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Son of late shah of Iran waits his turn
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January 03, 2002
USA TODAY
TEHRAN, Iran — As a teenager, Reza
Pahlavi had his very own palace in a royal
compound in north Tehran.
Preserved as a museum by the Islamic
government that overthrew his father, Shah
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in 1979, the
19th-century building has six rooms full of
childhood mementos. There is a drawing of jet
fighters and helicopters the crown prince
made when he was 10, and a piece of the
moon brought back by U.S. astronauts. One
wall of his study is covered with clippings of
Iranian soccer stars from the 1970s.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Growing vision of a secular Iran
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January 04, 2002
Financial Times
Sir, The arrest of Hossein Loqmanian, a parliamentarian in Iran (report, December 31), clearly represents the inherent faults of the theocratic law governing Iran for the past 23 years under the clerical establishment. In effect, the tight boundaries that the nature of this law has set facilitate and lead to severe abuse of the basic human rights of anyone who dares to speak up against the shortcomings of the regime.
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Battling Corruption and Vice
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January 04, 2002
Iran va Jahan
During a Tehran seminar entitled "The Role of Political Parties In Battling
Corruption and Vice", Ali Younessi, the Minister of Information in the
Islamic
Republic, divulged that the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had vowed that this
year
will be the year of consolidation of power. Younessi stressed that this was
only
possible by enforcing the law under the banner of "Battling Corruption and
Vice"
because, as Khamenei had said, "every system of governance has a right to
maintaining
itself in power."
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EXCURSIONS TO THE PAST
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January 04, 2002
In his memoirs Henry Kissinger paid tribute to Iran's Foreign Minister Dr
Abbas Ali Khalatbari
whom he met during a visit to Tehran onNovember 9, 1973 for a meeting with
Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi:
"If the world is indeed destined to become one global village, airports will
serve as their marketplace;
their terminals have banished cultural as well as national characteristics.
The gleaming royal pavillion
at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport could have been the VIP reception area anywhere
in the world - except for the
exquisite Persian carpets that covered its floors. We lingered there for
only a few minutes of greeting by
the distinguished elderly Foreign Minister, Abbas Ali Khalatbari.
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