The Real Iran

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The Real Iran
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In recent years, the media has damaged Irans
image so badly that when people hear the name of
Iran, they only picture black chadors, terrorism,
and ayatollahs. These stereotypes are being
constructed to make it easier for governments to
attack Iran with public approval. That is why
NoWar SA wishes to play a small but essential
role in breaking down these negative stereotypes.

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What do you know about the real Iran?
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Business, Engineeringand Technology
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Pierre Omidyar

• The founder/chairman of the eBay auction site.

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Farzad Nazem

• Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice
  President of Yahoo! Inc.

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Omid Kordestani

• The Senior Vice President for Worldwide Sales
  and Field Operations of Google.

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Firouz Naderi

• The Associate Director of NASAs Jet
  Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

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Parisa Khosravi

• Senior Vice President and Managing Editor,
  International News Gathering, CNN.

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Entertainment Popular Culture
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Freddie Mercury

• The lead singer of Queen.

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Christiane Amanpour

• The chief international correspondent for CNN.

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Anoushe Ansari

• The world's first female space tourist.

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Abbas Kiarostami

• An internationally acclaimed film director
  who has received some 100 awards and has been a
  member of the jury at numerous festivals, most
  notably the president of the Cannes Film Festival.

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Reza Badiyi

• Director of episodes of Mission Impossible,
  Hawaii Five-O, Mannix, The Six million Dollar
  Man, Starsky and Hutch, The Rockford Files,
  Police Squad! Dr.Quinn, Medicine Woman, Star Trek
  Deep Space Nine, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nikita
  and Sliders.

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Shohreh Aghdashloo

• 2003 Academy Award Nomination.

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Marjane Satrapi

• Graphic novelist, illustrator and childrens
  book author.

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Shahram Shiva

• Rumi translator, author, lecturer and performer.

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Lily Afshar

• Regarded as one of the worlds best female
  classical guitarists.

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Omid Djalili

• The only Iranian Comedian in the world, which
  is technically three more than Germany!

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Samira Makhmalbaf

• At age 27
• considered to be one of the best directors of
  contemporary world cinema.

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Shahrdad Rohani

• Best known for arranging and conducting the
  Yanni Live at the Acropolis concert, the most
  widely viewed program ever shown on Public
  Television in the United States, and the second
  best-selling music video of all time

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Nazanin Afshin-Jam

• Miss World Canada 2003.

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Ramona Amiri

• Miss World Canada 2005.

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Shiraz Wine

• Australia's most popular red wine stems from
  Shiraz the city of flowers, wine and poetry in
  Iran in the heart of an ancient winemaking
  region where the process of wine making possibly
  originated 7000 years ago.

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Sports
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Andre Agassi

• The former World No. 1
• Professional tennis player.

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Ali Daei

• The first male soccer player who scored 100
  goals in international play.

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Humanitarianism
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Abdol-Hossein Sardari

• Irans charge daffaires in Paris who issued
  Iranian passports to many non-Iranian Jews, and
  saved the lives of hundred of Jews from the Nazis.

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Camila Batmanghelidjh

• The founder of the children's charity Kids
  Company, which serves in excess of 20,000
  children a year.
• The winner of the UK's Women of the Year 2006
  award.

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Mina Bissell

• A possible candidate for a Nobel prize for her
  30 years of scientific effort which has become
  increasingly influential in the field of cancer
  biology and cancer therapeutics.

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Shirin Ebadi

• 2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner.

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Architecture and Design
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Farshid Moussavi

• World leader in Architectural Engineering.

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Fariborz Sahba

• Designer of the Lotus Temple which, in
  2002, attracted more than 50 million visitors,
  making it the most visited building in the world.

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Hossein Amanat

• The architect of Azadi Tower, the symbol
  of Tehran.

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Historical Figures
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Rumi(1207 1273)

• Persian poet.
• His followers, the Whirling Dervishes, believe
  in performing their worship in the form of dance
  and music.

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Omar Khayyam(1048 1131)

• Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and
  astronomer.
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Cyrus the Great Cylinder(539BC)

• The first charter of Human Rights.
• Abolished forced labour,
• prohibited oppression and terror,
• and guaranteed freedom of
• settlement and religion.

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Razi(865 925)

• Celebrated chemist, physicist and philosopher,
  discoverer of medical applications for alcohol.

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Farabi(870 950)

• Widely regarded to be second only to
  Aristotle in knowledge alluded to by his title
  of "the Second Teacher"

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Abu-Rayhan Biruni(973 1048)

• Contributed greatly to the fields of
  mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and Science.

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Avicenna(980 1037)

• Persian physician, philosopher, and scientist.
  His The Canon of Medicine was a standard
  medical text in many European universities for
  five centuries.

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Saadi(1184 1283)

• One of his poems is used to grace the entrance
  to the Hall of Nations of the UN building in New
  York
• The children of Humanity are each others limbs
• That share an origin in their creator
• When one limb passes its days in pain
• The other limbs cannot remain easy.
• You who feel no pain at the suffering of others
• It is not fitting you be called human.

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NoWar SA

• says no to war on Iran
• http//www.nowar-sa.net/