Archive - Jun 1, 2010 - Article

What would Prince of Persia do?

All the way home from the movie Prince of Persia we three cousins fantasized about what we would do if we had a Dagger of Time so that we could go back to our decision points in the past and do things differently. Some stock purchases, college majors, and divorces later we ended up in politics. How should we as a nation have acted so we wouldn’t end up in the mess we’re in? The conclusion was that as individuals we couldn’t change anything, except in unrealistic ways like taking a lot of money out of the country when 6 Tomans could still buy a Dollar and then funding a counter offensive against the dictatorial trends>>>

Rafsanjani Returns

Ayatollah Khamenei's "new face" and stubborn unwillingness to moderate his support for Mr. Ahmadinejad for the sake of the country's nuclear program is moving the future of Iran towards a dangerous direction of confrontation that has prompted members of the opposition and prominent conservatives--most notably Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani--to temper their public accusations of election fraud and alter their strategy to bring about governmental reform>>>

Hidden motives

Washington supported mediation by Brazil and Turkey when it did not expect them to succeed and turned its back when they accomplished exactly what the Obama administration said it sought from Iran. The full text of a letter sent by President Obama on April 20, 2010 to President Lula da Silva regarding Brazil's and Turkey's negotiations is now available and we reproduce it here. In the letter, the White House strongly encouraged the intermediaries to negotiate with Iran for a single purpose, namely to persuade the Islamic Republic to send 1200 kg of its low enriched uranium to Turkey in exchange for fuel rods for the Tehran Research Reactor>>>

The 2nd Year of Green

Don’t expect me to win  
Don’t wait for me to die  
I’m here to stay  
I’m here to survive  >>>

Black Pelicans

There is a new species on the scene
Another miracle of evolution
Like you and like me

Black pelicans in a black see
Covered in oil and tar

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