Word: parsi
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...Trita Parsi is among the foremost U.S.-based scholars analyzing the current standoff over Iran's nuclear program. He has worked in an advisory capacity in government in both the U.S. and Sweden, and is currently the president of the National Iranian-American Council. In the course of research for his forthcoming book Treacherous Triangle - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States, Parsi interviewed more than 130 leading U.S., Israeli and Iranian officials. With European efforts to broker a compromise with Iran apparently faltering, TIME.com's Tony Karon asked Dr. Parsi to parse the prospects...
...Parsi: Although the EU representative, Javier Solana, reported that progress had been made in his talks with Iran's nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, the Iranians have thus far continued to reject the Western demand that Iran suspend uranium enrichment as a precondition for negotiations. Solana and Larijani had been looking for a formula that would have the Iranians halt enrichment activities for a clearly defined period to allow such talks to begin. But the Iranians are reluctant to accept any deal that removes their right to enrich uranium at some point in the future; even if they do so temporarily...
...Parsi trader from Bombay, group founder Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata knew how to turn a profit. But J.N. also had a patrician vision of spreading wealth and lifting a nation. In a 1902 letter to his son about building a workers' city around his Tata Steel works, he deplored the squalor of industrial England and anticipated what would become a standard for urban planning: "Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens." After his death in 1904, the city took...
...center of Mistry's fine new novel Family Matters (Faber and Faber; 487 pages) is Nariman Vakeel, a 79-year-old Parsi widower besieged equally by Parkinson's disease and his middle-aged stepchildren, Coomy and Jal. Nariman is also haunted by memories of the real love of his life, a Catholic Goan whom he did not marry in deference to the "marriage arrangers, the wilful manufacturers of misery," a failure of courage that resulted in scandal and tragedy. His joyless family resides in a spacious apartment in Bombay's Chateau Felicity...
...full support to all those feeling threatened. At no point should we ever try to escape retaliation by distancing ourselves from fellow South Asians. Although there are many religions in South Asia, we are one community and will proudly stand beside our Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian, Jewish and Parsi brothers and sisters in this time of concern...