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Classical Persian music and poetry filled the oak-paneled Eliot Library last night as over 60 students and community members celebrated the Noruz, the Iranian New year...
...festivities of the Noruz, which translated literally means "new day," were held by the Harvard-Radcliffe Persian Society. The performance was preceded by a dinner in the Eliot Junior Common Room, featuring catered Persian cuisine and the traditional Half Seen, or "Seven S" table...
...Houston based subsidiary of the Du Pont corporation, Conoco won a contract with the Iranian government to develop two off-shore oil fields in the Persian Gulf in a deal reputedly worth approximately one billion dollars...
...chair will give Harvard a more balanced Middle Eastern studies program--comprising Arabic, Persian and Turkish...
President Clinton signed an executive order that derails the Houston-based Conoco's lucrative deal to develop two Persian Gulf oil fields for Iran through a foreign subsidiary. The move, which TIME Defense correspondent Mark Thompson says came after Clinton's weekend efforts to "choreograph" a graceful withdrawal by the firm, bars any U.S. citizens or companies from signing oil development contracts with the Iranian government. Clinton acted to reinforce a U.S. crackdown on Iran's support of international terrorism, on its efforts to undermine Middle East peace and Tehran's possible development of nuclear weapons. "The problem...