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From: farzin@apollo3.apollo3.ntt.JP (5.121A)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Tehran launches trolley bus in a bid to reduce pollution
Date: 16 Sep 92 01:45:27 GMT
Organization: none


   
From: Japan Times, Sept. 16, 1992
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NICOSIA (Reuter-Kyodo) Tehran started a 7-km trolley bus service
Monday as part of a $20 million plan to fight pollution and traffic
congestion. 
Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, riding one of the buses
bought from Czechoslovakia's Skoda, told Tehran Radio the government
would expand the network if it proved effective.
``We hope to make Tehran a better place to live by building more
parks, converting cars to burn gas, removing polluting industries
and similar measures,'' Rafsanjani said.
Tehran newspapers quoted a city official as saying the $20 million
contract with Skoda covered an 18-km east-west line. The eastern
part of the line was inaugurated Monday. There was no word when
the rest would be finished.
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From: banerjee@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Samit Banerjee)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.indian
Subject: Re: India protests Iranian call for Islamic unity on Kashmir
Date: 14 Sep 1992 00:09:33 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: phad.hsc.usc.edu

In article <1992Sep14.045251.17480@cc.uow.edu.au> g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au (adil shaikh) writes:
>mtaghavi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Amir Taghavi) writes:
>
>
>>	The government viewed Rafsanjani's remarks as an unjustified
>>interference in India's internal affairs, spokesman Aftab Seth told a
>>news briefing.
>Shame GOI. Why does India support to "Jiye Sindh" leader?
>


For the same reason that Pakistan supports the JKLF, Khalistan Commando
Force etc.

Why does India get refugees from all it's neighbouring countries? I haven't
heard you find fault with the GOI policy on that.


>It is shameful that support to Kashmiris by Iran is on the basis of Islam.
>

Maybe. More importantly, Iran was clearly interfering in India's internal
affairs and I find that more disturbing.


Samit


>
>Bye
>Adil


Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri)
Subject: Re: Googoosh Image on tehran.stanford.edu
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:36:41 GMT

In article bashir@acsu.buffalo.edu (Noushin Bashir) writes:
|> In article bashir@acsu.buffalo.edu (Noushin Bashir) writes:
|> >Hello All,
|> >
|> >In case it wasn't mentioned before, I put a gif image of Googoosh
|> 				     ^^^^^
|> 
|> I just realized my mistake this morning. This should have been "I asked
|> Farhad to put". 


Ekhtiar dareed khanom!  :)

|> 	
|> >on tehran.stanford.edu @ /Iran_Lib/gif. It's in B&W, BNM it's 
|> >perfect, and it's an older picture of her. I guess it's still
|> >alright ...
|> >
|> 
|> Many thanks to Farhad Shakeri's kindness for providing us with the
|> services available on 'tehran' ....
|> 
|> 


I am all red ear to ear, please!!   :-)))))


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: minhaszt@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Zafar T Minhas)
Subject: Re: Iraq and King Fahd(fKing Fahd protests 'no fly' policy against Iraq
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 05:42:31 GMT

to all you people who are reading lotfi's posts. what he is trying to pass off
as "news" is not news. what's the matter can't you guys see that he is trying
to make a point? he is trying to make a scenrio of what he feels should 
happen and compare it to reality. (i think). in any case. his "news" is not
news, it is fairy tales concocted out of his head and you fools are being
suckered into believing what he says.

get real
zafar

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: saied@cwis.unomaha.edu (Saied*)
Subject: Re: repression of women
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 20:12:23 GMT

bes@cco.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi) writes:

>In article <1992Sep10.183412.19759@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> eshghi@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com (Kave Eshghi) writes:

>>Great! by the same analogy, drinking tea is the same as shooting heroin,
>>they are both addictive substances, only the degree is different! 

>That's right, only the degree is different. That's the whole point.
>However, the fact that the degree is different doesn't justify shooting
>heroin.   That's also why the Western requirements on dress which
>are restricted only to the covering genitals and part of the breast (for
>women) are not acceptable within any Muslim culture.  (Thanks God!).

Is throwing acid into a young woman's face acceptable in your
Khomeinist culture?

Is rounding women, and throwing them into buses acceptable in
Khomeinist culture?

Is fining women $20, $30, $50, .. just because some part of
their hair was showing acceptable in Khomeinist culture?

Is ...

Of course they are acceptable; they are being practiced by the
thugs in Iran during last 13 years.

The crimes committed by akhounds against the Iranian women has
nothing to do with Islam. "Islam" is just a cover to suppress
people, to humiliate women, and to degrade the society.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala)
Subject: Re: Regime admits assassinating dissidents
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 23:44:17 GMT

harrsen@rainier.eng.ohio-state.edu (John Harrsen) writes:

>Yesterday I posted the following;

>>I heard this morning that Falaheyan (regime's minister of
>>SAVACK) in a TV interview has admitted that the regime has
>>been behind the assassination of the dissidents outside of
>>Iran.  

>>Asghar
> 
>This was based on the interview that Falaheyan did last
>Sunday in Tehran. He was proudly explaining how  they have
>"hit" the groups outside of Iran, particularly in Europe,
>Turkey, and the Arab world. Then Ala thinking that his "spy"
>cover was blown as always resorted to nonsense and responded
>with the following;

>In article <BtxCF4.7B7@news.cso.uiuc.edu> yaser@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Ala) writes:
>>I heard this morning that Rajavi (MKO's dictator at large)
>>in a TV interview has admitted that the MKO has
>>been behind the assassinations of the dissidents outside of
>>Iran.
>>

>This is a clear indication how Hezbollahes fabricate news. 

>Asghar

I finaly got to read what Fallaahian said in Iran Times,
in a weekly Iranian paper in the U.S. (D.C. I beleive).
He was takling about the success of IRI's intelligence department
(VEZAARAT-E ETTELLA'AAT) in discovering spy activities in Iran.
He also said that his department has had success in penetrating into
active anti-IRI groups (it was apparent that he talked about MKO).
He may be refering to the information that lead to IRI's air assualt
on MKO's central command a few months ago.  There was no mention of
Iranian dissidents abroad.

You Asghar John reported a fabricated news on this net.
You chose to be a LIER and you totally discredited yourself. 
You should ask yourself a question:
"can one be the follower of Rajavi and not lie?"

Ala
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: saied@cwis.unomaha.edu (Saied*)
Subject: Re: Repression of women has been escalated in Iran
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 18:22:33 GMT

bes@cco.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi) writes:

>In article <BuD8B0.8K6@acsu.buffalo.edu> bashir@acsu.buffalo.edu (Noushin Bashir) writes:

>>Yes, perhaps you are right. However, one should get the hint that it
>>is the imposed principle that Iranian women are and have been
>>resisting for more than 13 years now. Recent arrests are an obvious
>>indication of the failure of this so-called Islamic principle. 

>It is not clear to me how the recent arrests of 20 people is
>"an obvious indication of the failure of this so-called Islamic
>principle."   

The Jomhuri-eslami reported that 113,000 were *ARRESTED* last
year; another report released by the regime press last
year stated that for example 800 women were *ARRESTED* in
just 2 (i.e., one, two) days in Tehran (that is, 400 a day).

Furthermore, if the arrests were in single digists or lets say
10 or 20, it would not require buses for rounding and loading
women and certainly would not require building rehabilitation
camps.

You Khomeini apologist, face it: There is no way you can hide,
justify, or minimize the scope of terror and repression against
the Iranian women. The regime's slogan of "yA rousari yA to
sari" and repeated cycles of acid-sparying and paint-sparying
as well as degrading horrors of not releasing a woman until one
her relatives certifies that she is not a prostitutes, etc., has
been experienced by a majority of "sharif" and "AzAdeh" women of
Iran and has been reported in the media.


Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.indian
From: g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au (adil shaikh)
Subject: Re: India protests Iranian call for Islamic unity on Kashmir
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 92 04:52:51 GMT

mtaghavi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Amir Taghavi) writes:


>	The government viewed Rafsanjani's remarks as an unjustified
>interference in India's internal affairs, spokesman Aftab Seth told a
>news briefing.
Shame GOI. Why does India support to "Jiye Sindh" leader?

>	Addressing the Pakistani Parliament Monday during a state visit, the
>Iranian president said: ``Kashmir is not only Pakistan's problem, it is
>a problem of the entire Islamic world.''

Kashmir is a proble of Kashmiris with Inida and Pakistan.
It is shameful that support to Kashmiris by Iran is on the basis of Islam.


Bye
Adil
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: mtaghavi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Amir Taghavi)
Subject: Iran denies shiping arms to Bosnian Muslims
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:59:37 GMT



	BEIJING (UPI) -- President Hashemi Rafsanjani Thursday denied a report
of Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia-Hercegovina but indicated that Iran
would consider future sales to embattled Muslim forces in the war-torn
country.
	``I would like you to know that they have not yet requested arms from
Iran,'' Rafsanjani said, but added his country would give U.N. sanctions
a chance to work.
	He left the door open for future sales if the sanctions do not work.
	``If they request arms from Iran, this is something we shall
consider,'' Rafsanjani said at a news conference.
	According to a report in Thursday's New York Times, Croatian
officials in the capital of Zagreb confiscated 4,000 guns and more than
a million rounds of ammunition from an Iranian Boeing 747.
	The report, attributed to Bush administration sources, said Croatian
officials found the war materiel and up to 40 Iranian nationals on a
routine inspection of relief supplies bound for Bosnia.
	In the past few months Bosnian Muslims have lost much of their
territory to better equipped Serbian forces, and Muslim countries are
known to be disturbed by the increasingly one-sided civil war.
	``The situation right now is very bad,'' Rafsanjani said. ``Only one
side has all the arms, and soon the other side will have to get them
from someone.''
	The Iranian leader, who is on a four-day official visit to China,
rejected the New York Times report, saying his government had no such
airplane.
	``I have not heard of any such thing,'' the president said. ``The
report is a mere fabrication.''
	Rafsanjani told reporters the main purpose of his trip to China, his
first since assuming the presidency, was to cement close ties between
the two countries.
	He denied persistent reports of Chinese arm sales to his country,
saying the only contracts discussed were for a new subway system and for
the sale of a small nuclear reactor for peaceful purposes.
	``We have no military contracts to be signed here,'' Rafsanjani said.
	An Iranian military delegation led by army logistics chief Gen.
Alastu Tuhidi arrived in China Tuesday to discuss ``the further
development of friendly relations between China and Iran,'' according to
China's official Xinhua news agency.
	Western reports have said the talks would include co-production of
weapons in Iran, as well as future weapons sales by the Chinese.


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil)
Subject: Re: Paarsi-TeX
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 21:27:07 GMT

farhad@CS.Stanford.EDU (Farhad Shakeri) writes:

>SalAm,
>Don Knuth gave me a letter he received from Iran about Paarsi_TeX.
....

You might be interested in right to left/left to right editor for
preparing your inputs. I have just released one at

	cs.ubc.ca:/ftp/pickup/terse/hebkb110.zip

to edit text in Paarsi you will need also a Paarsi font (shouldn't be
a big problem) and a program to do keyboard remapping. If you will send
me the map, I can easily tailor my Hebrew keyboard program for Paarsi..

I will not say much about the editor, but I will mention that almost
every one who tried it said that it had knocked his socks off.
--
Joseph (Yossi) Gil                 {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!yogi
Dept. of Computer Science          yogi@cs.ubc.ca (cs.ubc.ca=137.82.8.5)
6356 Agricultural Road., Univ. of B.C.,             Tel: +1-604-822-8175
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z2, Canada.       Fax: +1-604-822-5485
From: nsohrabi@athena.mit.edu (Naghmeh Sohrabi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: iran
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:37:00 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


People have sent me mail asking me to write sime stuff about my trip to Iran.
I'll write a bit, but I'll give you a more complete report when I get more
settled down in school.

My general impression of the situation was the things have gotten worse since 4
years ago when I used to live there.  A lot of travelers go to Iran, and come
back saying that it's wonderful and not what the media says it is. I think the
reason is that that these travelers take dollars with them and don't feel the
economic pressure everyone is going through.  There is no scarcity in Iran.  I
tell everyone there's every kind of candy bar one can think of in the shops the
problem is that people rarely have the buying power.  I noticed that everytime I
sat in a taxi, the only thing people talked about was how expensive things have
become.
Actually an interesting thing someone told me was that at the last open session
for Congress, Mr. Khalkhali, the famous one of course, goes up to the podium and
asks everyone to say a fateheh (you know, that prayer for the dead).  so everyone
gets busy saying it , and you could hear them murmuring it over the open mics. 
When they're done, Khalkhali says that was for "marhoum" Hoveida!  Then he
continues and says " Before I executed that man he said let me tell you something
in words that you would understand.  I may not have done much, but at least
when I first got in power, a box of matches were 7 rials (I think, I
don't remember the exact number) and when I left they still were that price.  Do
you think you guys can accomplish that much?"  Then Khalkhali continued saying
"Then I didn't understand what he actually meant, but know I do."  
The price of everything has increased by 5-6 orders of magnitude.  This is the
main thing that's bugging people now.  It's so overwhelming that it overshadows a
lot of "political" gaps that an outsider may feel in Iran.  Someone in Iran told
me that once Churchill (or some other racist guy) had said "if you want no
political trouble in that region, keep the Indians poor, the Arabs full, and the 
Iranians hungry."

Anyway, enough for now.  The intersting stuff will have to wait for a while!

naghmeh
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: bavafa@netcom.com (Hooshyar Naraghi)
Subject: Re: Response to everyone
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 05:54:35 GMT
Organization: Citizenship

In article <1992Sep11.34824.12668@ms.uky.edu> uk05650@nx30.mik.uky.edu (Adnan Al-Alharmoodi) writes:
>Salam bar doostan:

[stuff about liking Ramin's jokes deleted]

>I don't understand why we Iranians have to make  
>everything so hard for ourselves.  We occupy our minds with such  
>ridiculous thoughts that we forget to think about more beneficient subjects.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (1)                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^(2)
Just out of curiousity, can you tell us (1) what ridiculous thoughts and
(2) what beneficial subjects you are referring to?

>	I hope I haven't insulted anyone.  By the way I am orginally from  
>a part of Iran Where the people of the Iranians tell plenty jokes about.

Hmm, let me see.  We Iranians have 'dast-e avval' (first class) jokes for
Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Rashtis, Baloochis, Esfahanis, Ghazvinis, Lors, Yazdis,
Shirazis, Kermanis, . . . .

Obviously you cannot be from all parts of Iran, so why don't you get us out
of suspense and tell us where you are from.  I cannot guess by simply
inferring from jokes.  Using jokes as a pointer is useless for almost 
every Iranian city and town has a joke reserved for it.

>Adnan Al-Harmoodi                         University of Kentucky

Regards,
Hooshyar F. Naraghi
bavafa@netcom.com
(415) 322-8056
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From: mickw@autodesk.com (Mick Washbrook)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.arabic,soc.rights.human
Subject: Re: Advice to "ahriman"
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:54:26 GMT
Followup-To: soc.culture.iranian

In article <3i5.flr4j@lab.ntt.jp>, farzin@apollo3.apollo3.ntt.JP (Farzin Mokhtarian) writes:
> 
> 
> Don't play with these words "ahriman", "lucifer", ...
> Don't mock evil. Not every topic is good for jokes.
> Know what you say. Just a warning.
>                 
>  - NOT Ahriman
>               

Of course, it helps to know that the devils of one age are the gods of
a previous age. There are more similarities between Lucifer and Jesus
than might immediately be apparent.

[Cue mysterious organ music, please.]

--
mickw@autodesk.com

Life is too short to vote for bad politicians.

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: saied@cwis.unomaha.edu (Saied*)
Subject: Re: Munafeghin
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 23:11:40 GMT

<U60001@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:

>Munafeghin-a zed-a khalqh are known to everybody entirely for their
>participation in anti-revolutionary activities against the khalqh-a
>IRAN. They are weak and can not propose themeselves socially or
>politically to the people of Iran. They are defeated politically,
>socially, and more obvious one militarily.

You've got your "facts" badly garbled. Existing records show that
it has been the illegitimate Khomeini regime that has been badly
defeated in the above three areas. In particular,

	1. Khomeini was forced to drink the peace poison, ending
	his warmongering and destructive "war, war, until ..."
	slogans, thus accepting a military defeat and forgetting
	about capturing Karbala, Najaf, despite having sophisticated
	Israeli arms.

	2. It has been the Khomeini regime that has been socially
	defeated and rejected by the people. High number of
	exections and political prisoners, 113,000 women arrest in
	a year, and the mounting protests throughout Iran attest
	to none but the hatred of people towards the regime. Add
	to this the high number of Iran's intellectuals and highly
	educated individuals who have left Iran.

	3. And certainly, it has been the Khomeini regime that has
	been defeated politically. Worldwide condemnation and
	rejection of the regime and regime's uses of terrorism and
	hostage-taking is but the signs of political humuliations.
	Add to this the unwillingness of the legitiamte Iranian
	political groups to cooperate with this evil regime.

Why do not you take a walk along the Lake Shore Drive figuring out
how akhound Khamenei became an "ayatollah" and the "Leader of all
Muslims" overnight and how "ayatollah" Montazeri had to be silenced
and put aside after 8 years of being the "faghih-e 'Ali-ghadr".

Saied
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: bes@cco.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi)
Subject: Re: repression of women
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 01:30:36 GMT

>In article <1992Sep8.144149.18953@sei.cmu.edu> psc@sei.cmu.edu (Peter Capell) writes:

>imposed upon the women of the middle east not by Allah, but by men and men
>alone.

1.  The chador is not a requirement in Iran.

2.  The Islamic dress is imposed by the culture, which means by both
men and women.   Now, you may dislike the culture or certain aspects
of it. That's fine.  But in the interest of truth, one must not claim 
that it's *only* men who support modest dress.

>3) I am about to make a very American, prejudiced remark: it is our
>observation here that Iranian men/boys, upon coming to the U.S., many times
>become very licentious.

Who knows, perhaps these individuals were licentious even before they
came to the U.S.  Who knows, perhaps that's one of the reasons they
didn't like living in Iran in the first place.

Behnam Sadeghi
From: sepehr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ramin S.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Need your advice for a good school
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:57:32 GMT
Organization: UB

Hi Guys and Gals,

	I am looking for a good grad school in the East coast for Computer
science and/or Applied Mathematics . My school has a good grad school but 
to be honest I don't want to stay in buffalo ...  chil pil ... I love DC 
area and am interested in that area , like George Washington or Maryland
University or Virginia University. If you know about these schools ( how
they are , how expensive they are ... ) please let me know . Also if you
know of any other school that you can recommend, please mail to me. I don't
have 3.95 GPA but I have decent average, so don't recommend MIT or
Harvard...  8-) .

Ramin