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رويارويی نسل تازه مداحان با سوگواران سنتی

2005-02-19T21:05:00.000-08:00

رويارويی نسل تازه مداحان با سوگواران سنتی

Kuwait, DPR Korea draw WC warm up

2005-02-04T02:17:00.000-08:00

Kuwait, DPR Korea draw WC warm up
DALIAN – Germany 2006 aspirants Kuwait and DPR Korea played out a goalless draw in the north east port city of Dalian on Wednesday night as the two sides geared up for the final round of Asian qualifiers, which kick-off next week.

Neither side created much in the way of chances although 20-year-old Al Qadisiya forward Bader Al Mutwa came close to breaking the deadlock 15 minutes before the interval.

The game was head coach Slobodan Pavkovic’s third in charge since replacing Mohammed Ibrahim and the draw ensured that the Serb is yet to taste defeat during his tenure, having beaten Syria (3-2) and drawing with Norway (1-1) in Kuwait’s two previous matches.

The 41-year-old Serb rang in the changes in the second half against the North Koreans, making six substitutions as he fine tuned his squad ahead of their Group A opener against Korea Republic in Seoul on Wednesday, February 9.

DPR Korea are also in action that night when they begin their Group B campaign against Asian champions Japan in Saitama.

Bahrain scored a morale-boosting win over Lebanon

2005-02-04T02:13:00.000-08:00

DOHA – Bahrain geared up for next week’s showdown with Iran in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers with a 2-1 victory over Lebanon on Wednesday.

In a match played in the Qatari capital of Doha, where the Bahraini team have been holding a preparation camp, it was the Asian Cup semi-finalists who went ahead in the opening half through midfielder Rashed Jamal.

Striker Husain Ali, who plays for Qatar league side Al Rayyan then made it 2-0 for Bahrain before Lebanon pulled a goal back late in the first half through attacking midfielder Abbas Atwi.

With Bahrain coach Srecko Juricic opting to utilize several of his substitutes in the second period, there were no additions to the score as the Bahrainis scored a morale boosting victory in the build-up to their important Group B clash with Iran in Manama next Wednesday.

Bahrain’s 3-1 win against the Iranians at the same venue four years ago denied their opponents a spot in the 2002 World Cup. The Persians enjoyed a measure of revenge though at last year’s Asian Cup when they beat Bahrain 4-2 in Beijing in the third place playoff.

The top two teams in Group B of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers, which also includes Asian Cup champions Japan and dark horses DPR Korea will progress to the World Cup finals while the third placed side will go into a playoff for an additional spot in Germany 2006.

Nakata will not play against DPR Korea next week

2005-02-04T02:07:00.000-08:00

TOKYO – Two-time Asian Player of the Year Hidetoshi Nakata has been left out of the Japan squad for next Wednesday’s opening Group B match against DPR Korea in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers.

The 28-year-old skippered his national team during the first round of the World Cup qualifiers early last year but has not played in an international match since last March due to injury. A groin injury ruled him out of the Asian Cup in July and August, which Japan retained with a 3-1 win over hosts China.

While the Fiorentina midfielder has since returned to action, Japan coach Zico feels that he has yet to regain his form and opted not to include him in the team that he name Thursday to play against the North Koreans at Saitama Stadium.

“For the important first game to qualify for the World Cup finals in Germany, I have selected the best members under the current situation,” said the Brazilian.

“We want to go to the game, united as the team with aggressive spirit.”

Feyenoord midfielder Shinji Ono has also been left out as he is still recovering from recent ankle surgery, but midfielder Shunsuke Nakamura of Serie A club Reggina, striker Naohiro Takahara of German Bundesliga outfit Hamburg and defender Koji Nakata, who has just signed with French giants Marseille are included in Zico’s squad.

Japan squad
Goalkeepers: Yoichi Doi (FC Tokyo), Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (Jubilo Iwata), Seigo Narazaki (Nagoya Grampus Eight)

Defenders: Atsuhiro Miura (Vissel Kobe), Makoto Tanaka (Jubilo), Takayuki Chano (Jubilo), Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (Gamba Osaka), Naoki Matsuda (Yokohama F Marinos), Alessandro Santos (Urawa Reds), Yuji Nakazawa (Marinos), Keisuke Tsuboi (Urawa), Akira Kaji (FC Tokyo)

Midfielders: Toshiya Fujita (Jubilo), Takashi Fukunishi (Jubilo), Shunsuke Nakamura (Reggina/ITA), Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers), Masashi Motoyama (Kashima), Koji Nakata (Marseille/FRA), Yasuhito Endo (Gamba), Yuki Abe (JEF United Ichihara)

Forwards: Takayuki Suzuki (Kashima), Naohiro Takahara (SV Hamburg/GER), Keiji Tamada (Kashiwa Reysol), Masashi Oguro (Gamba)

SOME OF PERSIAN GIRLS !!!

2005-01-16T09:14:00.000-08:00

What happened to Iranian young generation ?
In the recent years in Iran ,One problem has raised up,This problem beside the other problems has peresented as a bump in younghood way .

In the cursed culture of Iranian , Dowry is the main key for marriage.Dowries have a long history in Iran , Afghanistan, India , Africa and the other third-world countries .
In the other word the philosophy of dowry was a money of defloration the girls !!! And it was accepted common practice in the damned Arabic countries . But ,why Iranian and Arabian must be the same ?!!!

Now a days in Iran , First key of marriage is dowry , All of the narrow minded and bigoted believe that dowry is good godparent for the women , Iranian girls the same as a prostitute in western countries have different fees ! And this fee has so-called dowry .

In Iran the girls are limited in every connection to boys ,because the parents of the girls avoid the girls to talk with boys !
The parents believe that during the relation between the girls and boy certainly sex will be happend , and the girls have not any kind of freedom in sex intercourse . Sex intercourse only after marriage !!!

Men marriage just for sex , which one is correct sex for marriage or marriage for sex !!!

Who cares about this problem about new young generation of Iran , they are limited to choose wife or husband and sex partner , but the father of girls told if you want to have sex intercourse with my girl you must pay over 100 gold-coins (fee of per-gold-coin is $125)

ARABIAN GULF AND OMMAN SEA ! HOW TELLS PERSIAN GULF !!!

2005-01-11T07:29:00.000-08:00

The image of oil tankers passing through the Straits of Hormuz, into the Indian Ocean, and so to the rest of the world seems quite modern, dating back only some fifty years or so. It is surprising to realize, then, that it is actually just the latest aspect of a tradition of maritime trade in the region which stretches back some 7,000 years. "In fact, the South and Southwest Asian regions, and the Gulf area in particular, have perhaps the richest and longest running seafaring tradition of any world region."1

The Arabian Gulf, or al-Khaleej al-Arabi in Arabic, lies between the Arabian Peninsula and Southwest Asia. It is connected by the Straits of Hormuz to the Arabian Sea, the northwest part of the Indian Ocean. The Gulf is some 615 miles long and has a maximum width of 210 miles, with an area of about 93,000 square miles. It is a shallow body of water, with a maximum depth of 360 feet, and due to hydrological conditions does not develop high waves. Despite high temperatures and humidity, the Gulf rarely sees storms and gale-force winds, and therefore is an easily navigable body of water, unlike its neighbour, the Red Sea. For several millennia these two bodies of water served as primary routes of interaction between the great civilizations of the East and the Mediterranean.

Mesopotamia is the area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers at the northwest end of the Arabian Gulf. It is likely that in prehistoric times the waters of the Gulf were higher. As they receded, the land was left covered in rich, highly fertile sediment which attracted settlers to the region. This region formed one end of the Fertile Crescent, an area of fertile land stretching from the northern end of the Arabian Gulf in a semi-circle northwest to the Nile River delta. As one writer describes it, the "Fertile Crescent was to be for most of historic times a great crucible of cultures, a zone not only of settlement but of transit, through which poured an ebb and flow of people and ideas. In the end this produced a fertile interchange of institutions, language and belief from which stems much of human thought and custom even today."2

The first known urban civilizations arose in Mesopotamia. There is archaeological evidence of urban centres around 5,000 BCE at sites such as 'Ubaid, Uruk and Kish. In the United Arab Emirates and Oman, archaeological surveys have also revealed settlements as old as 7,000 years. In these settlements, distinctive black pottery from 'Ubaid has been discovered; indicating that trade throughout the Gulf had been established by that time.

It is difficult to know why the Mesopotamians and their neighbours took to the sea to trade. Some suggest that despite its agricultural fertility, Mesopotamia lacked other resources such as metal, wood and stone. If they had been unable to obtain these by trade overland, it may have driven them to sail their boats down the rivers and out into the Gulf in search of other sources. Written records from Sumer dated around 3,000 BCE mention a place called Magan, from where copper was obtained; possibly this was a culture in the southeastern Arabian Peninsula. Later trade records from the Akkadian period, around 2000 BCE, mention Dilmun (perhaps modern Bahrain) as an entrepôt between Mesopotamia, Magan and Meluhha (the Akkadian name for the Indus valley region). Dilmun itself may be a much older civilization, as archaeological evidence from Bahrain suggests that it dates back to the beginning of the 3rd millennium BCE. Thus, there is plenty of archaeological evidence of trade between Mesopotamia, the Gulf and the Indus valley, including findings of special seals from each region, which would have been attached to bundles of trade goods, in the other regions.

A TRADITIONAL BOAT

One question that has been raised, and answered in a unique way, is whether the ancient Mesopotamians would have had the maritime technology to reach the Indus valley and other places in the Indian Ocean. In 1977, the Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl set out to prove that this was indeed possible. Using the oldest Sumerian depictions of their sailing craft, he built a replica from local reeds found in the Tigris-Euphrates delta. In this ship, named Tigris, he and eleven others sailed out into the Gulf, to Bahrain. From there they sailed to Oman, then Pakistan, then finally back to Aden. They had hoped to be able to sail up the Red Sea to the Suez Canal, but a regional conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia ended their voyage at Djibouti. They had travelled for five months and 4,200 miles, and had shown that a ship constructed along the lines of ancient Sumerian design could certainly travel the distances involved to trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus valley.

However, it is believed by some that it was the sailors of Magan who came to dominate the trade between Mesopotamia and India some time in the 3rd millennium BCE, acting as middlemen in the shipment of trade goods. Situated at the mouth of the Gulf, they would have been able to intercept other ships, particularly those attempting to sail to the Red Sea and up to Egypt. It was this control, perhaps, which gave Magan its power and wealth, wealth that was shared by Dilmun and other cities on the coastline of the Gulf, such as those found at Umm an-Nar and Dalma off the coast of Abu Dhabi, and at Failaka in Kuwait. It is not clear when the power of Magan finally declined, but it must have been well before the time of the Greeks, as it is not mentioned in their writings.

Another factor that facilitated trade in the Gulf was the construction of roads by the Mesopotamian civilizations northwards to connect the Gulf to the Mediterranean. The first long-distance road came into existence in about 3,500 BCE, running 1,500 miles between the Gulf and the Mediterranean. From 1,200 BCE on, the Assyrians used this road to connect the trading centre of Susa, in present-day Iran, with the Mediterranean ports of Smyrna and Ephesus, in present-day Turkey. They may have traded with the Minoans, a civilization based on the island of Crete. Certainly they carried on extensive trade with the Egyptians and the Phoenicians, who were themselves an advanced seafaring culture with colonies throughout the Mediterranean. There were also roads between Mesopotamia and Egypt, running across the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula, with connections to the trade centres of the interior.

What was being traded through the Gulf in those ancient times? Ancient clay tablets record such goods as herbs and spices, frankincense and myrrh, textiles, gems and jewellery, and ceramics. There is evidence of teak and cedar coming from India. Minerals and metals such as copper from Magan are also noted. The Gulf was also renowned as a source of high quality

PEARLS

pearls, one of the most highly prized jewels of that time. Diving for pearls in the calm waters and shallow depths of the Gulf was an ancient pursuit. In the U.A.E., archaeological sites dating back to the 5th millennium BCE have been found to contain pearls.

By the middle of the 6th century BCE the Achaemenians had established an empire which, at its height, stretched throughout the Near East from the Indus valley to Libya, and north to Macedonia. Thus it controlled all the trade routes to the Mediterranean, both by land and by sea. The Achaemenian kings rebuilt the road from Susa to Sardis, near Ephesus and Smyrna. Our first extended accounts of Arabia and the Gulf come from this time.

Herodotus was a Greek writer who travelled throughout much of the Achaemenid Empire, and described Arabia in his Histories. "Arabia is the last of inhabited lands towards the south, and it is the only country which produces frankincense, myrrh, cassia, cinnamon, and laudanum…Concerning the spices of Arabia let no more be said. The whole country is scented with them, and exhales an odor marvelously sweet."3 It is not clear whether Herodotus actually visited the Arabian Peninsula himself. Some of the stories he recounts suggest that he is only reporting what others had to say.

1- C. Kostman, "In Search of Ancient Seafarers in the Arabian Gulf", Archaeological Research Facility Newsletter, Spring 1995
Vol. 2 No. 2, University of California Berkeley
2- J.M. Roberts, The Pelican History of the World, Penguin Books Ltd., 1981, pg. 62.
3- Herodotus, The Histories, Book III

Face of the week,(Faaegheh Atashin(Googoosh) & AlirReza AmirGhasemy)

2004-12-24T20:20:00.000-08:00

Face of the week,(Faaegheh Atashin(Googoosh) & AlirReza AmirGhasemy)

During this week all of channels, that support from Los Angles people ,presented the pictures from Googoosh and Mehrdaad Asemaany ,that Mehrdaad interviewed with googoosh ,and asked her some determined question.
This programme has broadcasted from "IPN TV" and "Jam-e-Jam TV" , Googoosh has expressed somethings about her background in iran . She said that I was a dress seller!!!
She spock tragically about AliReza AmirGhaasemy ,the manager of "TAPESH TV",Googoosh all of the time of interview with Mehrdaad wished evil on AmirGhasemy .

What Happened to Googoosh ?

When Googoosh was in Iran ,She has invited from somebody who stayed in L.A. AmirGhaasemy was a first man who suppoted Googoosh in the U.S.A. Googoosh claimed that she had not any information about tenors of contract .
AmirGhasemy M.C. of all of Googoosh concert but no-one knows why she annulled that agreement . She has came into view with crying face and has played as a indian actress!

AmirGhasemy in "TAPESH TV" , did honour to Googoosh and he recollected her as a king of periasn pop .AmirGhasemy said that Googoosh for achieving more money and without had any information about law of the U.S.A. She annulled that agreement ,AmirGhasemy added I am just simple M.C. and not more than that she has uttered .

END OF PART 1.

What is PHP?

2004-12-19T13:46:00.001-08:00

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PERSIAN FOOTBALL

2004-12-19T13:46:00.000-08:00

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MILITARY SERVICE

2004-12-17T01:53:00.000-08:00

IN IRAN ALL THE UPPER 18-YEAR-OLD-BOYS IS NECESSARY TO SPEND 2O MONTH AS A MILITARY SERVICE.

PLEASE E-MAIL ME AND GIVE ME YOUR IDEA

Coca-Cola to Launch 3 New Drinks

2004-12-16T11:19:00.000-08:00

Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., the world's largest bottler, plans to launch three new drinks and improve its diet drink business next year.
During a Thursday conference call with analysts, President and Chief Executive Office John R. Alm said the new products are an energy drink called Full Throttle, additional Dasani water flavors, and an unnamed innovation in regular soft drinks that will be announced next year.

Chairman Lowry F. Kline also said the company sees "opportunities" in its portfolio of diet drinks. That will help the company address health and wellness trends in the market, he said.

Also Thursday, the Atlanta-based company said it expects 2004 earnings of $1.21 to $1.23 a share, or $1.26 to $1.28 a share excluding the effect of new concentrate prices in North America. Coca-Cola Enterprises buys concentrates for drinks from The Coca-Cola Co.

Analysts were expecting earnings of $1.28 a share, according to Thomson First Call.

"Regarding 2004, we obviously are not pleased," Kline told analysts.

New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites) listed Coca-Cola Enterprises shares traded midday Thursday at $21.39, up 30 cents, or 1.4 percent.

For 2005, the company said its expects earnings per share in the low to mid-$1.30s. Wall Street had forecast $1.38 a share.

"Next year we see opportunities," Kline said. "We believe we can effectively leverage and reposition our strong diet portfolio."

In Europe, the company will introduce Diet Coke with lime, expand Fanta Light flavors, and "improve consumer awareness of Diet Coke," Alm said.

Advertising in Europe will emphasize that Diet Coke has zero calories, he said, because more than 40 percent of consumers aren't aware of it.

Alm said the company expects operating income growth of 4 percent to 5 percent in 2005.

In North America, he said, the company expects volume growth of 1 percent and revenue growth per case of 4 percent.

In Europe, it estimates volume growth of 4 percent and revenue per case growth of 3 percent.

Kline said the company will benefit from "increased innovation and brand support" from Coca-Cola Co.

Iran-Panama to play friendly

2004-12-15T19:50:00.000-08:00

GREAT TEHRAN– Finally the Panama Football Federation agreed to play a friendly with Iran’s national team in Tehran’s Ariamehr Stadium on Saturday.

Panama is ranked 101st by FIFA at world level. 9 of the Panama squad play for teams in countries such as England, Brazil, Uruguay and Italy.

The team will travel to Tehran on Wednesday with 22 players. Before the game the team is to hold two training sessions on Thursday and Friday.

PERSIAN GULF

2004-12-13T08:00:00.000-08:00

Persian Gulf

arm of the Arabian Sea, 90,000 sq mi (233,100 sq km), between the Arabian peninsula and Iran, extending c.600 mi (970 km) from the Shatt al Arab delta to the Strait of Hormuz, which links it with the Gulf of Oman.

Physical Geography

The Persian Gulf, called the Arabian Gulf by the Arabs, is mostly shallow and has many islands, of which Bahrain is the largest. The gulf is bordered by Oman and the United Arab Emirates to the south, to the west by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to the north by Kuwait and Iraq, and along the entire east coast by Iran. It was generally thought that the gulf had previously extended farther north and that sediment dropped by the Tigris, Euphrates, Karun, and Karkheh rivers filled the northern part of the gulf to create a great delta. But geologic investigations now indicate that the coastline has not moved and that the marshlands of the delta represent a sinking of the earth's crust as the Arabian land block pushes under Iran. The gulf waters have very slow currents and limited tidal range.

History

The Persian Gulf was an important transportation route in antiquity but declined with the fall of Mesopotamia. In succeeding centuries control of the region was contested by Arabs, Persians, Turks, and Western Europeans. In 1853, Britain and the Arab sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf signed the Perpetual Maritime Truce, formalizing the temporary truces of 1820 and 1835. The sheikhs agreed to stop harassing British shipping in the Arabian Sea and to recognize Britain as the dominant power in the gulf. These sheikhdoms thus became known as the Trucial States. An international agreement among the major powers in 1907 placed the gulf in the British sphere of influence.

Although oil was discovered in the gulf in 1908, it was not until the 1930s, when major finds were made, that keen international interest in the region revived. Since World War II the gulf oil fields, among the most productive in the world, have been extensively developed, and modern port facilities have been constructed. Nearly 50% of the world's total oil reserves are estimated to be found in the Persian Gulf. It is also a large fishing source and was once the chief center of the pearling industry. In the late 1960s, following British military withdrawal from the area, the United States and the USSR sought to fill the vacuum. In 1971 the first U.S. military installation in the gulf was established at Bahrain.

The long-standing Arab—Persian conflict in the gulf, combined with the desire of neighboring states for control of large oil reserves, has led to international boundary disputes. Iraq and Iran argued over navigation rights on the Shatt al Arab, through which Iran's main ports and most productive oil fields are reached. Iran and the sheikhdom of Ras al-Khaima contested ownership of the oil-rich islands of Abu Musa and Greater and Lesser Tunb at the entrance to the gulf. Iranian forces occupied these islands in Dec., 1971, infuriating Iraq. The much-contested rights over the Shatt al Arab led Iran and Iraq into an 8-year war in the 1980s (see Iran-Iraq War). In 1984 American and other foreign oil tankers in the gulf were attacked by both Iran and Iraq. The security of Persian Gulf countries was threatened throughout this war.

When Iraq invaded Kuwait in Aug., 1990, the Persian Gulf was once again a background for conflict. International coalition ground forces were stationed in Saudi Arabia and neighboring gulf countries in the Persian Gulf War (1991). Before Iraq was expelled from Kuwait in Feb., 1991, Iraqi soldiers set fire to over 500 Kuwaiti oil wells and dumped millions of barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf, causing an environmental crisis and threatening desalination plants throughout the area. The Persian Gulf's vast oil reserves make the area a continuing source of international tension.

IRAN ZANDY

2004-12-13T07:32:00.002-08:00

FIFA says Zandi can play for Iran: report

Wednesday, December 08, 2004 - ©2004 IranMania.com

LONDON, Dec 8 (IranMania) - The world football’s governing body, FIFA, announced that the Bundesliga-bound Fereydun Zandi, can join the Iranian squad, said a Football Federation official on condition of anonymity, according to IRNA.

He added FIFA said in a meeting that there is no obstacle in the way of Kaiserslautern player and he can play for Iran.

Zandi needed the world body’s agreement as he had already played for Germany’s youth side.

According to the official, the Iranian Football Federation had offered the necessary documents and official offer to FIFA long time ago.

Iran’s Croat manager Branko Ivankovic, who has recently traveled to Germany, said Zandi has voiced readiness for joining his compatriots.

The trainer has yet to officially call up Zandi to the national squad and fields him in 2006 World Cup qualifiers.

IRAN ZANDY

2004-12-13T07:32:00.001-08:00

IRAN

2004-12-13T07:32:00.000-08:00

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