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From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
Subject: Olympic update - greco-roman wrestling
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:51:34 GMT


Here's an update on how our greco-roman wrestlers are doing in the
olympics after two days of competition:

48kg    Reza Simkhah Asil       1st round: beat Bulgaria 7-5
                                2nd round: beat Hngary 12-1
                                he advances to the third round

52kg    Majid Jahandideh        1st round: lost to Korea 11-2
                                2nd round: lost to Finland 6-0
                                he is eliminated

68kg    Abdollah Chamangoli     1st round: beat Algeria 6-0
                                2nd round: beat Estonia 7-5
                                3rd round: lost to Korea 5-1 
                                4th round: beat Germany 1-0
                                5th round: lost to CIS 8-0
                                he plays Cuba in the 6th round, winner
                                plays someone from the other pool for
                                bronze and loser plays someone from
                                the other pool for the 5th place.

74kg    Ahad Javan Salehi       1st round: lost to Czechoslovakia 4-0
                                2nd round: lost to Turkey 2-0
                                he is eliminated


For the complete wrestling coverage, and coverage on other sports, you
can check rec.sport.olympics or clari.sports.* newsgroups. I will be
posting updates as I receive them.

    --mack

--
For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.
I've got all my life to live, I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive, I will survive.          --Gloria Gaynor
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: saied@cwis.unomaha.edu (Saied*)
Subject: Re: Takhti, a man for all times
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:25:17 GMT

fekr@mips.com (Fekr Nevisandeh) writes:
>This is in response to the person who asked about Takhti and
>in absence of other "better informed" replies I decided to take a

The following is another article about late Takhti,
his championships, and the circumstances of his death.
---------------------------------------------------------------

Takhti, Champion of Freedom,
by: Hassan Nayeb-Agha
The NLA Quarterly
Fall 1988, p. 51

On January 7, 1968, there was a suspicious death in a room in Tehran's
Atlantic Hotel on old Takhti-e-Jamshid Street. The 37-year-old man whose
body was found across from one of the centers of the Shah's dreaded
police, SAVAK, was Gholam-Reza Takhti, the popular wrestling champion.
News of his death shocked Iran.

	The Shah's Propaganda machine announced that Takhti had
committed suicide. But the death of Iran's most beloved sports hero,
who had come to symbolize national unity and resistance against the
Shah, was to suspicious, and few believed the claim.

	Born in 1931 in a poor neighborhood in south Tehran, Takhti was
an employee of the government-run railroad. In 1956 at the Melbourne
Olympic, he won his first gold medal and hoisted the Iranian flag. In
1958 at the Asian Olympic in Japan, and in 1961 at the world wrestling
championships, he again won gold medals. In the 1962 World Tournament in
the U.S., he won a silver medal and his fame surpassed the boundaries of
Iran.

	But even when Takhti returned home empty-handed, he was warmly
greeted  by the people, for they most valued his views and his high
human spirit. Everyone knew that Takhti opposed the Shah and would not
allow himself to be used as a propaganda tool in the darkest years of
dictatorship.,

	Takhti had become a symbol of dignity and resistance, and was
given an appropriate funeral procession. His memorial service, which
turned into the largest political demonstration of the years 1966-67, was
attended by residents of south Tehran and college intellectuals alike.

	The role Takhti played in his life and death has its roots in
Iranian mythology. He was a link between the epics of the past the
heroism of today and tomorrow. In safeguarding and continuing the
tradition of Iran's legendary champion, who always sided with the people
against the kings and dictators, group after group of Iranian national
sports heroes, including Filabi [Ghorbani, Habib Khabiri, Asghar Adibi,
Hassan Nayeb-Agha, Bahram Maveddat, several members of the Iranian
athlete of the 1986 Asian games in Seoul ...], have joined the National
Council of Resistance and the Mojahedin.

	This tradition has always cost dearly. Following in Takhti's
footsteps, men like Habib Khabiri, captain of the national soccer team;
Houshang Montazerol-Zohour,the national wrestling champion and many
others were executed by the Khomeini regime. [The families of those
athletes who joined the Resistance en mass at the end of the Asian games
in Seoul were arrested and viciously tortured.]

Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: majid@cbnewse.cb.att.com (majid.safavi)
Subject: Trip to Iran (Moafi)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:03:45 GMT
Keywords: Moafi

Friends,

Does anyone know what are  the latest rules, regulation, and prices
for getting a temporary or permanent Moafi. Do you know anybody who
has done it and how long does it take to do it in Iran.
I have been trying to call the consulate in DC, but the phone is always 
busy. So, if you have any information please post it.

ps, Do you know what is the last year that is Moaf? I have heard 1333.


Majid Safavi
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari)
Subject: A suggestion on how to improve athletic skills in some other areas.
Originator: sehari@marge.ecss.iastate.edu
Organization: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:05:28 GMT

---

We have gotten several medals in wrestling, weight lifting and few other areas
in the past Olympics.  However, we have potential for some other areas, as well.
For example, bicycling.  I could bet, I might be able to out speed the 
champion of the bicycling in the Olympic, If I put my mind on it and practice.
After all, I used to bicycle more than 7 Km to my school and back. In some 
cases, I could remember, I was going faster than cars in the Tehran's street.
Off course, I was not the only one, few of my friends back in the high school
we used to out speed the Tehran Busses, just as mater of routine! Not to 
mention this friend of mine who used to out speed motorcycles (Honada 80),
with his ten speed bicycle.  It never occurred to us that one could go
to Olympics for bicycling.

Other areas, such as swimming in the north and the south, running, etc... we 
could win medals as well.

So, here is my suggestion.  We might sponsor games with worth while prizes,
and glorify the winners, or create quota for athletic achievement in our
universities.  That is, say the top 5 swimmers in the national championship
games could be admitted to university, as PE majors.  The national 
championships could be televised on TV every year. Such National Championship
games, could be divide into four levels primary school, middle school, 
high school, and everybody else. The same thing could be down for bicycling,
running, football, wrestling, weight lifting, and other areas.  We might even
do it two times a year for each sport.  Not only, this would provide a 
source of entertainment for the people, but also it would increase our chance
for medals in international games, such as Olympic.

                          With highest regards,
                               Babak   Sehari.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: salimi@cs.ucf.edu (Aboalfazl Salimi (Abi))
Subject: An International Conference in Shiraz
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:08:33 GMT

SalAm bar hamegee,

By any chance, does anyone have any information on a conference that
is to be held in Shiraz sometime next year?  The title of the
conference is "International Congress on Computing Methods in 
Engineering."                 

*** Aboalfazl ***
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: amoojoon@ghahveh.khooneh.mash.yadollAh (Bacheh Morshed)
Subject: mash Ghazanfar's story
Summary: Ghazanfar ghAti kardeh!
Keywords: faith
Organization: naghAl khooneh
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:14:06 GMT


SalAm mardomeh SCI,

Long time no chat; Well, amoo has been sitting here, resting his back against
a "poshti", and learning about religion  from the "ahleh nazar". It's been 
actually very interesting because now amoo has also subscribed to a couple 
other soc.relig.* only to find out that we still have the best record in 
religious discussions.

Let me tell you about a small problem that we have been facing lately. 
Every night mash Ghazanfar(sabzi foroosheh mahal) stops by the ghahveh 
khooneh for his "chAyee-e Akhareh shab" looking tired from work. Now, as you 
all know we watch SCI before closing up so he also sits here to watch the 
nightly program with us. Lately though SCI has been more like a religion 
channel with only one difference; neither side has yet asked for any money 
from the ahAli. 
The significant problem is that mash Ghazanfar being a bit unstable 
in his beliefs has been changing his faith a dozen times during this past 
couple of weeks. As soon as a good argument is presented by one side he 
becomes very optimistic and converts to that religion but sure enough there 
is always a counter argument by the other side so he becomes "do del" and 
"digeh khar biyAr-o bAghAli bAr kon". He not only has been changing the name 
of his sabzi forooshi along with his faith but has also done some so-called 
"pAk sAzi" among his staff accordingly.  Amoo being a good "ham sAyeh" is 
very concerned about the mental health of mash Ghazanfar as well as his poor 
employees who have been fired and hired several times. You think it would be 
possible to help mash Ghazanfar by adding some variety to our topics? 


del-rahm bAsheed,


amoo
From: kambizm@ifi.uio.no
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Re: Anti-Islamic Slogans=
Date: 28 Jul 92 13:18:48 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Originator: kambizm@gyda.ifi.uio.no


Jaber says:

      >       	The Sectarian regime of Iran insists on calling the Criminal
      >	Wahhabis of Arabia as Sunni Muslims. The Criminal Wahhabis are
      >	a sect of their own and has nothing to do with Islam. The 
      >	Khomeist are doing thisd to discredit the Sunni Muslims in their
      >	their typical Manner.

      > The Wahhabis are considered to the rest of Muslims who follow 
      >	the teachings of prophetr Mohammad like criminals. 

      >	The Wahhabis are as criminals as the Ithna Ashre Sect of
      >	Khomeinsism.

You appear to me to be very sectarian yourself.
                                       Kambiz
         
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
Subject: More Olympic news
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 23:04:01 GMT


Here's a few more news items regarding our atheletes in Barcelona. For
a complete coverage of these and other sports, you can check
rec.sport.olympics and clari.sports.* newsgroups.


BOXING
-------
    Super heavyweight
        First Round: Iraj Kia Rostami lost to Netherlands 9-5

CYCLING
-------
    Men's individual 1000m time trial
        ------------------------------------------------
         1. Jose Pernian            ESP     1:03.342 min
         2. Shane kelly             AUS     1:04.288
         3. Erin Hartwell           USA     1:04.753
            [...]
        28. Mohammad Reza Banna     IRN     1:11.036
        ------------------------------------------------
       
    Men's individual 4000m - pursuit - 1st round
        ------------------------------------------------
         1. Christopher Boardman    GBR     4:27.357 min
         2. Jens Lehmann            GER     4:30.054
         3. Mark Kingsland          AUS     4:31.033
            [...]
        25. Mehrdad Tarshiz         IRN     5:08.184


Enjoy the games!

    --mack

--
For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.
I've got all my life to live, I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive, I will survive.          --Gloria Gaynor
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: umgopal@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sidique Hussein)
Subject: Electronic Matchmaker
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 03:51:14 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.164137.19848@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> aref@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Modda'iyeh har hAzer va Vakileh har ghAyeb) writes:
>Yo, Sidique jAn (umgopal@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sidique Hussein)) 
>
>This bud's for you. Unfortunately they are not necessarily good muslim
>girls. And you have competition. Many more than one Ahmad AghA. Bryan AghA,
>Michael jAn, Gary joon, etc..... hehehehe! :-)
>
>Asghar AghA

--> The only winner in your type of competition is the person who wants
    to spend the most money.

Asghar AghA joon,

Sidique has been very cranky lately and I know why, he is
in heat and needs immediate attention. I am willing to withdraw
for now to increase his chances, I am actually doing this for
me, cuz when he gets cranky, he cusses me out. 

BTW, say hi to Shamsi khAnoom.

Ahmad aghA

--> Don't worry about me getting cranky rubberman, you might tear.

Sidique Hussein.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: aref@Tehran.Stanford.EDU (Modda'iyeh har hAzer va Vakileh har ghAyeb)
Subject: Re: Electronic Matchmaker
Organization: Nada 
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:41:37 GMT

In article <62630@cup.portal.com> Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com writes:
>Women, I am about to launch a free electronic matching service on 
>Usenet.  Unfortunately, more guys than gals have expressed an 
>interest so far.  If you would like to see the fourth draft of my 
>questionnaire so we can alter it to also fit women's needs as well as 
>men's, either send me mail or look at the copy I posted in 
>alt.personals.
> 
>This service is serious and I already have 119 men and 86 women signed
>up so far.  The site of the service has already been selected and
>programmers are being lined up for the construction of the listserver.
> 
>I should point out that this questionnaire really, really, really, 
>needs some more input on CULTURES.  I need some questions to make sure
>that matches are compatible culturally.
> 
>                                                            Eric Klien
> 


Yo, Sidique jAn (umgopal@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Sidique Hussein)) 

This bud's for you. Unfortunately they are not necessarily good muslim
girls. And you have competition. Many more than one Ahmad AghA. Bryan AghA,
Michael jAn, Gary joon, etc..... hehehehe! :-)

Asghar AghA


Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: minhaszt@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Zafar T Minhas)
Subject: Re: What to read at sci
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 03:54:46 GMT


[confusing stuff deleted]

>Anyways, Mr. Z advised me that I should make sure to sign up the voices of
>moral majority at SCI in order to complete the mission of taking over this
>forum.  It is going to be a hectic job for me, but I have got to do it.
>
>==========================  for Zafar only  ================================
>Please, please, please, Zafar have mercy on me.  Please do not reveal to 
>everyone that I have involved myself with the British Intelligent Service
>and hence it is Baha'u'llah who has contradicted himself because while he
>prohibitted Baha'is from getting involved in the politics,  Hooshyar did it.
>Please, it was Hooshayr and not the Baha'i Faith.
>=========================================================================

>Hooshyar F. Naraghi
>bavafa@netcom.com
>(415) 324-1055


[other stuff deleted]

hey man, what the hell are you talking about?

sincerely

zafar
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: bahram@somewhere.in.heaven.edu
Subject: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam XXXI
Organization: Mars People International.
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:21:02 GMT

	Edward FitzGerald's Translation.
	Modified and added version which is the Text of
	the Fifth Edition (1889):


			46

	 And fear not lest Existence closing your
	Account, and mine, should know the like no more;
	The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd
	Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.

			47

	When You and I behind the Veil are past,
	Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last,
	Which of our Coming and Departure heeds
	As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.

			48

	A Moment's Halt---a momentary taste
	Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste---
	And Lo!---the phantom Caravan has reach'd
	The NOTHING it set out from---oh, make haste!

			49

	Would you that spangle of Existence spend
	About THE SECRET---quick about it, Friend!
	A Hair perhaps divides the False and True---
	And upon what, prithee, may life depend?
	

			*****




Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: bes@cco.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi)
Subject: Re: The Baha'i Faith in Iran (was: Is U.S. Guilty?)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:23:41 GMT

In article <TOWFIQ.92Jul21184142@nighthawk.clearpoint.com> towfiq@nighthawk.clearpoint.com (Mark Towfiq) writes:


>bes> I refuted this by saying that we have people who advocated
>bes> women's rights and who have attacked the traditional Iranian
>bes> oppression of women, yet not only they weren't opposed, but they
>bes> formed the exponents of the Islamic movement in Iran.
>
>  However, what have been the effrects of these advocates?  What are
>the results?  Are the women any more emancipated?  Are they more
>educated as a result of these "exponents of the Islamic movement in
>Iran"?  Compare the status of women in the society shaped by these
>exponents to that of women in the Baha'i community, and tell me, where
>are women more equal?  Then, imagine if all of the women in Iran were
>so well-educated as the Baha'i women, and imagine what that might do
>to position and status of the clergy.  Now one may see the how
>Baha'u'llah's teaching of the equality of men and women is one of the
>main reasons the Baha'i community is persecuted in Iran.

Oh, Dr. Shariati and Aytatollah Muttahhari have had a tremendous impact
in the thinking (and therefore actions) of Muslims, not only about this 
issue, but about Islam in general.  However, even if they had had *no* 
effect at all, it doesn't make any difference in the argument
I was presenting in refutation of your claim.  The issue you just brought
up is not relevant and my refutation still stands firmly.

Behnam Sadeghi


Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: ebrahim@ee.umanitoba.ca (Mohamad Ebrahimi)
Subject: Re: Khomeini was an agent for Saddam
Organization: Elect & Comp Engineering, U of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 18:47:26 GMT


     In article: <3646@keele.keele.ac.uk> phd21@seq1.keele.ac.uk (A. Jaber)
writes:

>>From: bes@cco.caltech.edu (Behnam Sadeghi)
>
>>Imam Khomeini was also the "Guest of Honour" of Iraq.  This proves without
>>a shaddow of doubt that he was an agent of Saddam Hussain.   

>	Saddam used him against the Shah. So he was foolish to take
>	refuge in Iraq. If he was really revolutionary he would have
>	stayed in Iran and not to go to the enemies of Iran like 
>	Iraq and France where the CIA was looking after him. 


      Nobody expects this guy to know a shred of piece about reality, in
any field. Late Imam Khomeini was expled from Iran by Shah's regime in 1964
because of his serious oposition against relations of Shah with Israel, and
giving the right of Capitolation(correct word?) to Americans. Only people
like you might think that an exilee has a choice. Also, when in 1966, Imam
Khomeini left Turkey toward Iraq, Sadam Hussein was not anybody. From 1979
he took over Iraqi government by removing Hassan Al-Bakr and become the
protector of west and Israel interests in the region.

>A Jaber


Mohammad
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
From: bai@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Baback A. Izadi)
Subject: Re: Fuzzy Logic
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Electrical Engineering
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 19:40:50 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.044230.13899@u.washington.edu> payman@hardy.u.washington.edu (Payman Arabshahi) writes:
>In article <1273@newsserver.cs.uwindsor.ca> 
>tarokh@server.uwindsor.ca (TAROKH VAHID) writes:
>>
>>I have checked the original paper of Dr. Asker Lotfi Zadeh and
>>I can assure you that the creator of Fuzzy Logics is not Iranian. 
>>
>>                 Vahid
>
>Well my friend I suggest you double and triple check your 
>sources on this.  Dr. Lotfi A. Zadeh was born of Iranian
>parents (jounalists at the time serving in the former
>Soviet Union), and has his Bachelor of Science Degree in
>Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran, 
>obtained in the 1940's.   He is a citizen of Iran and
>the United States.  I have personally talked to him and
>find him a true gentleman as well as a distinguished
>
In the biography of one of his papers, he claims to be born
in Russia and does not mention Iran at all. It does say that
he got his B.S. from Tehran University (No mention of Iran).
It seems to me that he does not want to be associated with
Iran for whatever reason. 

It is worth mentioning that he is also the creator of
Z-transform.  

>He is a credit to Iran and the world.
>
I tend to disagree about the Iran part. It is truly sad that
our scientist can only flourish in a foreign country.

>Cordially
>
>Payman

Baback
From: nader@math.chalmers.se (Nader Tajvidi)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: test
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:51:57 GMT
Distribution: soc.culture.iranian
Organization: Mathematics Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

It is just a test.
From: bashir@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (Noushin Bashir)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian
Subject: Updates on Iran's standing in Olympics games
Keywords: sports
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:57:08 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Buffalo/Comp Sci
Originator: bashir@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU

I found the following info in 'clarinet.sport.olympics'. 


		Sunday		 July 26, 1992


Boxing
------
Middleweight -- First Round: 
	Arkom Chenglai, Thailand, def. Yusef Khateri, Iran, 13-7.


Men's Team Road Race 
--------------------
1) Germany, (Bernd Dittert, Christian Meyer, Uwe Peschel, Michael
Rich), 2 hours, 01 minute 39 seconds. 
2) Italy, 2:02:39
3) France, 2:05:25
...
21) Iran, 2:24:44
...
29) Central African Republic, 2:49:28
-- 
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we
ought to control our thoughts.
						- Charles Darwin
From: habibi@tasman.cc.utas.edu.au (Daryoush Habibi)
Subject: Awards for discussions on Baha'i Faith !!!
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:11:03 GMT

Hi to all my countrymen : citizens of the World,

In the presence of all of you, I would like to award a QUALITY GOLD MEDAL
and a PATIENCE GOLD MEDAL to Kamran Hakim, for the top articles that he
has forwarded on various topics about Baha'i Faith, all of which were
very well documented with references and exact quotations.

As a Baha'i, I would also like to thank Farzin Mokhtarian and Behnam Sadeghi
for helping the advancement of the Baha'i Faith.

And at the end, I have a short message for Mr. A Jaber : Your articles
on this topic and other topics aren't worth a penny. You are the main 
reason I awarded Patience Gold Medal to Kamran Hakim. In response
to characters like you, people should stick to the persian proverb:

``javAbe ablahAn khAmooshist''  (The answer to the foolish is silence..)

Have a nice time Mr. A. Jaber,

Best regards,

--
===========================================================================
Daryoush Habibi
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
University of Tasmania                  Voice: +61 02 202137 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.iranian