhi bar chehreh-am dasti ze mehr,
kAsh, chon A-ee-neh, bar soorat ghobAri dAshtam.

ey ke gofti entezAr az marg jAn-farsA-tar ast !
kAsh jAn meedAdam, ammA entezAri dAshtam.

shAkheh-e omram nashod por-gol ke cheenad doosti;
la-jaram, az bahr-e doshman, kAsh khAri dAshtam.

khasteh-o Azordeh-am az khod goreezam neest; kAsh
hAlat-e az khod goreez-e cheshmeh-sAri dAshtam.

naghmeh-e sar dAdeh dar kooham : be khod bargashte-am --
key be sooy-e gheyr-e khod rAh-e farAri dAshtam ?

mehnat-o ranj-e khazAn in-gooneh jAn fArsA nabood
gar neshAti dar del az eysh-e bahAri dAshtam.

tekyeh kardam bar mohabbat, hamcho neeloofar bar Ab :
e'tebAr az pAyeh-e bee-e'tebAri dAshtam !

pAy-band-e kas naboodam, pAy-bandam kas nabood :
chon naseem az golshan-e geeti gozAri dAshtam.

	           *   *   *

vAy, seemin ! hAselam zin sookhtan afsordan ast :
hamcho akhgar dowlat-e nA-pAydAri dAshtam ...
From: minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Mojahedin Revisited
Date: 8 Apr 92 02:31:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucbeh.1992Apr7.213100.1056
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

I have read some stuff about the Mojahideen party. There are two branches, both
are socialist, however one branch believes in Islam, but the other is atheist.
Could someone give me more info or direct me to some books I could read about
them?

sincerely

zafar
From: suzi@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Suzan Ehdaie)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Electronic MoshA'aereh (why not :-)?)
Keywords: Poetry and more poetry
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:29:38 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Mountain View

In article <1992Apr14.201242.1347@EE.Stanford.EDU> mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack) writes:
>aref@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Modda'iyeh har hAzer va Vakileh har ghAyeb) writes:
>>mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack) writes:
>>>
>>>teer e mozhgAn e to az eynak e posht
>>>                      zad be ghalb e akhavi, bandeh ro kosht
>>>
>>>t bedeh, teyeh do noghteh!
>>
>>to keh az koocheyeh ma'shoogheyeh man migozari,
>>			man ham az koocheyeh ma'shoogheyeh to migozaram
>>
>>mim bedeh.
>
>morgh e bAgh e malakootam, ni'yam az Alam e khAk
>                        chand roozeest ghafasi sAkhteh and az badanam
>
>mim bedeh
>
>    --mack


	Mayaazar mori ke dane kesh ast

			Ke Jan darad o Jan shirin kosh ast

	Te please :-)

	-Suzan
From: kambizm@ifi.uio.no (Mobarekeh Kambiz Iranpour)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Az Div o Dad Maloolam
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:39:06 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Originator: kambizm@svarte.ifi.uio.no

Di Sheikh ba cheragh hami gasht dor shahr 
                       Az div o dad mallolam o ensanam arezoost

This board has become " meydan yeke taze" ultra nationalsts and rude
fundamentalists. I here by plead normal people to come out of their holes and
contribute with their intelligence and some originality. If nothing is done
soon we will have a Islamic.soc instead of our board. 
                                                Kambiz
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: amoojoon@ghahveh.khooneh.mash.yadollAh (Bacheh Morshed)
Subject: AzmAyesheh jadeed!
Summary: taveezeh ghahveh khooneh
Keywords: YadollAh
Organization: naghAl khooneh
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 00:24:05 GMT

Amoo's experiencing problem with mash ghanbar's ghahveh khooneh.
This a new site.
From: minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Reply to  Bahaies  gang
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:22:08 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

You know, I've been reading in scPakistan the same kind of discussion, with the
exception that some of the people over there believe that Mirza Ghulam Ahmed of
Qadian, India was the Messiah/Prophet. This is very interesting.

zafar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
Subject: Re: Electronic MoshA'aereh (why not :-)?)
Keywords: Poetry and more poetry
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 08:06:39 GMT

amoojoon@ghahveh.khooneh.mash.yadollAh (Bacheh Morshed) writes:

> To rA bA nabardeh daleerAn cheh kAr
>                                to barzegari beelat Ayad beh kAR

SalAm amoo,

You must have been watching "Daiee jAn Napoleon" lately.

> "reh" mohebbat befarmAyeen,

Here you go:

roozi ze sar e sang oghAbi be havA khAst
                az bahr e tama' bAl o par e kheesh biArAst

> amoojoon

dAdAsh zAdeh    :-)
From: amehdi@src.honeywell.com (Hossien Amehdi)
Subject: IRANIAN REVOLUTION DATE!
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 16:49:18 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.234108.14965@acsu.buffalo.edu> sepehr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ramin S.) writes:
>
>I remember after the revolution back in 1977 in Iran the most brutal and
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>outragous crime that I have ever seen in my whole life occurred . 
>

...
stuff deleted
...

After the revolution in 1977?

The downfall of the shah happened in Feb 11, 1979, and that date is
often used in referring to "after the Iranian revolution"!

Was the another revolution in 1977 in Iran that I am not aware of?!!!
From: minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Reply to  Bahaies  gang
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:56:13 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

In article <ku9pa9INNhfs@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi) writes:
> In article <1992Apr9.234056.7976@watserv1.waterloo.edu> arash@sunee.waterloo.edu (Arash Jahangir) writes:
> 
>>remember the old woman's voice with her thick Armanian accent that said,
>>"shab tA sob mAn bAghAl-eh shoharam lokht mikhAbam va hich-i nemisheh; mAn
>>nemidoonam shoomA mosAlmoonA aslan chee mikhorid ke injoor tahreek mishid"
> 
> beautiful!  just beaaaaauuuuuuuuuutiful!  what a classic!!!
> 
> the funny thing with this hejaab business is that supposedly these easily
> aroused moslems can jump in the sack and relieve themselves with 
> a simple 'seegheh' anyway!  so whats the big phaaking problem?!?
> 
> if anything, not the women, but the average aakhoond and talabeh should
> wear a veil to spare the environment from their hideous, half-shaven
> faces, and their oderous and shepeshee bodies.  isnt there a
> Federal Environmental Agency in iran???  its a mystery to me, 
> especially since eslaam preaches paakeezegee so much...
> 
> i guess we can call this selective observation & enforcement.
> 
>>
>>Arash 


I thought that seeghah was looked down upon in Iran. Isn't that the case? I
know in Sunniyah it is forbidden to have a temporay wife.

zafar
From: cheragh@alborz.mips.com (Mash Cheragh_Ali)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Az Div o Dad Maloolam
Date: 7 Apr 92 16:40:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: spim.ku3k4oINNh6g
Reply-To: cheragh@alborz.mips.com (Mash Cheragh-Ali)
Organization: The Light House
NNTP-Posting-Host: alborz.mips.com

In article <CMM.0.90.2.702657546.kambizm@svarte.ifi.uio.no>,
kambizm@ifi.uio.no (Mobarekeh Kambiz Iranpour) writes:
> Di Sheikh ba cheragh hami gasht dor shahr 
>              ^^^^^^^   Az div o dad mallolam o ensanam arezoost
> 
>...

Dear Sir,

Please refrain from broadcasting these damaging rumors.  I went to bed at 
11pm last night and didn't wake up until 7am.  This Sheikh should have been
out with someone else.  Just because I leave in S.F. area, it doesn't mean
that I'm not straight! 

Mash Cheragh

	== Neither East, nor West, just straight! == 

Thank you Mahyar for lending me your ==.

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Re: Terrorist Khomeini regime attacks an NLA Base
Originator: sehari@vincent1.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:53:30 GMT

In <saied.702778817@odin> saied@odin.unomaha.edu (Saied*) writes:

>arash@sunee.waterloo.edu (Arash Jahangir) writes:
>[stuff deleted]
>>Iraqis with all their resources and forien aid and airplanes and 
>>missiles and whatever else did not mannage to overthrow the regime, just who
>>do you think MKO are, supermen?

>One small correction and one small comments about the
>above article from Mr. Arash Jahangir:

>First, the Iraqis had no intention of overthrowing the Khomeini
>regime and thus their resources was not used as such. I think

Yeah!  They come to our country, gang raped 20 desfolies girls, and still
being defended by your group!  Gee, I wonder would you said the same thing
if those were your sister or mother?!

>their intention was to take over Khouzestan (or part of it.)

Now, since when it is justified to give part of Iran away?  Look at the rest
of the garbage bellow see how they defend the enemy!

>The Khomeini regime, on the other hand, had such an intention
>and it declared it both prior to the war and during the war.
>In addition to overthrowing the Iraqi government and installing
>an akhoundism regime in Iraq, Khomeini declared its determination in
>freeing Palestine thru Karbala (and of course with the help of
>Israeli's arms)! With all the help it receive from Israel and 
>the US, the Khomeini regime was only able to take over the Faw
>island but was kicked out in 1988.

Helps, such as downing if Iran Air. yeah, right!  I just cannot sit here
and see you belittle all those soldiers who died to save the country.  You
guys are shameless crowed.

>Second, the Mojahedin have always stated that they will free Iran
>with the help of people. The NLA is there to confront the armed
>forces of the regime; everything else is to be done by the people.

Yeah! the fox delears it's readiness to protect the chickens -:)

     With highest regards for all those who died to save the country,
                           Babak  Sehari.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: arash@sunee.waterloo.edu (Arash Jahangir)
Subject: Re: cynical irony
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 01:30:44 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.201119.23449@athena.mit.edu> nsohrabi@athena.mit.edu (Naghmeh Sohrabi) writes:
>
>Hello everyone.
>A friend of mine and I were talking the other day about the fact that neither of
>us could come up with Persian equivalents to two words: Irony, and cynicism.
>There are some words that have similar meanings, but nothing that actually
>expresses the meaning of these words.  We decided that probably the reason is that
>we have too little of one to even have a word for it, and too much of the other,
>that we don't even need a word for it.
>
>Anyway, I would appreciate suggestions.
>
>Naghmeh 


Cynisim is bad-bini and manfi-bAfi.
Irony is a tough one.  Depending on its usgae it can be translated to one of
these words when they are used in their proper context.

Maskhareh   as in "maskhareh in ast keh ..."  "it is ironic that ..."
Ta'neh
Tanz
matalack


Arash
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: aref@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Modda'iyeh har hAzer va Vakileh har ghAyeb)
Subject: Re: Electronic MoshA'aereh (why not :-)?)
Keywords: Poetry and more poetry
Organization: VezArateh Farhango-Honar 
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 00:54:06 GMT

In article <181069@pyramid.pyramid.com> suzi@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (Suzan Ehdaie) writes:
>
>	Mayaazar mori ke dane kesh ast
>
>			Ke Jan darad o Jan shirin kosh ast
>
>	Te please :-)
>

	to kaz mehnateh digarAn bighamy

		nashAyad ke nAmat dahand Adamy

yeh bedeh.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: afghahi@news.cs.odu.edu ()
Subject: Getting to know Iran
Originator: afghahi@raedwald.cs.odu.edu
Organization: Old Dominion University Dept. of CS, Norfolk VA
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 03:49:19 GMT




"Hammihananeh Gerami Dorood Bar Shoma"

To know Ferdosi is to know Iran. He rescued the iranian culture and preserved
the iranian identity after Arab invasion at around 1300 years ago. He spent 
almost all of his adult life putting the character and history of Iran into
poetry. He gave life to a dying nation and culture, and so he says:
"cho essa man in mordegun ra tammom
                             sarasar hameh zendeh kardam ba-num"
For iranians, getting to know Ferdosi and his work is getting to know their
own real selves. 
                    "Khoda negahdar"

A suggested reading on Ferdosi and his work:
    Title: "Zendegi va marge pahlavanan dar shahnameh"
    By: Dr. Mohammad Ali Eslami Nodoshen
    Publisher : Moasesehe Dastan (1369 Hejri Shamsi)