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...supported the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister in 1953. The U.S. supported Saddam Hussein against Iran during the war, and they shot down an Iranian passenger plane in the Persian Gulf in 1988 killing 300 men, women and children. Iranians should never forget and forgive America. Parviz Zarrabi, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spiritual Solution? | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...they have been contacted by Iranian TV networks and threatened that they will lose their jobs unless they deny that they ever signed the statement. All week, conservative newspapers have run lists of names of signatories that they claim have denied their ever supporting the initiative. One famous actor, Parviz Parastoui, even published an open letter declaring, "Manijeh Hekmat has no right to decide for me." Others have reiterated their support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tehran's Filmmakers Under Fire | 3/14/2008 | See Source »

...Iranian dissident Parviz Dastmalchi glanced up at what he assumed was a late arrival coming to join the gathering. Suddenly someone shouted in Farsi, "You sons of whores!" and two gunmen opened fire. Dastmalchi threw himself backward under a table and played dead. The shooting lasted no more than a minute, then the gunmen fled in a dark blue BMW. Sharafkandi and two associates were killed instantly, and a third man died shortly afterward in the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tehran Connection | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...similar conscience-stirring hallucination seized stockbrokers Larry Doyle and Terry Scott, management consultant Sheena Laughlin, computer scientist Parviz Kermani and record-company executive Bill Shaughnessy as they went through their closets. Hanging there were winter coats they had not worn in years. Doyle's gray-and-black herringbone was of an elegant European design that he now considers a bit flashy. The vibrant blue of Laughlin's five-year- old down coat had begun to fade. Kermani's dark blue raincoat had become too tight. Shaughnessy thought the brown trench with the bright red lining was starting to look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene a Tale of Five Warm Coats | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

...University devised its policy, a step that came just in time for students like Parviz Khalili '82, who went to registration in January without tuition funds. An official sent him to Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, who signed a piece of paper and told Khalili he could go to classes while he waited for the money to arrive...

Author: By Suzanne R. Spring, | Title: Keeping Iranians Out of the Red | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

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