PKR pilih Mansor ganti Fairus

PKR akhirnya menemui calon timbalan satu ketua menteri Pulau Pinang bagi menggantikan Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin yang meletakkan jawatan tersebut awal bulan ini.

Timbalan ketua perhubungan PKR negeri Dr Mansor Othman - seperti diura-urakan sebelumnya - disebut-sebut terpilih mewakili parti itu dalam pilihanraya kecil Penanti bulan depan.

Nama tokoh kanan PKR itu akan diumumkan oleh penasihatnya Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dalam satu program di Yayasan Aman di kawasan Permatang Pauh, malam esok.

Pilihanraya kecil kerusi DUN itu dijadual diadakan antara 23 hingga 31 Mei ini susulan kekosongan yang ditinggalkan oleh Mohammad Fairus.

Selain timbalan Lim Guan Eng, beliau juga meletakkan jawatan exco pada 8 April lalu dan kemudian melepaskan jawatan ADUN pada 16 April lepas.

Kekosongan jawatan kedua penting itu pernah menimbulkan salah faham terbuka antara ketua menteri dan Anwar kira-kira dua minggu lepas berhubung kelewatan mencari pengganti Mohammad Fairus.

Dunia makin cemas

PERKETAT PEMERIKSAAN... PETUGAS lapangan terbang di Mexico City melakukan pemeriksaan ketat terhadap para penumpang bagi mencegah menularnya wabak virus selesema babi. Sehingga semalam, wabak itu telah mengorbankan 81 nyawa. – AFP

Jumlah kematian akibat selesema babi di Mexico semalam, meningkat kepada 81 orang berbanding 68 orang kelmarin. Wabak itu mula menular ke Amerika Syarikat (AS) dengan jumlah mangsa meningkat 10 orang.

Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia (WHO) memberi amaran wabak yang dianggap makin mencemaskan itu berpotensi untuk menjadi pusat ‘pandemik’ atau wabak yang akan merebak

di seluruh dunia.

Di Malaysia, orang ramai diminta segera berjumpa doktor jika ada simptom batuk, demam dan sakit badan.

Kementerian Kesihatan menguat kuasa serta-merta empat langkah pencegahan.

Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad akan memantau penumpang penerbangan dari luar negara termasuk AS mulai hari ini.

Iran in the 1970s before the Islamic Revolution

Mention the word Iran to most people and this image is probably close to what first comes to mind:

Older people will remember a vastly different impression of Iran though, the Iran from before the Islamic Revolution. There are a large number of pictures and videos out there that show a radically different country from the one today (some might be from the 1960s BTW) so I've gathered a few of them together.

(Edit: Actually the pictures are almost all people so perhaps Iranians in the 1970s would be a more appropriate title)

First some photos from two videos here and here:


















A few screen shots from this video:




As well as some other images from here and there:

Atta Behmanesh (sport anchor), Giti (singer), and Parviz Gharib Afshar (producer) on Iranian state run TV

Portrait of Mahasti, famous Persian songstress, on cover of "Weekly Ettelaat" magazine (1974)

Photo of "Forouzan" printed on the cover of «Weekly Ettelaat» magazine, No.1706 (1974).

Khandaniha Magazine's front page, published on Saturday, Wednesday, May 10, 1972

Photo published with an interview of "Weejly Ettelaat" with "Ali Hatami", 3 months after marriage with "Zari Khoshkam"

This photo was printed on the cover of "Weekly Ettelaat" magazine, No.1523, together with this note: "Forouzan and the latest fashion; Will people of Tehran approve it?"

Street scene from Tehran in 1975. Note the Canada Dry sign in the back.

Second grade, Hekmat Primary School 1973

Community High School in Tehran in the 1970s (closed down in 1979). Nothing particularly notable about the building itself but former Georgia Congressman and Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr graduated from high school here in 1966.