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This just in from a student inside of Iran...

He sent us a copy of a letter he wrote Mr. Kristof of the
NY Times.

"Dear Mr. Kristof

I am following your articles in NY Times and however, I don't agree with you on your ideas toward Bush administration and I disliked what you said comparing Bush & Khomeini in your last article but I also cant ignore your good work on those articles.

I am an Iranian student here in Iran, would like to ask you to meet a University professor at Tehran University, "Doctor Hosein Deheshyar ". He is very pro-US and has many articles praising the states in Shargh newspaper.

You can find him through University of Tehran administration on Enghelab Avenue near university of Tehran compound.

Or you can reach him through "Allameh Uni" on 'Bucharest Avenue'.

Or you can access him through shargh daily at this number 8880304 - 8880333

I strongly recommend you to talk to him and publish another great article on Iranians.

And I request you not to criticise any aspect of USA in Iran otherwise you will get bad feedbacks here or there.
We, unconditionally, support the US and Mr, Bush.

Thank you very much!

Good Luck
Annonymous Student"

Iran, US in Gulf beach football diplomacy

Thu May 13,11:00 AM ET Add Offbeat - AFP to My Yahoo!

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iranian and US diplomats, whose countries' ties were severed 24 years, have done battle on the southern Gulf beaches of Abu Dhabi, testing their soccer skills, the official news agency IRNA said.

The Iranians emerged with a convincing 6-2 victory from the encounter, which was part of a tournament Wednesday between 18 diplomatic missions in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

IRNA gave no details of any non-sporting contacts between the two sides.

In 1998, Iranians took to the streets to celebrate their national side's 2-1 triumph over the United States during the World Cup finals in France.

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