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Show DAILY HERALD Saturday, April 22, 2006 Suspect. kidnapping them. The suspect is driving a bronze,tan or light " brownCadillac with four doors Continued from Al and tinted windows. Thursday. A man with the same There are fuzzy black and description tried abducting a white dice hanging onthe rear 13-year-old girl at 1350 E. 500 view mirror. The ear has light South. The girl was able to get _leatherinterior and a Calvin awayfrom the man by kicking cartoon on the center console, andscreaming, Healey said. Healey said. Both students were walkThe mothersaid her 18-yearing alone whenthe man tried old friend saw the suspect ear- HARMONS lier in the week driving in the neighborhood and offered her ride. Police urge parents to talk to their children about the dangers _of talking to or accepting rides from strangers. Parents need to teach their children that if an attack does happen the children can es awayby kicking, areas ae running, Healey your neighborhood grocer* ERRY KARL VICKWashington Post The unemployed young men of Shaft, Iran, offer their opinions at a teahouse where they gather. Said Mojtaba Dejahang: “Webelieve that with nuclear powerIran will actually speed up development.” Iran Continued from Al despite widespread disdain forthe rulirig mullahs. Ina country where time has seemed to standstill for a quarter-century, the public associates nucle- % Case $399 ‘SAVE *2.11 ea. morningconsisted of one transaction: A woman returned the shelving she'd bought the day before, and Shalde gaveher $3 back. “There is not enoughsalary for the people,” 916 Oz. SAVE *1.49ea... gas WESTERN FAMILY WESTERN FAMILY GRANULATED 1) GRANULATED 1) Ss hesaid. “Thereis not enough income. They don't have enough money, so they don’t buy anything.” Shaft rests in the low-lying vermillion countryside below the Caspian Sea, its main streetoftidy ugar Westem Family Granulated lo. Ba: init 2 = ee Ga Wee ay ea. CanningJars $6! ni according to U.N, figures — useto fill days not caety® 49 a HOrBoN ; saAngel Food Cake 49 ¥ 16 ounce ea. Sponge Cake BOTBON save1~ $488 Whipped Topping Cool Whip, 8 oz. Limit 4 HOrBUN save50° ea. % MCP Pectin $4 bo 2 Ounce shops curving gently. The surrounding valley is checkered byrice paddies, and families icky enough to own oneeat the harvest themselves. Thougheconomists call the region prosperous compared with mostofIran, residents say they need twojobs to survive. Thelocal string factory, which used to employ 400, now has work for fewer than 100. “Opium, yes. You can smell it in the evening, Shaldesaid of the drug manypeople’in Iran — morethan in anyother country in the world, Canning Jars 12 CountPints ar energy with economic development. “Thecity of Shaft is just like anywhereelse in the country,”said Jafar Shalde, the owner of a housewares shop whosebusinesson a recent oOrBun save70%. HARMONS OREM 870 East 800 Nort Wy) Orem, Utah filled by jobs. At64, Shalde is old enough to rememberIran's 1979 revolution, defined for Americans by the hostageCrisis. Iranians recall it differently. “It was because of the shah,” Shaldesaid, referring to Shah MohammadReza Pahlavi. “There was no equality between classes. There was a gap between people, and our imam said the reason was the shah, and he asked us to demonstrate against him. Andthis iswhat wedid.” The mullahs took control, but the gap re- mained, though the governmentdeclines to measure incomedifferences. “In my view, 1 percent may be getting equal to the next 30 percentof the population,” said Ali Rashidi, a prominent economist and former Central Bank official. “You can see it.” Iranians say they do. They call a rich man “the sonofa cleric,” shorthand for the insider government connections crucial to any enterprise here. The richest personin Iran is believed to be Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a mid-levelcleric whoserved twoterms as president in the 1990s KARLVICKWashington Post Abbas Kayhan,25, said he feels stuck behind the counter of his father’s cornerstore in Shaft, Iran. “You people, you have got a very good life in the U.S. Whatis this place? Everything is miserable.” apple tobacco.“Otherwise, there's no hope.” The newpresident has brought a glimmer, however. Mojtaba Dejahang,23, voted for a reformist candidate but now approvesof the hard-line conservative who emphasized economic issues over personal freedoms. “Breadis important,” said Dejahang, who lives with his parents despite holding an engineering degree.“I think ordinary people do love him andtrust him,especially with his position on the nuclear issue. He showed thathe’s a firm person. Webelieve that with nuclear powerIran will actually speed up development.” As he spoke, other young patrons chimedin, drawnby the novelty ofa visiting American and the opportunity to be heard. “I want to makeonepointclear,” Mani Jalili announced,by wayofintroduction. “If Americans attack the city of Shaft, I will defendit.” Atta Jafarzadeh, 17, wore suede sneakers and an injured look. “Weare the generation bornaf- and outspent his opponentsin an attemptto return to office last year. His accession was preempted by Ahmadinejad, ter the revolution,” he implored. “Wehaveno bad whosurged ahead onthe strength ofa halfhour campaign video. Broadcast nationwide in a nightly candidate showcase, the video made no mention of wiping Israeloff the map or even nuclear power —- issues that havesince defined Ahmadiriejad for the outside world. Tehran, 180 miles to the southeast, or had just ciety,” Ahmadinejadsaid in announcing retention ment, it’s easy. For ordinary people, not a chance. There's alot of talk about justice, but there’s not memories of the Americans.” The young men wereeither on their way to come back empty-handed. “Unless you havejobs for everyone, democracy will nevertake root here,” said Zirak Shafti, 39, whosaid his advertising business was faltering. “That's why no government ever succeeded here.It was always dependent onoil. It wanted It simply showed thathe lived in a modest house, worked long hours as Tehran's mayor and to control everyt Insidethe airy, neatly arranged homeofFateclearly savored contact with the commonfolk. meh Jaberoodi, the grownchildren not at work “I saw him ontelevision,” said Shalde,in the took seats along the living room wall. Only the stillness of his shop.“I didn’t vote for his promises. I just looked at him and saw he was just like oldest has a job — a bank clerkposition inherited from his father: Except for another child in Gerus. So I told everybody I knew — for example, many,the entire brood, seven adults, survives my kids — | told them to vote for him.” on the rice from a small paddy plus Jaberoodi’s That Ahmadinejad even made promises was husband's pension, equal to $77 a month. unusual for a candidatein Iran. He vowed to The fixed amountshrinks with each uptick of “put oil money onthe sofre,” the dining cloth that ‘in an Iranian householdis the equivalent of the inflation, a chronic condition in Iran that ran at kitchen table. Iran’s petroleum reserves are the 15 percentlast year. secondlargest of any OPEC country. Andonly Jaberoodi grew wistful recalling the years beRussia has morenatural gas. fore 1979, when the Iranian rial held itselie year But great chunksof theiincomefrom oil alto year.“It seemed that the money we got was ready go to keeping public angerat bay. Iran will just blessed,” she said. “There was no inflation.” spend $25 billion this year to hold downthe pricHer daughterssatsilently. Ameneh, at 30 es offlour, rice, even gasoline. Withinsufficient the eldest, had a computer degree and a good refining capacity of its own, Iran imports more lead on a job with an automaker,but the ey gas than any nation except the United States. lacked the clout “to push the matter through,” her “Instability and mental insecurity would result mothersaid. from increasing the price of such productsin so“If people havegot links inside the governofthe subsidies. His first budget also included $19 billion to create the new jobs the economyis fail- equality of opportunity.” ing to generate at the rate young Iranians enter Sajad, 23, the oldest son still at home, stood the marketplace, a staggering 1 million a year. up. His mother frowned. “Wedon't have enough “Work,” said Sassan Ataei, 18, “is in Tehran. money tostart a business for him,” she said. That's whereour peers go.” “That’s a real problem.” At11 on a weekday morning, Ataei was head‘She lowered her voice. “My main’concern is ed downa barrenside street toward a teahouse - without a job he doesn’t become addicted to where the unemployed young men of Shaft put y of these drugs. My concern is if they can’t their effort intoleisure. Everlast, Puma — it’s find a job, this kind ofthing is inevitable.” all about the shoes in the bare,tiled room where Fatemeh Jaberoodi’s face was crossed, like young menof working age pass the daylight , Iran, by currents of knowing and helplessness. hours smoking water pipes. “Hegot up at 12, hadhis lunch, watched bit of television. Now he's goin out just to run around “Weonly get hopeful when we smoke hashish,” said one, smiling as he made dowith spiced- withhis friends,” she said. “I can't stop him.” SALES Re |