[？] 伊朗總統阿馬丁加德給小布希的信（＊斷頭資訊＊）
你若不來我怎敢老去
伊朗總統真的是好樣的 (Y)
衝著這封信
非得找機會去伊朗旅遊不可 :-)
快去快去，趁伊朗還沒被觀光文化變調之前快去
你會喜歡伊朗的。
衝著這封信
非得找機會去伊朗旅遊不可 :-)
快去快去，趁伊朗還沒被觀光文化變調之前快去
你會喜歡伊朗的。
女漢子不美不萌照樣拽
真是感人肺腑的一封信
可是布希能聽進去嗎
美國總統的權利如此龐大
資源如此豐富
美國的影響力大到可以維護中東地區的和平
真誠的希望 世界和平
:-) 我也想去更多的中東國家旅行
可是布希能聽進去嗎
美國總統的權利如此龐大
資源如此豐富
美國的影響力大到可以維護中東地區的和平
真誠的希望 世界和平
:-) 我也想去更多的中東國家旅行
眉眼帶笑
大概是 1998 年，基督教科學箴言報刊了一篇伊朗猶太人的報導。他們是遭受不公平待遇，但是絕對可以忍受。除了種族摩擦以外，他們沒受到迫害。但是以色列的法律讓世界各地的猶太人都可以回歸以色列，他們可以得到政府補貼，送去巴勒斯坦人的土地。代價是誰付的？以色列得到美國政府補貼，土地是搶巴勒斯坦人的。
因為伊朗不算有錢，所以每個種族在伊朗的生活都一樣不怎麼好。很多伊朗猶太人就選擇回歸「祖國」，實際上是去當佔領巴勒斯坦土地的宗教狂熱份子。剩下的伊朗猶太人在伊朗因為人數變少，就越來越不容易得到好生活，所以更多人移民到以色列，剩下的猶太人等於是被自己的同胞拋棄。
換成現在看紐約時報的讀者投書，三天兩頭是美國猶太人團體的鼓吹暴力。紐約時報已經算是立場勉強不太偏頗的報紙，其他的報紙跟 FOX News 只有更不像話的言論。
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/02/03/intl/intl.3.html
February 03, 1998 edition
Jews in Iran Describe a Life of Freedom Despite Anti-Israel Actions by Tehran
Michael Theodoulou, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
TEHRAN, IRAN—
One of the most striking of many murals in Iran's capital, Tehran, is a towering portrait of Fathi Shkaki, a leader of the militant Palestinian group, Islamic Jihad. He was assassinated by Israeli agents in 1995 after he masterminded a series of suicide bombings against Jewish civilians.
A slogan beneath his face hails him as a hero of the Islamic revolution in Palestine.
Yet, stroll a little farther along Palestine Street and you come to the Abrishami Synagogue, the biggest of 23 synagogues in Tehran. It is regularly attended by some 1,000 worshippers.
It comes as a surprise to many visitors to discover that Iran, a country so hostile to Israel and with a reputation for intolerance, is home to a small but vibrant Jewish community that is an officially recognized religious minority under Iran's 1979 Islamic Constitution.
"[Ayatollah Ruhollah] Khomeini didn't mix up our community with Israel and Zionism - he saw us as Iranians," says Haroun Yashyaei, a film producer and chairman of the Central Jewish Community in Iran. Like Iran's Armenian Christians, Jews are tolerated as "people of the book" and allowed to practice their religion freely, provided they do not proselytize.
They elect their own deputy to the 270-seat Parliament and enjoy certain rights of self-administration. Jewish burial and divorce laws are accepted by Islamic courts. Jews are conscripted into the Army.
"We are one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world," Mr. Yashyaei says. "When Muslims came to Iran, we had already been here for centuries."
"Take it from me, the Jewish community here faces no difficulties. If some people left after the revolution, maybe it's because they were scared," says Farangis Hassidim, a forceful but good-humored woman who is charge of the only Jewish hospital in Iran. She adds: "Our position here is not as bad as people abroad may think. We practice our religion freely, we have all our festivals, we have our own schools and kindergartens."
For her, the well-equipped hospital in central Tehran is a model of religious harmony. "We have about 200 staff, 30 percent of them Jewish," she says. "These days, I'd say about 5 percent of our patients are Jewish, the rest are Muslims." A sign outside the hospital reads in Hebrew: "Love thy neighbor as thyself."
Nevertheless, many Jews emigrated after the 1979 Islamic revolution to the United States, the favored destination, and to Israel. In just under two decades, their numbers in Iran have dwindled from 100,000 to about 40,000, 25,000 of them in Tehran.
The shah, overthrown in 1979, was on good terms with the Jewish state; opposition to it was a cornerstone of Khomeini's revolution.
A tight-knit community
Like other minorities, many Iranian Jews feared an uncertain future, although their religious rights were enshrined in the Constitution. Nevertheless, Iran's Jewish community remains the largest in the Middle East outside of Israel, and human rights activists confirm that members are not persecuted because of their religion.
Since the Islamic revolution, the Jewish community has become more tight-knit and devout, according to worshippers at the Abrishami Synagogue.
After prayers, there is a festive atmosphere as families, greeting each other with the Sabbath greeting "Shabbat Shalom," spill out into the courtyard. Savory snacks are handed out as families share gossip and children dart up and down the stairs playing tag. A small portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini is painted on the wall of the stairwell.
Privately, there are grumbles about discrimination, much of it of a social or bureaucratic nature. Some complain it is impossible for Jews to get senior positions in Iran Air, the national airline, or in the national oil company. A woman teacher says she has been passed by for promotion several times because she is Jewish and now hopes to emigrate to Los Angeles. A car-parts dealer says Jews have to wait much longer for travel documents and exit visas.
The most pressing complaint is that, despite many petitions to parliament, Jewish schools must open on Saturdays, the Jewish Sabbath. Like so many other Iranians, those at the Abrishami synagogue are relying on the new president, Mohamad Khatami, to support them.
"He's a kind man; let's hope he can help us with this schools question," says the parts dealer.
Jews also hope for a genuine Middle East peace settlement that would enable a more moderate Iran to recognize Israel, where many Iranian Jews have relatives. That clearly is a long way off, despite hints over the weekend of some kind of people-to-people dialogue. Even Mr. Khatami, with his reputation as a relative moderate, called Israel a "racist, terrorist state" in a recent interview on CNN television.
Contacts with the Jewish state are banned, although some visit through third countries, while mail is usually routed through London.
Why leave?
At an antiques shop in central Tehran, Isaac, the elderly owner, says many Jews who once owned shops along the broad, bustling avenue have left in the past 20 years.
He has not seen his sister since she emigrated to Israel 16 years ago, but he has no plans to leave.
"The Jewish community has been here for centuries, and this shop has been in the family for more than 50 years," he says, reeling off the famous customers who have visited. "Gen. [Charles] de Gaulle was here.
"But look at this," he adds, brandishing an old black-and-white photograph of himself with his arm around curvaceous 1950s film star Gina Lollobrigida, who sports a beehive hairdo.
"Really, it's OK here, and it's home," he says.
因為伊朗不算有錢，所以每個種族在伊朗的生活都一樣不怎麼好。很多伊朗猶太人就選擇回歸「祖國」，實際上是去當佔領巴勒斯坦土地的宗教狂熱份子。剩下的伊朗猶太人在伊朗因為人數變少，就越來越不容易得到好生活，所以更多人移民到以色列，剩下的猶太人等於是被自己的同胞拋棄。
換成現在看紐約時報的讀者投書，三天兩頭是美國猶太人團體的鼓吹暴力。紐約時報已經算是立場勉強不太偏頗的報紙，其他的報紙跟 FOX News 只有更不像話的言論。
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/02/03/intl/intl.3.html
February 03, 1998 edition
Jews in Iran Describe a Life of Freedom Despite Anti-Israel Actions by Tehran
Michael Theodoulou, Special to The Christian Science Monitor
TEHRAN, IRAN—
One of the most striking of many murals in Iran's capital, Tehran, is a towering portrait of Fathi Shkaki, a leader of the militant Palestinian group, Islamic Jihad. He was assassinated by Israeli agents in 1995 after he masterminded a series of suicide bombings against Jewish civilians.
A slogan beneath his face hails him as a hero of the Islamic revolution in Palestine.
Yet, stroll a little farther along Palestine Street and you come to the Abrishami Synagogue, the biggest of 23 synagogues in Tehran. It is regularly attended by some 1,000 worshippers.
It comes as a surprise to many visitors to discover that Iran, a country so hostile to Israel and with a reputation for intolerance, is home to a small but vibrant Jewish community that is an officially recognized religious minority under Iran's 1979 Islamic Constitution.
"[Ayatollah Ruhollah] Khomeini didn't mix up our community with Israel and Zionism - he saw us as Iranians," says Haroun Yashyaei, a film producer and chairman of the Central Jewish Community in Iran. Like Iran's Armenian Christians, Jews are tolerated as "people of the book" and allowed to practice their religion freely, provided they do not proselytize.
They elect their own deputy to the 270-seat Parliament and enjoy certain rights of self-administration. Jewish burial and divorce laws are accepted by Islamic courts. Jews are conscripted into the Army.
"We are one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world," Mr. Yashyaei says. "When Muslims came to Iran, we had already been here for centuries."
"Take it from me, the Jewish community here faces no difficulties. If some people left after the revolution, maybe it's because they were scared," says Farangis Hassidim, a forceful but good-humored woman who is charge of the only Jewish hospital in Iran. She adds: "Our position here is not as bad as people abroad may think. We practice our religion freely, we have all our festivals, we have our own schools and kindergartens."
For her, the well-equipped hospital in central Tehran is a model of religious harmony. "We have about 200 staff, 30 percent of them Jewish," she says. "These days, I'd say about 5 percent of our patients are Jewish, the rest are Muslims." A sign outside the hospital reads in Hebrew: "Love thy neighbor as thyself."
Nevertheless, many Jews emigrated after the 1979 Islamic revolution to the United States, the favored destination, and to Israel. In just under two decades, their numbers in Iran have dwindled from 100,000 to about 40,000, 25,000 of them in Tehran.
The shah, overthrown in 1979, was on good terms with the Jewish state; opposition to it was a cornerstone of Khomeini's revolution.
A tight-knit community
Like other minorities, many Iranian Jews feared an uncertain future, although their religious rights were enshrined in the Constitution. Nevertheless, Iran's Jewish community remains the largest in the Middle East outside of Israel, and human rights activists confirm that members are not persecuted because of their religion.
Since the Islamic revolution, the Jewish community has become more tight-knit and devout, according to worshippers at the Abrishami Synagogue.
After prayers, there is a festive atmosphere as families, greeting each other with the Sabbath greeting "Shabbat Shalom," spill out into the courtyard. Savory snacks are handed out as families share gossip and children dart up and down the stairs playing tag. A small portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini is painted on the wall of the stairwell.
Privately, there are grumbles about discrimination, much of it of a social or bureaucratic nature. Some complain it is impossible for Jews to get senior positions in Iran Air, the national airline, or in the national oil company. A woman teacher says she has been passed by for promotion several times because she is Jewish and now hopes to emigrate to Los Angeles. A car-parts dealer says Jews have to wait much longer for travel documents and exit visas.
The most pressing complaint is that, despite many petitions to parliament, Jewish schools must open on Saturdays, the Jewish Sabbath. Like so many other Iranians, those at the Abrishami synagogue are relying on the new president, Mohamad Khatami, to support them.
"He's a kind man; let's hope he can help us with this schools question," says the parts dealer.
Jews also hope for a genuine Middle East peace settlement that would enable a more moderate Iran to recognize Israel, where many Iranian Jews have relatives. That clearly is a long way off, despite hints over the weekend of some kind of people-to-people dialogue. Even Mr. Khatami, with his reputation as a relative moderate, called Israel a "racist, terrorist state" in a recent interview on CNN television.
Contacts with the Jewish state are banned, although some visit through third countries, while mail is usually routed through London.
Why leave?
At an antiques shop in central Tehran, Isaac, the elderly owner, says many Jews who once owned shops along the broad, bustling avenue have left in the past 20 years.
He has not seen his sister since she emigrated to Israel 16 years ago, but he has no plans to leave.
"The Jewish community has been here for centuries, and this shop has been in the family for more than 50 years," he says, reeling off the famous customers who have visited. "Gen. [Charles] de Gaulle was here.
"But look at this," he adds, brandishing an old black-and-white photograph of himself with his arm around curvaceous 1950s film star Gina Lollobrigida, who sports a beehive hairdo.
"Really, it's OK here, and it's home," he says.