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From: Babak Sehari
Subject: AFGHAN PARTIES AGREE TO CLOSE UP SHOP IN PAKISTAN 
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:46:49 GMT



 AFGHAN PARTIES AGREE TO CLOSE UP SHOP IN PAKISTAN 
    By Raja Asghar 
    ISLAMABAD, Jan 6, Reuter - Afghan guerrilla parties said on Wednesday they
would obey orders to shut offices in Pakistan, their base for 14 years of civil
war in Afghanistan. 
    An order issued on Tuesday by the government of Pakistan's Northwest
Frontier province said the mujahideen parties and unregistered non-governmental
organisations dealing with Afghan refugees in Pakistan must close their doors
and their staff must leave the country by January 31. 
    Spokesmen for several parties said they would comply but most said they had
not yet received the order, which the provincial government said it issued as
part of a new federal government decision to expel illegal aliens. 
    The order also directed the printing presses run by the Afghan parties to
close by January 31 and forbade Pakistani presses to print Afghan publications.
    A foreign ministry spokesman said the nearly two million Afghan refugees
still living in Pakistan with refugee cards would not be hit by the decision. 
    He said they were ``a different class'' and were being repatriated to
Afghanistan by the United Nations in a phased programme. 
    ``There is now a (mujahideen) government in Afganistan, a political
situation has evolved, and it is our hope that political activity will shift to
Afghanistan,'' the spokesman said. 
    ``We are refugees and will obey whatever orders are given to us by the
Pakistan government,'' said Mohammad Younis Khalis, who heads a faction of the
Hezb-i-Islami party. 
    An official of the main Hezb-i-Islami of radical mujahideen leader
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an opponent of Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani's
government, said the party had already shifted its headquarters to Afghanistan
and would shut its liaison offices if asked. 
    Ustad Saeed, who heads the Hezb-run Afghan News Agency, said the Afghan
parties would accept the Pakistani decision without hesitation. 
    But he said the lives of some leaders were not safe in Afghanistan, where
fighting has continued between rival parties even after the guerrillas took
power from the collapsed former communist government in April. 
    The Pakistani government last Sunday decided to deport all illegal
immigrants in a move that will also hit thousands of Arabs who fought for the
Afghan mujahideen. 
 REUTER RA ML SM 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: Ali Reza Group Gets Saudi Arabia McDonald's Franchise
Followup-To: poster
Originator: sehari@bart.ecss.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:50:01 GMT

12/28 (DJ) Ali Reza Group Gets Saudi Arabia McDonald's Franchise

    JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -AP- The Ali Reza Group has won the McDonald's
franchise in Saudi Arabia after a tough competition with a number of
major companies that lasted for several years, the daily Al-Eqtisadiya
reported.
    Last week, McDonald's Corp. (MCD) opened its first restaurant in the
Arab and African world in Morocco.
    According to the newspaper, the franchise covers the Western
Province, which constitutes the largest market in the kingdom.
    The group has been negotiating to get the franchise since 1978.
Major Saudi business groups like Abdullatif Jameel, al-Mawared and
al-Diwan also have been trying to win the agency.
    The first branch of McDonald's will be opened in Jiddah by the end
of the next year. It will be followed by branches in Medina and Mecca.
    In the next phase, branches will be opened in Abha and Tabuk also,
depending on the demand and market reactions. The company refused to
give any figures related to the agreement.
     8:32 AM
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follows, might or might not be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth.  Then again, it might be.  Here, I do not claim either.
I just would like to share with you, the articles that has been collected
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Thank you, for your informed readings.

                    With highest regards,
                         Babak   Sehari.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Lost Helicopter [sci-anon-poster]
Date: 8 Jan 93 23:21:12 GMT
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To: sci-anon-poster

Has anyone heard any confirmed news about the lost 
helicopter in Iran yet, as what the story was behind it?  

Thanks  
 
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: afsar@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Haji Firoz)
Subject: Re: Question about rape
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 19:28:48 GMT

revans@euclid.ucsd.edu (Ron Evans) writes:
: >"The only duty religion requires of a married woman is
: >submitting to sexual relations with the husband," she said.
: 	I don't understand.  How often does the woman have to
: 	submit?  What if she is only rarely in the mood?

Hi Ron:

This is a difficult subject to discuss and I would think that both husband and
wife need to talk about it or they have to consult a physician.

: 	I have also a hypothetical question.  Two Muslim
: 	women were raped today on different streets in the
: 	city. One was wearing the hijab, the other
: 	western dress and lipstick.  Would (should?) both
: 	rapists receive equally severe punishment?

You have asked a kind of difficult question and not considering where the
woman is at the time of the rape (middle east countries ?).
Most Moslem countries do not allow western dress up and lipsticks in public
areas (do not ask me why, this is a different subject). I think she will 
receives some kind of punishments for not having hijab. I have to say that
your hypothetical question needs more thinking and probably details. 

As far as I know a sexual act committed by force on a woman is forbidden in 
all the official religions and punishments may be different from one religion 
to another. 

I am not so educated in Islamic laws but I can tell you that the rapist loses 
his life.

Have a nice day

Haji Firoz
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: Babak Sehari
Subject: 12 high school students were killed
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:10:30 GMT

---


    The Iranian news agency IRNA said 12 high school students were killed in
the accident along with one of their teachers, a school janitor and the bus
driver. 
    It said eight students had been taken to hospital. 
 REUTER DYA TG 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: soyeh@crchh465.BNR.CA (Soyeh McCarthy)
Subject: Another test 
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:07:38 GMT
Reply-To: soyeh@crchh465.BNR.CA (Soyeh McCarthy)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

Another test
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: Babak Sehari
Subject: PALACE DENIES CHARLES-CAMILLA TURKISH RENDEZVOUS STORY 
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:16:36 GMT



 PALACE DENIES CHARLES-CAMILLA TURKISH RENDEZVOUS STORY 
    LONDON, Jan 6, Reuter - Buckingham Palace on Wednesday dismissed as
``simply not true'' a U.S. magazine report that heir-to-the-throne Prince
Charles had a secret rendezvous with an old flame in Turkey last year behind
his wife's back. 
    The article by royal biographer Anthony Holden in the latest edition of
Vanity Fair magazine said Charles left his wife Diana alone during an official
visit to Egypt to fly to Turkey for a meeting with Camilla Parker-Bowles, an
army officer's wife. 
    The prince, who separated from his wife in December, was officially in
Turkey at the time for an archaeological dig. 
    Parker-Bowles, a mother-of-two who is a long-standing friend of the prince,
hit the headlines last year when newspapers ran reports of an alleged
``Camillagate'' taped telephone conversation said to feature salacious comments
from ``Charles.'' 
    Buckingham Palace, in an unusually forthright denial, dismissed the latest
report on the prince's love life as full of ``inaccuracies and misleading
innuendoes.'' 
    ``We have to make it quite clear that it is wholly untrue that the Prince
of Wales stayed at the home of wealthy Turkish friends or that he met Camilla
Parker-Bowles in Turkey in May. It is simply not true,'' a spokesman said. 
    The magazine article also said that Parker-Bowles, who was the prince's
girlfriend for a time some years before he met Diana, was believed to have
headed a committee to find a virgin for him to marry. 
    It said she put the future princess at the top of the list because the
young aristocrat was deemed too innocent to drive off Charles's existing women
friends. 
    Some royal-watchers have speculated that the prince's alleged attachment to
his confidante Parker-Bowles could have played a part in the breakdown of the
royal marriage, but palace aides decline to comment on such stories. 
 REUTER AMS WS
From: smortaz@handel.Eng.Sun.COM (Shahrokh Mortazavi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: IRAN INTRODUCES AIDS TESTS FOR FOREIGN RESIDENTS
Date: 10 Jan 1993 08:12:45 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: handel

In article <babak.726613585@cpre1.ee.iastate.edu> Babak Sehari writes:
>
> IRAN INTRODUCES AIDS TESTS FOR FOREIGN RESIDENTS 
>    NICOSIA, Dec 27, Reuter - Iran said on Sunday it was introducing mandatory
>AIDS tests for foreigners wishing to stay in the Islamic republic for more than
>three months.  ##########

amazing!  as if iranian citizens who travel back and forth to iran
are somehow immune to the hiv virus.  if anything, all the mullahs
who are the number one supporters of legalized prostitution -- whoops, 
sorry, i meant seegheh -- who travel back and forth to deposit their
khoms paychecks in the swiss accounts should be tested.  hell, if theres a
new high risk aids group in the making, this is it.

>    IRNA said the AIDS test for foreigners was part of measures ``to keep out
>AIDS-infected people from entering Iran.'' 

then i suppose if the rest of the world took measures ``to keep out 
fundamentalist iri supporters from entering their country'' that would be 
fair too.

be careful babak, they may come after you!  

can you spell this-creamy-nation?
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: derek@locus.com (Dariush Keyani-Yazdi)
Subject: Re: A few pure Persian words from Shah-Nama
Organization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 93 02:21:59 GMT

Behzad Sadeghi writes:

[Talking about Shahnameh:]

>national pride to you, but a bunch of deceptions and lies to me.
>for me it is a sad day to think of shah-naameh as a national pride.
>it is basically based on a bunch of mythical characters and it was
>the result of books like shaahnaameh that created a monster out
>of the shahs of the time or amr be eeshaan moshtabah shod.

May I suggest to you, Behzad, that you may be generalizing and
looking at the Shahnameh from a very negative perspective? Could it
be possible that the Shahnameh is not "a bunch of deceptions and lies"
as you put it, but mythical stories in an epic setting that serve a
special purpose in the long term life of a people by safekeeping and
tranferring the culture from generation to generation? 

You ask where is the culture in a bunch of fairy tail stories about
bigger than life characters and cruel kings? Isn't it called the
Book of Kings? Haven't we had enough monsters spring out of our history
as a result of Shahnameh?

These are all very valid questions, so allow me to explain my point
of view. I hope to present you with an alternative point of view which
won't be so repugnant to you.

Let's start with what is in Shahnameh, a bunch of stories. Great stories.
I think we can agree on that. The power in mythical stories lies in the
fact that they implicitly engage all manners of our humanity while 
seducing us with the passion and promise inherent in narrative. This way
they are far more effective vehicles for transformation than volumes of
didactic and theoretical material. 

All Great Stories draw their power from an archetypl world, the world of
pattern, the world of soul's authority, which is common to people of all
cultures and all times. All fairy tales are essentially narrative
complexes that collapse many mythical archetypal structures into one
story. Myth, however, has a more universal formulation that speaks to
the codings of the deep unconscious.

Shahnameh is the greatest monument of the Persian language and one of the
world's major epics. The stories in shahnameh are not about kings, they are
about you and I. As you read Shahnameh, which I hope you will someday, you
engage the mythical and symbolic characters and drama, you take the journey
of transformation by identifying with a mythic character who enlarges
some aspect of yourself. Gradually you discover that these stories are
your own stories.

Respectfully,
Dariush
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: Babak Sehari
Subject: TURKISH OIL IMPORTS UP 8.8 PCT IN JANUARY-OCTOBER 
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:15:21 GMT



 TURKISH OIL IMPORTS UP 8.8 PCT IN JANUARY-OCTOBER 
    ANKARA, Jan 7, Reuter - Turkey's crude oil imports rose by 8.8 per cent in
the first 10 months of 1992 to 15.84 million tonnes from 14.56 million in the
same 1991 period, the Treasury said on Thursday. 
    Turkey paid $2.17 billion for the oil imports in the period, up 7.2 per
cent from the bill in January-October 1991, it said. 
    Saudi Arabia was the top oil supplier to Turkey with 8.96 million tonnes
worth $1.18 billion, followed by Libya with 2.49 million tonnes worth $359.9
million. 
    Turkey paid an average $18.70 per barrel for its oil in the period, down
from $19 a year earlier. 
    Turkey's state run petroleum company TPAO said earlier that the country's
oil output would fall in 1993, and therefore imports would rise to meet
increasing domestic demand. 
    TPAO General Manager Okan Ozdemir said Turkey planned to buy about 19.65
million tonnes of crude oil in 1993, up from an expected 18.46 million tonnes
in 1992. 
    Turkey has targeted 4.2 million tonnes of overall oil output this year,
down from 1992's expected 4.4 million tonnes but above the 4.45 million
produced in 1991. 
    Turkey plans to pay $2.5 billion for its oil bill in 1992, Ozdemir said. 
 REUTER ERC JP 

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: aref@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Modda'iyeh har hAzer va Vakileh har ghAyeb)
Subject: Top Worldwide Poster "az khodemooneh" :-) 
Organization: VezArateh addliyyeh, bakh-sheh Foozooli 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:54:17 GMT

In article <1it650INN7pu@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> 
fayegh@cs.ubc.ca (David Fayegh) writes:

>The following data was extracted from the full set of USENET readership 
>report for the months of November AND December 1992 posted to news.lists 
>by Mr. Brian Reid. Please see the companion post in that newsgroup for 
>explanations of how the various figures were estimated.

From the very same newsgroup (news.lists) we bring you the 
Top 5 News Submitters by User by number of 
articles for the last 2 weeks ending Jan 8, 1993.

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From: newsstats@uunet.UU.NET
Subject: Top 25 News Submitters by User by number of articles for the last 2 wee
ks
Date: 8 Jan 1993 23:32:14 -0500
Organization: UUNET Communications
NNTP-Posting-Host: batch.uu.net


         No. of       % of
Rank Articles KBytes Total   User
   1  3152    3634.5  0.9%   ldm@wetterhorn.UCAR.EDU  (UNIDATA Local Data Mangem
ent daemon)
                              100% ncar.weather

   2   302     283.8  0.1%   sehari@iastate.EDU  (Babak Sehari)
                              11% soc.culture.iranian

   3   285      25.8  0.0%   skunz@iastate.EDU  (Steven L Kunz)
                              10% news.admin.misc
                              10% news.admin.policy

   4   197       9.7  0.0%   alex@stoic.spb.su  (Alex R. Passechnik)
                              92% relcom.commerce.food

   5   192      92.8  0.0%   maynor@ra.MSSTATE.EDU  (        Natalie Maynor )
                              100% bit.listserv.words-l
-------------------------------------------

Oh, by the way, ldm@wetterhorn is a weather conditions report daemon at 
UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research).

But number 2 is .... :-)


Gives a new twist to the term "Graduate School" ::-)


Asghary

 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: Babak Sehari
Subject: SNOW SHUTS IRAN AIRPORTS, DELAYS FRIDAY PRAYERS 
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:01:23 GMT


----

 SNOW SHUTS IRAN AIRPORTS, DELAYS FRIDAY PRAYERS 
    NICOSIA, Jan 8, Reuter - Heavy snow caused havoc in Iran on Friday,
disrupting flights and injuring at least four people at Tehran's mass prayer
meeting. 
    Tehran's Mehrabad airport was closed from Thursday night and several
international flights were diverted to Gulf airports. 
    ``We have had no flights so far today. One runway has been cleared to
receive the planes which were diverted to Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Dubai,'' a
Mehrabad official said. 
    Tehran Radio said most of Iran's airports were closed. 
    The official IRNA news agency said a part of the scaffolding erected in
Tehran University's former soccer pitch, where Friday prayers are held,
collapsed under the weight of the snow. 
    Four people were treated for slight injuries and the prayers were held with
some delay at the university mosque, it said. 
    The snow disrupted Tehran Radio's coverage of the prayers and, for the
first time in more than 13 years, the event failed to be mentioned on the
radio's main 2 p.m. newscast. 
    Tehran Radio said all the country's main highways were open but chains and
snow tyres were needed in mountain roads. 
 REUTER MZ JP
From: minhaszt@ucbeh.san.uc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: A few pure Persian words from Shah-Nama
Date: 6 Jan 93 13:10:17 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati

In article <1993Jan5.235755.7490@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, zamie@zamiepcSanDiego.NCR.com (Zamie Mehraz) writes:
> 
> Naghmeh = tune                  Ex: Bamdad Emroz Naghmeh Parandegan
  Nasib = 

Buzzzzzz! nasib and naghmeh are arabic. either arabic borrowed from another
root word or pure arabic altogether. not sure yet. nice try though.
> 
> 
> Khoda Neghah Dar
> 
> 
> Zamie

god protect you
zafar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: Babak Sehari
Subject: TURKEY WORKING ON WAYS TO EMPTY OIL IN PIPELINE 
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 03:11:42 GMT



 TURKEY WORKING ON WAYS TO EMPTY OIL IN PIPELINE 
    ANKARA, Jan 8, Reuter - Turkey is working on ways to empty Iraqi oil
trapped in a pipeline on its territory to prevent the crude corroding the
pipes, government sources said on Friday. 
    ``The pipelines should be emptied to prevent damage,'' a senior official
said. 
    He said the government was studying options on how to proceed, but declined
to elaborate. 
    A report in the mass-circulation daily Hurriyet on Monday quoted Prime
Minister Suleyman Demirel as saying that Turkey was carrying out a study to ask
the United Nations to let Ankara use the Iraqi oil in the pipeline. 
    ``The Iraqis are asking us to buy the oil. We will pay for some of it, and
give them medicine, but some of the proceeds will be accounted for their
debts,'' Demirel told the newspaper. 
    Turkish oil officials have said in the past that ``technically the
pipelines should be operated but politically this does not seem possible.'' 
    Sulphur-laden crude may corrode the pipelines. 
    Iraq owes Turkey $61.5 million in oil transit fees and about $1 billion in
overall trade debts, officials say. 
    The 986-km (616-mile) twin pipelines contain about four million barrels of
crude, state-run pipeline company BOTAS officials said. 
    They said that, together with the 12 storage tanks at the Mediterranean
Yumurtalik terminal, the total amount of oil in the system is about 9.2 million
barrels, 5.7 million of which belong to Iraq. 
    BOTAS officials said Turkey lost about $600 million since August 1990, when
Ankara promptly shut the pipeline under a U.N. trade embargo imposed on Baghdad
after its invasion of Kuwait. 
    The pipeline carried 1.2 million barrels of oil per day, or more than half
Iraq's oil exports before the Gulf crisis, from the Kirkuk oilfields to the
Mediterranean port of Yumurtalik. 
 REUTER ERC RE JP 

Xref: sparky soc.culture.iranian:11371 soc.culture.pakistan:19412
From: hyder@cs.utexas.edu (Syed Irfan Hyder)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Guilty unless proven innocent (Was: US insists Pakistan proves its innocense)
Date: 10 Jan 93 19:16:53 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: pageboy.cs.utexas.edu

In article <1993Jan9.183119.11643@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mtaghavi@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Amir Taghavi) writes:
>
:	ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (UPI) -- The United States has given Pakistain 180
:days to prove it is not promoting international terrorism, or else face
:weapons and trade sanctions, a report in Islamabad said Saturday.

A classic example of the double standards practiced by the West.
Third world countries are guilty unless proven innocent!
From: hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Restaurant Review: Azerbaijan Kitchen
Date: 10 Jan 93 16:58:43 GMT
Reply-To: hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU (Brad Hernlem)
Organization: North Carolina State University


A few weeks ago, while in Washington on business, I had the pleasure to
stop in at the Azerbaijan Kitchen. This is a relatively new restaurant
(No more than a year, I think) on Wisconsin Ave. just across the street
and a short way down from the Iranian Interests Section. The proximity
to the Iranian Interests Section gives it great advantage to Kolbeh, for
instance, which is many blocks down the street and a rather long walk
for those who would rather not drive around town while their business at
the IIS is being attended to.

I had the combination "special" which is comprised of Kofteh Tabrizi,
KabAb-e Barreh, and Jujeh KabAb. I found the Kofteh to be rather poor
and I would not recommend it. The Jujeh KabAb, on the other hand, was
VERY good. The KabAb-e Barreh was quite good, as well, but not
exceptional. The prices were moderate (somewhat less than Kolbeh).

The atmosphere was pleasant; the walls were decorated with various
pictures of rural Iran. An Azeri friend of mine, however, was
disappointed to find that there were no Turkish speakers in the place
(indeed our waiter was Palestinian and did not even speak Farsi). The
quality of the Kofteh and this fact bring serious doubts about the
authenticity of this "Azerbaijan" kitchen. In any case, the quality of
the Jujeh KabAb dispelled any care that I had about such trivialities.

Brad Hernlem (hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian