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For young Holocaust refugees, early El Al trip proved love at first flight
Despite an emergency landing, the airline's inaugural trip from London set a lifelong romance on its path to takeoff
LONDON — A couple who met and fell in love on the first El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv recently relived the journey — this time without the emergency landing.
Ralph Gartenberg, who was 24 at the time of the December 1949 flight, had a one-way ticket. "As I got ready to board, I noticed that most of the passengers were middle age or older," he recalls. "There was only one pretty young woman on the flight."
Rose Kraemer, 20, spotted the eligible young man as soon as she entered the El Al lounge in London. "I would like to get to know him," she remembers thinking.
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Kraemer was traveling back to Israel after a two-year course in orthoptics, a type of eye care, which had taken her to Leeds. Upon her return, she became the first professional in the field in Israel.
Gartenberg had been summoned to the country by his father — "I had a week's notice to come assist him in a company he had taken over," he says.
A planned stopover in Paris provided an opportunity for the two to meet. When Gartenberg went to buy a cup of coffee, he was refused because he didn't have the local currency. Kraemer tried her luck and failed, too.
In a scene perfect for a Nora Ephron or Woody Allen movie, a gallant, wealthy young Arab man traveling with an entourage offered to pay for her coffee. Delighted, she accepted.
"Can you buy me two?" she asked. "One for my friend."
Gartenberg, a former sailor in the Royal Navy, admired the spunky young woman. Before they reboarded, he asked a stewardess to seat him next to Kraemer, and found that conversation between them flowed easily.
"Back on board, we both dozed off during the night flight, but woke up around 3 a.m.," Gartenberg says. "I looked out the window and noticed that one propeller was not turning. Rose said she smelled fuel, which seemed to be trailing off the wing. We asked the stewardess, and she told us the engine system was working, and that the plane [a Skymaster turboprop] could fly . . .Minutes later, the pilot said he was making an emergency landing in Athens."
The experience, they remember, was eerie and dramatic.
"Ambulances and fire engines waited for us near the runway," Gartenberg says. "We had to wait for a whole day for El Al to fly in a new engine from Israel. The Athens airport was being renovated, and conditions were awful. It was cold. There was no comfortable place to rest. Ladies had to pass through the men's urinal to get to the ladies' toilet. Joking about it helped."
When the plane took off again, it flew right into a storm. But the excitement heightened the drama of the budding romance.
"I guess I was shocked into falling in love," says Gartenberg, now 87. "After the landing, I made sure to find out how to keep in touch with Rose."
"I proposed [in May 1950] in my parent's house, while we were listening to a symphony. It took her three months to accept. We were married a year and a half after meeting, on her birthday — April 18."
The couple's big wedding was a particularly meaningful celebration for both families, which had escaped the Nazis and built homes in the newly reborn Jewish homeland.
Kraemer had warm memories of her early childhood in Czernowitz, in what's now Ukraine, a German-speaking city known as Little Vienna. Her grandfather, Josef Ohrenstein, was the medical director of the Jewish Hospital in the city, where Jews were a plurality in 1930. Her father, a lawyer, headed the family business, supplying tools and machines to farmers, and worked as an agent for leading German manufacturers. War changed all that.
The Soviet army occupied the city in 1940. Fearful of deportation, Kraemer's family fled to Romania, where her father purchased a "capitalist visa" for £1,000. "We managed to get on the last legal transportation to Palestine in 1941," she says.
Kraemer was barely 12 when she arrived in Tel Aviv, with no knowledge of Hebrew. "Either keep up or you will stay behind," she remembers being told. She kept up.
Gartenberg, meanwhile, spent his teenage years on his own in wartime England.
"My parents lived in Bedburg [in Germany], a small country town in the Rhineland where life was idyllic. In January 1938, I was send to Whittingham College, a well-known Jewish boarding school in Brighton, England, where a cousin of my mother's taught. I loved every minute of it. I came back to Germany for my bar mitzvah, and for summer vacation. I was back in England when Kristallnacht shattered Jewish dreams in Germany."
Following the pogrom, Gartenberg's father sold his retail haberdashery and drapery store to a competitor, then bought train tickets for his family to Lvov, part of Poland at the time. When Germany invaded, the family fled once again, to Bucharest, Romania, where they remained until they were allowed into Palestine in 1940, also on capitalist visas.
Ralph Gartenberg graduated from boarding school with high grades at the age of 16, and got a job fixing motors at the largest electrical motor repair factory in Birmingham.
"I really wanted to become an opera singer," he says, "but that was not an option in wartime."
Determined to become a soldier so he could avenge family members killed by the Nazis, he tried to enlist in the army, but eventually joined the Royal Navy instead, an experience he wrote about in a wry, as yet unpublished account of his life as a Jewish sailor. (He was one of three on his destroyer.)
Despite stormy seas, E-Boat attacks and several anti-Semitic assaults by fellow sailors, "Life on the ocean waves was much more to my liking than the army would have been," he says.
In 1946, the Royal Navy granted him "compassionate leave" to visit his family in Tel Aviv, eight and a half years after he'd last seen them. He returned to England to complete his service in the navy, then found his first job in the button and accessories industry.
His return to Israel in 1949 was short-lived, with Gartenberg finding it difficult to work with his father after many years of independence. After two years of married life in Israel, he moved back to England with his young wife.
Six decades later, the couple live in Pinner, Middlesex, a suburb to the northwest of London, and both are active in the local golf club. Ralph, who rose to direct the factory where he'd first worked in Birmingham, eventually set up his own successful business; he retired in 1993.
He and his wife have two sons, Rob and Pete, and two grandchildren. On Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, Gartenberg was asked to place a wreath on the local war memorial on behalf of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women, part of an interfaith ceremony attended by more than 500 people.
More recently, the Gartenbergs traveled to Israel, where they celebrated the 90th birthday of Rose's brother.
The pair made a point of flying El Al, a nod to its role as their matchmaker.
After more than 61 years of marriage, they remain nostalgic about their first trip — but this time enjoyed sitting side by side on a non-stop flight, passing over Paris and Athens without concerns about the propellers.


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Brazil Soybean Export Delays May Worsen in 2014
Brazil's delays loading soybeans for export may worsen in 2014 due to a bigger crop and as some grain facilities are used for sugar shipments, crop analyst Soybean & Corn Advisor Inc. said.
Waiting times for vessels may give U.S. soybean exporters a longer selling window and potentially lift U.S. export volumes, Michael Cordonnier, president and owner of the Hinsdale, Illinois-based firm, wrote in an online report today.
Brazil is forecast to harvest a record 88 million metric tons of soybeans in 2013-14, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts. A fire at the port of Santos on Oct. 18 that destroyed sugar warehouses may mean some grain facilities will be used for exports of the sweetener, Cordonnier wrote.
"A good analogy for the infrastructure problems in Brazil is an hour glass," Cordonnier said. "In 2014, the top of the hour glass is going to get bigger with a record large soybeans crop and the restricted part of the hour glass, which are the ports in Brazil, is going to get a little smaller in 2014 due to the fire at Santos."
Brazil may export 1 million tons of soybeans by the end of February after early planting was delayed by a week, and the "real logistical problems" will start in March as the record crop starts heading to the ports, according to Cordonnier.
"The real choke-point in Brazil's infrastructure is the capacity to load grain at the ports," the analyst wrote.
Shipping problems and delays are "inevitable" because all of Brazil's ports were already working at capacity, and the fire means a significant part of capacity at the port of Santos will be out of order for many months, the analyst said.
"The result could be longer waiting times for vessels and more congestion all throughout the system all the way back to the local grain elevators in the interior," Cordonnier wrote. "If a vessel is forced to wait 60, 70, 80 days to load soybeans from Brazil, it could end up being cheaper getting the soybeans from the U.S. even if the price of the commodity is a little higher."
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OP-ED: Crowdfunding could be capital idea that goes long way toward unlocking L.A.'s entrepreneurial potential.
Los Angeles has always been a hotbed of opportunity and creativity. But even with the highest number of entrepreneurs living here of any U.S. city (580 per every 100,000 adults, according to a Kauffman Foundation study), it still remains better known for its entertainment industry than any entrepreneurial spirit.
Though that could all be about to change with the rise of crowdfunding – a means to raise capital in small amounts from a large group of people from the Internet and social media.
Suggestions that this phenomenon could change the perception of La-La Land were very much in evidence at a recent gathering of leading local and international innovators, visionaries and investors. Many attendees at the first annual Next Generation Entrepreneurship and Global Crowdfunding Forum at Santa Monica on Nov. 16 saw crowdfunding as the clearest path to an economic comeback.
One of the distinguished speakers, Howard J. Leonhardt, founder of the California Stock Xchange, predicted: "Crowdfunding will bring the grandest expression of human creativity and economic growth ever seen in the history of human civilization and will unleash the dreams, will and burning desire of people who want to show what they can do – particularly those who have never been given a chance before."
Others pointed out how crowdfunding has the potential to transform and democratize the funding industry by putting a lot more capability into the hands of the public – who have already proved their financing power. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in 2010, while $9.4 billion was committed by angel investors, $41.6 billion in private capital came from friends and family.
More recent data reveals further insights: In 2011, 4.8 percent of the U.S. population personally provided funds for new businesses while only 1 percent of the population was represented by venture capitalists and accredited investors (who must have an annual income of at least $200,000 or more than $1 million in liquid net worth). Moreover, the number of accredited investors dropped last year by 12.5 percent and was roughly just about 120,000 people.
The unconventional truth that was revealed at the forum was that formal investors do not have enough capacity to back all of the startups. Two prominent entrepreneurs, angel investors and founders of leading local accelerators, David Carter (of the Amplify business accelerator) and Howard Marks (of StartEngine), agreed that they don't have to compete with each other as there is plenty of businesses to go round.
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The Bobcats got 22 of a possible 30 points in their three fall sports, good for a .733 rating, behind only Columbus State University who won titles in all three of its sports, a 1.000 rating.
The fall programs were led by women's cross country, taking runner-up honors at the PBC Championships in Pembroke, N.C. The women's soccer team picked up a third-place finish this season, getting 19 points off a 5-1-4 conference mark. Men's cross country took fifth at the PBC Championships this fall to round out the strong finishes for Georgia College.
The Georgia College Athletic Department continues to be on the rise, winning the first PBC Commissioner's Cup in school history last season after previously not finishing any higher than fifth. Nine of the 10 athletic programs at Georgia College advanced to the NCAA postseason, and the Bobcats had the highest percentage of student-athletes on the PBC Academic Scholar list.
Lander University is third at .696, Augusta State University fouth at .684 and Armstrong Atlantic State University stands fourth at .667.
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"They didn't panic," Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett said. "They kept competing."
The Lady Bisons trailed by as many as 11 points in the first half as they struggled to find a flow to the game.
"We had a hard time working our way out of that," Bennett said. "We were trying to do things too quick.
"I don't know if it was because it was our first night under the lights. We had a lot of fouls early and had to change our substitution some."
In the second half the Lady Bisons patiently chipped away at the Harding lead, finally take a 55-54 advantage with 3:48 left in regulation on a free throw from wing Valerie Bronson. The Lady Bisons led by as many as four points with (60-56) with 2:45 remaining.
But Harding regained the lead with 1:50 on the clock on a free throw and a lay-up by Bailey St. Clair for a 61-60 lead. With 11 seconds left a 3-pointer by Sierra Rollins appeared to have sealed the game for Harding, but the Lady Bisons weren't done.
"The big thing was we found ways to win," Bennett said. "We almost didn't leave ourselves much time to do that.
"We knocked down some big shots and made a key stop and got a rebound to finish it off. It took us some time to get there."
With three seconds left in regulation Lady Bisons' guard Jenna Bartsokas put up a 3-pointer that bounced off the rim. Bartsokas was fouled on the shot sending her to the line for three shots. Bartsokas sank all three to send the game into overtime.
"That was tough for Jenna, " Bennett said. "But she is a very good free throw shooter."
Tied 63-63 in regulation neither team got off to a fast start in the overtime period.
Lady Bisons' point guard Miaca Bowman hit a pair of free throws to give the Lady Bisons a 65-63 lead. Cherilyn McMenamy answered at 3:04 with a pair of free throws to tie the game.
Bartsokas connected on jumper at 2:37 to give the Lady Bisons a 67-65 lead. The Lady Bisons would maintain the edge on the way to the win with a free throw from center Brittany Duerk, and a 3-pointer and free throw by wing player Leah McAlister.
"Leah has been shooting the 3-point ball very well this fall," Bennett said. "I put Leah in with the idea of her popping off a high ball screen for the shot. We reversed the ball to the weak side of the floor so she had an opportunity."
Bartsokas led the Lady Bisons with a game-high 21 points, with a .500 percentage from (3-of-6) from 3-point range.
Guard Anna Bowers, part of a three-guard starting line-up for the Lady Bisons, scored 12 points, including a pair of 3-point shots.
Duerk grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds. She also played a game high 43 minutes. Bartsokas was close behind with 41 minutes.
Harding held a 42-31 advantage in rebounds. Rollins had nine for Harding.
"We have to rebound better," Bennett said. "We used some fairly small lineups."
Three Harding players finished with double figures in scoring with Rollins leading the way with 20.
Harding scored 26 points in the paint, an area that causes Bennett some concerns.
"We let them drive the middle too much," Bennett said. "If we let the ball go to the middle there is not much help we can give. Bad things are going to happen.
"We put Harding on the foul line way too much. We have to be more disciplined."
The Lady Bisons travel to Colorado Springs, Colo., Friday to face the Air Force Academy to officially open the regular season.
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New footage from the show's upcoming fifth season gives major clues to our most burning questions — and, as always, leaves new questions to be answered.
True Blood's fifth season premieres June 10 on HBO, which means we're just 12 days away from finding out whether or not Tara (Rutina Wesley) survived that seemingly fatal gunshot to her head. We can only speculate until then, but this brand-new trailer gives us our biggest clue yet: A teary Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) tells Sookie (Anna Paquin), "You survived, you always do," seeming to imply that someone else did not fare so well.
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HISTORY 236: The Ethics of Imperialism
Can a commitment to liberty, progress, and universal rights be reconciled with imperialism? The ethical underpinnings of empire; how modern Europeans provided ethical and political justifications for colonial expansion. How European ideals were used to defend and justify inequality, violence, and genocide. The ethics of American-driven globalization and humanitarianism. Texts include primary sources, philosophical treatises, and historical studies.
Last offered: Autumn 2007 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 239F: Empire and Information (HISTORY 339F)
How do states see? How do they know what they know about their subjects, citizens, economies, and geographies? How does that knowledge shape society, politics, identity, freedom, and modernity? Focus is on the British imperial state activities in S. Asia and Britain: surveillance technologies and information-gathering systems, including mapping, statistics, cultural schemata, and intelligence systems, to render geographies and social bodies legible, visible, and governable.
Last offered: Autumn 2005 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom | Repeatable for credit
HISTORY 254: Popular Culture and American Nature
Despite John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and Rachel Carson, it is arguable that the Disney studios have more to do with molding popular attitudes toward the natural world than politicians, ecologists, and activists. Disney as the central figure in the 20th-century American creation of nature. How Disney, the products of his studio, and other primary and secondary texts see environmentalism, science, popular culture, and their interrelationships.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
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HISTORY 254D: Religion and War in America (AMSTUD 105R, CSRE 105, HISTORY 354D, RELIGST 105)
Scholars have devoted much attention to wars in American history, but have not agreed as to whether religion was a major cause or simply a cover for political, economic, and other motives. We will compare interpretations that leave religion out, with those that take it into account. We will also look at the impact of war on the religious lives of ordinary Americans. We will examine both secondary as well as primary sources, beginning with King Philip's War in the 17th century, and ending with the "War on Terror" in the present day.
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HISTORY 255: Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Social Gospel and the Struggle for Justice
The religious and political thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., using the documentary resources of the King Institute at Stanford. His social gospel Christianity and prophetic message of radical social transformation. Readings include the forthcoming The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel.
Last offered: Autumn 2006 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 256G: Constructing Race and Religion in America (AFRICAAM 236, AMSTUD 246, CSRE 246, HISTORY 356G, RELIGST 246, RELIGST 346)
This seminar focuses on the interrelationships between social constructions of race, and social interpretations of religion in America. How have assumptions about race shaped religious worldviews? How have religious beliefs shaped racial attitudes? How have ideas about religion and race contributed to notions of what it means to be "American"? We will look at primary and secondary sources, and at the historical development of ideas and practices over time.
Last offered: Winter 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
HISTORY 296: Communism and Revolution in China
From the formation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1921 through the 1949 founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Topics include: early theories of socialism in China; the relationship between Chinese communism and the Communist International and Soviet Union; agrarian reformulation of communism by Mao; the communist-nationalist civil war; the Communist Revolution of 1949; and the consolidation of communist power in the PRC.
Last offered: Spring 2009 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
HISTORY 297F: Religion and Power in the Making of Modern South Asia (RELIGST 255, RELIGST 355)
This course examines the diverse ways that religious traditions have been involved in the brokering of power in South Asia from the late seventeenth century to the present day. We will examine the intersection of religion and power in different arenas, including historical memory, religious festivals, language politics, and violent actions. At the core of our inquiry is how religion is invoked in political contexts (and vice-versa), public displays of religiosity, and the complex dynamics of religion and the state. Among other issues, we will particularly engage with questions of religious identity, knowledge, and violence. Undergraduates must enroll in RELIGST 255 for 5 units. Graduate students must enroll RELIGST 355 for 3-5 units. HISTORY297F must be taken for 4-5 units.
Last offered: Spring 2016 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-ED, WAY-SI
HPS 60: Introduction to Philosophy of Science (PHIL 60, STS 200S)
This course introduces students to tools for the philosophical analysis of science. We will cover issues in observation, experiment, and reasoning, questions about the aims of science, scientific change, and the relations between science and values. STS majors cannot take STS 200S if they have previously taken PHIL 60. Priority is given to STS seniors.
Terms: Aut | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
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Exam Date/Time: 2019-12-09 3:30pm - 6:30pm (Exam Schedule)
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Galileo's defense of the Copernican world-system that initiated the scientific revolution of the 17th century, led to conflict between science and religion, and influenced the development of modern philosophy. Readings focus on Galileo and Descartes.
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Who brought the heat at BET Awards?
Awards shows tend to bring out the best in music stars, who want to shine in front of their peers. It's also a good time for surprise collaborations. Sunday's 2013 BET Awards, which aired live from Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, provided an opportunity for both. USA TODAY's Steve Jones looks at the night's performances.
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Janelle Monae
The soulful singer/rapper closed the show with the night's most energetic performance, with a little help from Erykah Badu and an appearance by a large white poodle.
2 Chainz, A$AP Rocky, Kendrick Lamar
Feds Watching/Problems
The charismatic 2 Chainz put some bounce in his latest hit, before being joined by A$AP and Lamar on their raunchy player's anthem.
Ciara with Nicki Minaj
Body Party
Minaj's frenetic rap got the party started before the singer limbered up with a quartet of dancers and eased into a slinky, gyrating performance of her sultry hit.
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Tamela Mann
Take Me to the King
The gospel star delivered a stirring rendition of this gorgeous ballad of seeking the embrace of God.
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Crooked Smile/Power Trip
A potent performance of the rapper's introspective rhymes. Miguel's soulful hook help give Trip its power.
Charlie Wilson tribute
Before the former Gap Band leader was presented with the lifetime achievement award, he was serenaded by a guitar-slinging India Aire (There Goes My Baby), Jamie Foxx (Yearning for Your Love) and Stevie Wonder (Burn Rubber-Why You Wanna Hurt Me). Justin Timberlake urged Wilson to sing after his heartfelt acceptance speech, and Wilson quickly brought the audience to its feet with the ballad You Are before being joined by Snoop Dogg and Pharrell Williams. Timberlake joined in with a few lines of Dogg's Signs. The four closed out with Gap hits You Dropped a Bomb on Me and Outstanding.
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Miguel hit the high notes as he seductively crooned his sly pickup song while Kendrick Lamar rapped a smooth come-on of his own. The singer performed a split to cap his performance but didn't take any dives into the audience this time (after injuring a fan with a flying leap at the Billboard Music Awards).
Mariah Carey
Carey's lilting delivery of her midtempo hit was sweetly captivating, while Young Jeezy's rough rhymes gave it some edge. It was the remix version of her hit with Miguel.
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R. Kelly
Hits medley
Kelly set the audience up for something that promised scintillation but ended without ever really taking off. He made a grand entrance with male and female background singers trading lines to Contagious before Kelly took over with a medley that included When A Woman's Fed Up, Bump n' Grind and Ignition Remix.
Kendrick Lamar
B----, Don't Kill My Vibe
The California rapper's mesmerizing, introspective rhymes were soulfully punctuated by jazzy horns and Erykah Badu's searing vocals.
Robin Thicke, Pharrell and T.I.
Blurred Lines
Between the song's irresistible, Pharrell-produced beats and Thicke's sexy crooning, it was hard not to want to get up and move. All the eye candy cavorting around the stage seemed to boost the enthusiasm.
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Chris Brown
Fine China/Don't Think They Know
Brown's show opener was a little sedate for the usually electric performer. He had a six-pack of dancers with him, but he left the moves to them while he delivered his current pair of hits. Nicki Minaj provided a mild spark at the end.


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Iran, formerly known as Persia, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), is a country in southwestern Eurasia. It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia, the de facto independent Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, and Azerbaijan; with Kazakhstan and Russia across the Caspian Sea; to the northeast by Turkmenistan; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman; and to the west by Turkey and Iraq. Comprising a land area of 1,648,195 km2 (636,372 sq mi), it is the second-largest nation in the Middle East and the 18th-largest in the world; with 78.4 million inhabitants, Iran is the world's 17th most populous nation. It is the only country that has both a Caspian Sea and Indian Ocean coastline. Iran has long been of geostrategic importance because of its central location in Eurasia and Western Asia, and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz.
The Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 established the nation's first parliament, which operated within a constitutional monarchy. Following a coup d'état by the U.K. and the U.S. in 1953, Iran gradually became autocratic. Growing dissent against foreign influence and political repression culminated in the Iranian Revolution, which led to the end of the Imperial State of Iran and the establishment of an Islamic republic on 1 April 1979. Tehran is the capital and largest city, serving as the cultural, commercial, and industrial center of the nation.
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- In America, there's a reverence for soldiers. One is constantly reminded of their courage, their sacrifice. Soldiers have an implied halo of selflessness, they move with a dignified bearing. Flight attendants upgrade uniformed soldiers to first class, restaurants offer veteran discounts, strangers shake their hands and say: "Thank you for your service."
In Iran every able-bodied male between the ages of 18-35 who isn't rich or crafty enough to get out of it serves in the army at some point. It's treated not as a noble calling, but as an annoyance.
- Anonymous, "How I learned to stop worrying and love the Iranian army", The Guardian (23 July 2015).
- Iran is home to a diverse range of wildlife, from bears and gazelles to Caspian seals and rare snakes. But the country's wildlife is under severe strain. Urban development and hunting have all but destroyed some of the rare species that once roamed Iran. As many as 120 Iranian breeds are on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species. Most famous of these are the Iranian cheetah, of which only 50 still survive, and the Persian leopard, now numbering about 5,000.
- Siavash Ardalan, "The big business of trophy hunting in Iran", BBC Persian (11 August 2015).
- We must understand these are not Muslims, they are the son of the Magi and their hostility towards Muslims is an old one, especially with the People of the Tradition (Sunnis).
- Abdul-Azeez ibn Abdullaah Aal ash-Shaikh, about Iranians [1] (6 September 2016)
- Interesting nugget here... @tparsi had been informed by a Hill staffer in touch with the Pentagon that military strikes were imminent. Apparently everyone thought these strikes were really happening right up until the last moment. @esaagar ... @tparsi also warns that any military strike could easily lead to full blown conflict. "The Idea that there's such a thing as a limited strike on Iran is frankly preposterous." ... (24 June 2019)
- Wait... you [President Donald Trump] only thought to ask about how many people would die 10 minutes before the strike??? That's a rather important piece of info to nearly overlook. (21 June 2019)
- NEW: Interview with Head of the National Iranian American Council @tparsi . He told us it would be "political suicide" for any Iranian politician to meet with Trump as long as Bolton/Pompeo are around. @esaagar ... #rising #sanctions #Iran #iranwar
- Krystal Ball in Twitter Post, (24 June 2019)
- The reason most of my countrymen would tell you that they carry a grudge against the United States is that the U.S. government has given its unconditional support to a monarch who has terrorized a whole nation, plundered its wealth and bought billions of dollars' worth of military equipment which neither he nor our nation knows how to use.
- Reza Baraheni (1977) The Crowned Cannibals: Writings on Repression in Iran, p. 10
- The growing confrontation in the Gulf between the US and its Saudi-led allies on one side and Iran and its proxies... which have been blamed by the US on Iran's Revolutionary Guards. This is a standoff that has been coming... Iran's actions can hardly be said to have occurred in a vacuum... it has been the recent policy of "maximum pressure" on Tehran under the incoherent foreign policy of the Trump administration that has exacerbated the current tensions... the Trump administration has withdrawn unilaterally from the internationally agreed – and successful – Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) of 2015, whose purpose was to ease sanctions on Iran in exchange for verifiable limits on the country's nuclear programme... In April, Washington designated one of the country's most significant (if troubling) security institutions – the politically influential Revolutionary Guards – a terrorist organisation. It also introduced new economic sanctions that have further stressed Iran's badly frayed economy....
- In tandem with the US moves, Saudi Arabia – one of the countries seen as pushing US policy – has increased its oil production to sell to former buyers of Iranian oil, while at the same time vocally supporting moves to strangle Iranian exports. It is not hard, then, to see how these moves might be viewed in Tehran: as part of an escalating offensive from multiple sources threatening its own home front in a campaign of economic warfare designed to weaken the regime. The depth of the US stake in this increasingly dangerous game is far harder to judge, given the usual confusion of Trump's flip-flopping and the machinations of Bolton... All of which leaves us to contemplate the most frightening element of all in a complex crisis: that the current occupant of the White House lacks any of the skills required to successfully defuse it.
- We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.
- George W. Bush, Press conference (17 October 2007).
- Where will it [Iran] drop it [the future nuclear bomb], this bomb? On Israel? It would not have gone off 200 meters into the atmosphere before Tehran would be razed to the ground.
- Jacques Chirac, as quoted in "Chirac goes nuclear", Headline Junky, (2 February 2007)
- Iran today is, in a sense, the only country where progressive ideas enjoy a vast constituency. It is there that the ideas that I subscribe to are defended by a majority.
- Iran is the only country in the world, the only one with elections, including the United States, including Israel, including you name it, where the liberals, or the progressives, have won two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote in six elections: two for president; two for the Parliament, the Majlis; two for the mayoralties. In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote. There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own.
- Bill Clinton, interview with Charlie Rose (2005).
- I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran [if it attacks Israel]. In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them. That's a terrible thing to say but those people who run Iran need to understand that because that perhaps will deter them from doing something that would be reckless, foolish and tragic.
- Hilary Clinton, Clinton says U.S. could "totally obliterate" Iran, Reuters (April 22, 2008)
- It is unlikely that Iran is involved – but the unpredictability of US and Saudi foreign policy has exacerbated the danger of military action... Saudi Arabia's claim that two of its oil tankers have been sabotaged off the coast of the UAE is vague in detail – but could create a crisis that spins out of control and into military action... Although the US is militarily superior to Iran by a wide margin, the Iranians as a last resort could fire rockets or otherwise attack Saudi and UAE oil facilities. Such apocalyptic events are unlikely – but powerful figures in Washington, such as the national security adviser John Bolton and secretary of state Mike Pompeo, appear prepared to take the risk of a war breaking out... Bolton and Pompeo are reported to have used some mortar rounds landing near the US embassy in Baghdad in February as an excuse to get a reluctant Pentagon to prepare a list of military options against Iran... the US and Saudi Arabia have been talking up war against Iran just as economic sanctions are seriously biting. Iranian oil exports have dropped from 2.8 to 1.3 million barrels a day... Promises by the EU, UK, France and Germany to enable the Islamic republic to avoid sanctions on its oil trade and banking have not been fulfilled. Commercial enterprises are too frightened of being targeted by the US treasury to risk breaching sanctions.
- Saudi Arabia is one of the only three countries in the world known to maintain the death penalty for people who allegedly committed crimes as children, along with Sudan and Iran.
- Adam Coogle, CNN (25 September 2015).
- The fifth century BCE historian Herodotus claimed not only that the Persians were very fond of wine, but that they routinely made important decisions while drunk on it. According to Herodotus, the day after such a drunken deliberation, the Persians would reconsider their decision and if they still approved, adopt it. This is, to put it mildly, a highly unlikely image of a group of people who were able to carve out one of the largest empires in antiquity and sustain it for two centuries. Are we to think that they just got lucky over and over again when they were drunk out of their minds? This is certainly the view that the Greeks promoted and Iranian irrationality remains a topos in Western culture... But if one looks at the internal Iranian evidence, for example Zoroastrian texts, a new image of the importance of wine in classical Iran emerges. The most interesting of these texts is one called The Spirit of Wisdom from the sixth century CE. One chapter discusses how wine can bring one's good and bad dispositions, and argues that those who drink it in moderation benefit in enhanced awareness and intellectual facility: "this that is forgotten will be remembered and goodness will take place in thought and it will increase the sight of the eye and hearing of the ear and the speech of the tongue, and doing work and managing will proceed faster." Relative temperance, however, is emphasized. "But anyone who drinks wine must be conscious to drink in moderation, since through moderate drinking of wine this much goodness will come to him, because food will be digested and kindle fire [of the body], and increase intelligence and the mind and seed and blood, and reject torment."
- Touraj Daryaee, "On Iranians, Drinking Wine, and Cultural Stereotyping", PBS (16 December 2012)
- Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, and Somalia are the only countries in the world that still execute people in public.
- Jeanine Di Giovanni, "When It Comes To Beheadings, ISIS Has Nothing Over Saudi Arabia" (24 October 2014), Newsweek.
- The American people have the greatest respect and admiration for the Iranian people. Your Kings from Cyrus and Darius are known among those famous monarchs who have advanced the cause of humanity. Your scientists have contributed to the foundations on which we have built our industrial society. Your philosophers and poets have enriched the culture of the west.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, as quoted in "Toast by the President at a Luncheon Given in His Honor by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi" (December 14, 1959), as quoted in "Online", by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.
- Iran's civilization and culture has become imbued and infused with humanitarianism, respect for the life, belief and faith of others, propagation of tolerance and compromise and avoidance of violence, bloodshed and war. The luminaries of Iranian literature, in particular our Gnostic literature, from Hafiz, Mowlavi [better known in the West as Rumi] and Attar to Saadi, Sanaei, Naser Khosrow and Nezami, are emissaries of this humanitarian culture.
- Shirin Ebadi, in Nobel Lecture, Nobelprize.org (10 December 2003).
- Over 100,000 Jews lived in Iran prior to the 1979 revolution... Many left right afterward, and the population has slowly declined ever since. Jewish leaders estimate there are between 12,000 and 30,000 Jews here today, making Iran's the second-largest Jewish population in the Middle East after Israel. But those who have chosen to stay in Iran have a long history of opposition to hawkish Israeli governments. Many consider themselves Jews but not Zionists. The Islamic Republic of Iran allows freedom of worship for Jews and Christians... [Unlike] some other countries in the region and in Europe, Jewish temples in Iran have not been attacked... But institutional restrictions on Jews remain... They are not able to get certain government jobs reserved for Muslims and are banned from serving as professional soldiers, although they face conscription like other Iranians.
- Reese Erlich, "Iran's Jewish community gets behind nuclear deal with U.S.", USA Today (7 August, 2015)
- Where are your valiant warriors and your priests? Where are your hunting parties and your feasts? Where is that warlike mien, and where are those? Great armies that destroyed our country's foes? . . . Count Iran as a ruin, as the lair of lions and leopards! Look now and despair!
- Ferdowsi, as quoted by Reza Aslan in "The Epic of Iran", The New York Times (30 April 2006).
- Kaiumers first sat upon the throne of Persia, and was master of the world.
- Ferdowsi, as quoted in "Persia's crowning glory", BBC (4 June 2000)
- Iran has a long history. People of the world can learn much from the portrayal of Iranian civilization by the Iranian arts over such a long period of time.
- Paul Sheldon Foote, as quoted in "Iranian culture in the Eyes of Americans" by Moj News Agency (2007).
- Most of the cultures of Asia identify with Iran on some level, much as Westerners do with Greece and Rome.
- Richard Foltz, as quoted in "From Zoroastrianism to Islam: taking stock of religion in Iran", Concordia.ca
- US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on June 13, 2019, blamed Iran for attacks on ships in the Gulf of Oman. Iran had no motive for the recent attack on civilian vessels in the Gulf of Oman, but the US has motives to falsely blame Iran for it. It appears that Mike Pompeo has a hard time kicking his old habits. He appears to be as smug about lying as a CIA operative as he is as Secretary of State. Categorically blaming the Iranians for the recent oil attack tankers has left allies scratching their heads; and perhaps leaving foes thinking: "Thank God my enemy is so stupid"!
On June 13, 2019, as Ayatollah Khamenei was holding talks in Tehran with Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, two oil tankers carrying oil to Japan were attacked. As investigations into the incident were just beginning, Pompeo had already concluded his assessment and had it ready for the press. Much to the audible surprise of the world, and without any proof or supporting documents, he laid the blame firmly at Iran's feet citing "intelligence"... Having Saudi Arabia cower to US demands, demonizing Iran, intimidating allies and non-allies with fear of conflict in the region in order to press further demands on Iran, increase in the price of oil, and the weapons that would be purchased by US allies in the nervous neighborhood, seems like a win-win situation for America. For now.
- The White House has yet to fully address why an Iranian government, when it receives the estimated $150 billion windfall from unfrozen assets that's to follow sanctions relief plus the benefits of reopened trade, will not significantly increase its terror-sponsorship in the short term.
- Nicholas M. Gallagher, "Iran Unbowed: State Dept: Iran Still a Leading Terror Sponsor", The American Interest, (23 June 2015).
- Everything I learned about Iranians, I learned working in the pool room. I met a lot of liars, and I know Iranians are liars.
- Lindsey Graham, as quoted in "Republican conference: Day two - Bush 'proud' of family" (22 May 2015), by Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation.
- One of the signs of Iran's underdevelopment is the culture of rumor and paranoia that attributes all ills to the manipulation of various demons and satans. And, of course, the long and rich history of British imperial intervention in Persia does provide some support for the notion. But you have no idea how deep is the primitive belief that it is the Anglo-Saxons—more than the CIA, more even than the Jews—who are the puppet masters of everything that happens in Iran.
- Since the U.S. had previously seemed to be a protector of the right to self-determination, Iranians felt terribly betrayed when the CIA overthrew the democratically elected constitutional government headed by Mosaddeq and installed the Shah. Then, with increasing visibility and high-handedness, both "American government and business interests acted the role of the exploiter and corrupter."
- Richard A. Horsley, Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), pp. 68-69.
- Casting the Trump administration's credibility gap into sharp relief, allies like Japan and Germany have demanded more "credible" evidence to support the U.S. claim. While President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have been unequivocal in their assertion that Iran was responsible for the attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week, some of America's closest allies are demanding more proof.
Both Japan and Germany have requested more concrete evidence to support the Trump administration's insistence that Iran was behind the twin attacks on the Norwegian-owned Front Altar and the Japanese-owned Kokuka Courageous near the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday. Jeremy Corbyn, Britain's opposition leader, said more "credible evidence" was needed to support Trump's allegation.... According to The New York Times, other European leaders have also been hesitant to lay the blame on Iran ― a doubt fueled in part by their "distrust of the Trump administration and its hawkish policy toward Tehran," the paper said.
- In Iran, a top government official recently said that torture followed by death is the appropriate punishment for being gay.
- Chuck Hustmyre, "The Left's love affair with Islam" (1 December 2009), Jihad Watch
- There are approximately 100,000 clerics in Iran and over 60,000 of them are in Qom. Most of them are theology students who have been studying there for many years, between 10-25 years on average.... Every student has to study a minimum of 25 years before he can attain the status of 'ayatollah', however most students spend 10 years studying in the hawza.
- I come from the noble land of Iran, representing a great and renowned nation, famous for its age old civilization as well as its distinguished contribution to the founding and expansion of the Islamic civilization; a nation that has survived the strong winds of despotism, reactionism and submission, relying on its cultural and human wealth; a nation which pioneered in the East the establishment of civil society and constitutional government in the course of its contemporary history, even though as a result of foreign interference and domestic deficiencies, at times it may have faltered in its course; a nation which has been at the forefront of the struggle for independence and against colonialism, though its national movement was subverted by a foreign- orchestrated coup. And, a nation which carries the torch of its popular revolution, not won by force of arms or a coup, but by dethroning of the regime of coup d'etat through the power of "word" and "enlightenment". In the course of its new experience, our nation has endured eight years of an imposed war, pressure, sanctions and various allegations. It has also fallen victim to terrorism, this ominous and sinister phenomenon of the twentieth century.
- Iran was indeed Islamized, but it was not Arabized. Persians remained Persians. And after an interval of silence, Iran reemerged as a separate, different and distinctive element within Islam, eventually adding a new element even to Islam itself. Culturally, politically, and most remarkable of all even religiously, the Iranian contribution to this new Islamic civilization is of immense importance. The work of Iranians can be seen in every field of cultural endeavor, including Arabic poetry, to which poets of Iranian origin composing their poems in Arabic made a very significant contribution. In a sense, Iranian Islam is a second advent of Islam itself, a new Islam sometimes referred to as Islam-i Ajam. It was this Persian Islam, rather than the original Arab Islam, that was brought to new areas and new peoples: to the Turks, first in Central Asia and then in the Middle East in the country which came to be called Turkey, and India. The Ottoman Turks brought a form of Iranian civilization to the walls of Vienna...
- Bernard Lewis, Archived copy. Archived from the original on 2007-04-29. Retrieved on 2007-04-03.
- The few and the wealthy of many nations are no longer constrained by rules that categorize civilized and enlightened behavior toward other nations such as Venezuela and Iran.
- Howard Lisnoff The Mother of All Bombs: U.S. Foreign Policy, CounterPunch, (6 February 2019)
- Whereas now Iranian cinema shows the Iranian people to the world. The US has tried very hard to make an entire people out to be terrorists. The Iranian cinema tries to say that the Iranian people are very warm and poetic people.
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf, as quoted in "Gabbeh and A Moment of Innocence: two films directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf", WSWS (23 September 2006).
- Iranian leaders regularly pray for America's death. We currently tolerate this hatred because we don't seem to fear its consequences.
- [[James D. Miller], "An Empire? You ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" (14 April 2004), Tech Central Station.
- As an Iranian Jew raised in Tehran, educated in the United States, and a frequent visitor to Israel, the nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran has pulled me in different directions. Like many Iranians, I am thankful that – at least for now – my country of birth will be spared a military attack. As a naturalized American, I am keen to avoid another costly entanglement in the abyss that is called the Middle East. But as a Jew? This is where my loyalties seem questionable to the large Iranian-American Jewish community, which avidly supports the state of Israel. As a Jew I am expected to condemn any accommodation with a regime that denies the holocaust and routinely calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. As a Jew I am steadfast in my defense of the country that is resolute in its defense of the Jewish cause. As a Jew I tread with caution. As an Iranian I march with hope. I understand and appreciate this dichotomy. Being a Jew was never easy in a Muslim country. Like Esther and Mordechai and the feast of Purim, our story has had biblical dimensions of miracles and misfortunes. Iranian Jews were emancipated by Cyrus the Great and alternatively integrated or persecuted by successive Persian dynasties that spanned 2500 years.But they mostly persevered, adopted the language and the customs, and made indelible contributions to one of the most beautiful cultures in the world. The large Iranian-American Jewish community in the United States, whose population is estimated to be close to 120,000, still speak, read, and write Farsi, celebrate Persian holidays, and reminisce about the "good old days before the revolution". But even as they yearn for a free Iran, they do not see themselves as part of its future. Iran is no longer Persian, they say. It has become a strange hybrid Arab country that threatens the existence of Israel. In that vein, any threat, real or perceived, prompts an emotional response in my community on a par with receiving catastrophic news. In fact, any news short of a complete change to liberal democracy is considered unacceptable. But western-style democracy has eluded Iran for centuries, and the reality is that the nuclear train has already left the station. The best the world can do is to put mechanisms in place that may alter the behavior of the regime, in the hope of gradual normalization of relations between Iran and the west. Is it guaranteed? Absolutely not. Is it worth a try? Yes.
- Nazee Moinian, "I am a Jewish Iranian-American in favor of the nuclear deal", The Guardian (12 August, 2015)
- Iran is the land of lofty mystics and a treasure of spirituality.
- Majd Nasseri, as quoted in "Iran Helping Turkey Organize Rumi Confab", Iran Daily (17 March 2007).
- Revolution in Iran happened because the people of Iran wanted democracy and freedom and an end to the constant foreign intervention in the country's affairs, and Khomeini promised to deliver all they wanted. They looked up to him, as he had strongly stood up against the Shah and had refused to back off. Most of his supporters, whether secular or religious, were not aware that he was planning to leave the power in the hands of one high-ranking cleric to basically govern the country. Khomeini and his advisors rewrote their proposed constitution, which was based on Islamic laws. Soon, the newspapers that had in any way criticized Khomeini and his plans were shut down, and those protesting the closings were attacked. Opposition groups were banned ... Iran is a country that is suffering from the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and the trauma that has caused this condition continues... It would be logical to say that Iran's bubble has to burst, and it has to burst on its own and not through foreign intervention. I'm sure that as you read some of Iran's history during the last few pages, you have come to see that, sooner or later, foreign intervention leads to catastrophe. It is different, for example, when a country falls into civil war and the United Nations has to move in to save lives... Bombing Iran would be the wrong way to burst the bubble. Democracy is not a sudden event; it is a long process which cannot be rushed. In a way, Iran has had to go all the way back and replay the parts of its history from which it had been robbed. The way Reza Shah pushed Iranians and made the women take off their hejabs and tried to take religion out of people's lives when they were not ready for it was doomed to have severe consequences, which we witnessed after the Islamic revolution.
- Marina Nemat, Democracy in Iran? Will we ever see the day?.
- Iran was in war with Iraq for 8 years, and Ayatollah Khomeini tried to topple Saddam, but he failed. Then, a few years later, in 2003, the U.S. entered Iraq and got rid of Saddam, but it got tangled in a never-ending conflict that turned Iraq into rubble and killed thousands of innocent Iraqis. Who is the winner of this terrible war? In my humble opinion, it is the Iranian regime, because with Saddam gone, they have tried to encourage an Islamic Republic in Iraq, which is the only other country with a majority Shia population in the region, and if this becomes reality, it could turn Iran into a huge power in the region. Actually, the U.S. invasion of Iraq greatly damaged the opposition in Iran, as now anyone who criticizes the Iranian regime is accused of asking for a U.S. invasion of Iran and working for the CIA. So one of the undisputable side effects of this war has been the strengthening of the government of Iran... Is democracy possible in Iran? Yes, it is. For many years, the people of Iran have wanted democracy, but they have been sabotaged not only by foreign powers but also by their own leaders. Now, the only way to find democracy would be to allow it to complete its process. And this process can speed up if the people of Iran take a hard look at their history, acknowledge and study its horrors, and try to learn from it. Even though foreigners have intervened in our affairs, we cannot throw all the responsibility onto their shoulders. The opposition in Iran is scattered and disorganized. Most opposition groups hang on to old ideologies that have become obsolete, and they refuse to see that an ideology driven leadership is not what the country needs. We need a government with strong ethical codes to protect all Iranians, including minorities, and in order to have such a government, we need a constitution that can support it. But how can we get there?
- Marina Nemat, Democracy in Iran? Will we ever see the day?.
- Iran is a very young country... Violence should remain the last resort in bringing democracy to Iran. Enough innocent people have died... Gandhi led his country to independence through non-violent civil disobedience, and if this was possible in India, it is also possible in Iran.
- Marina Nemat, Democracy in Iran? Will we ever see the day?.
- As dangerous as a nuclear-armed North Korea is, it pales in comparison to the danger of a nuclear-armed Iran. A nuclear-armed Iran in the Middle East wouldn't be another North Korea. It would be another 50 North Koreas.
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- Our differences are real, and the difficult history between our nations cannot be ignored. But it is possible to change. The path of violence and rigid ideology, a foreign policy based on threats to attack your neighbors or eradicate Israel—that's a dead end. A different path, one of tolerance and peaceful resolution of conflict, leads to more integration into the global economy, more engagement with the international community, and the ability of the Iranian people to prosper and thrive.
- Barack H. Obama II, "Statement by the President on Iran" (14 July 2015).
- Iranian society is multi-ethnic and multi-religious and blessed with a rich culture. All the national and religious identities of the Middle East can be found there. This diversity is in contrast to the hegemonic claim of the theocracy, which cultivates a subtle religious and ethnic nationalism; the ruling class does not shrink back from anti-modernist propaganda whenever it serves their interests, although they implement capitalist modernity.
- Abdullah Ocalan,The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan, p.52
- Only Iran, in fact, still holds out the promise of sustaining Obama's initial hopes for a fresh start with Muslims.
- Iran is not North Korea. It's far worse. Pyongyang's dictators never plotted terrorist attacks across five continents and in thirty cities, including Washington, D.C. Tehran's Ayatollahs did. North Korea is not actively undermining pro-western governments in its region or planting agents in South America. Iran is. And North Korea, unlike Iran, did not kill many hundreds of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
- Michael Oren, "Why Israel Won't Be Celebrating the Iran Deal", Time (14 July 2015).
- Foreign travellers in Iran, not only recently but in previous generations, have observed that some of our citizens habitually lie … In our culture, steeped in history as we are, some liars actually try to explain and justify their behaviour by referring back to past national catastrophes. For example, they will tell you, when Mongol hordes overran the country, lying was the price to pay for personal survival ; and that gave us the habit of mendacity. Whatever its merits as an historical explanation, this point of view certainly offers a pitifully weak justification for today's liars.
- Muhammad Reza Pahlavi (1961) Mission for my Country, London, pp. 246-247.
- Taking Iran's history as witness, I declare that we, the Pahlavi Dynasty, nurse no love but that for Iran, and no zeal but that for the dignity of Iranians; recognise no duty but that of serving our state and our nation.
As the commander of this monarchy, I make a covenant with Iran's history that this golden epic of modern Iran will be carried on to complete victory, and that no power on earth shall ever be able to stand against the bond of steel between the Shah and the nation. We shall never again be caught unawares. The nation and the Imperial Arrned Forces, which come from the ranks of the people and derive their power from our inexhaustible national resources, are alert day in and day out to protect their country. No foreigner or his agents will ever have the chance to penetrate the unshakable structure of our national sovereignty because Iran's destiny is now shaped by Iranians and for Iranians - and this shall always be the case.
- I envisaged future generations of Iranians proudly taking their rightful place among the vast family of nations, and fulfilling their responsibilities with dignity. I hoped to see dispelled for ever the medieval shadows from which Iran had emerged only half a century ago, and that the light which is the very essence of Iranian civilization and culture would prevail. Throughout my reign, I lived only for the realization of this dream which was beginning to become reality.
It will be seen that I worked tirelessly and keenly to this end. I had ceaselessly to struggle against all sorts of obstacles and difficulties. I had to confront innumerable plots and intrigues both inside the country and abroad. I combated the all-powerful, multi-national trusts and cartels when all my advisers warned me against such challenges. I may have made mistakes, of course, but this long battle was not one of them.
- Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, The Shah's Story (1980), p.11
- I found that many Americans did not even know that a country named Iran existed, let alone what it was like. Even among the diplomatic corps and among well-educated people, there was a vagueness about who the Iranians were or what the culture was, a tendency to confuse Iran with Iraq or to mistakenly assume that Iran is an Arab country simply because it is an Islamic nation. This fuzziness about the world outside is unique to America; among the intelligensia of European countries, for example, there is generally a higher level of awareness and information regarding cultures other than their own.
- Ashraf Pahlavi, Faces in a Mirror, Prentice Hall, p. 100. (1980)
- As I flew over the Shahyad monument, I saw that one corner was completely dark. A moment later I realized this black mass was a mass of Iranian women, women who had achieved one of the highest levels of emancipation in the Middle East. Here they were in the mournful black chador their grandmother had worn. My god, I thought, is this how it ends?
- Ashraf Pahlavi, In a memoir, Faces in a Mirror, p. 205 (1980)
- Persia's backward conditions were relics of social traditions ... and the women for that matter weren't ready to exchange the protection they had traditionally enjoyed for the unknowns of a new social status.
- Ashraf Pahlavi — In Tribute to Princess Ashraf Pahlavi: A Jewel of Iran (January 17, 2016)
- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's rush to judgement that Iran was behind the apparent attacks on two tanker ships last week has not galvanized world opinion against Iran, as the neocons hoped. Instead, it was met with high skepticism even among Washington's closest allies. Has the neocon practice of massively exaggerating and endlessly issuing threats finally destroyed US credibility on the world stage?
- There is a name missing from that Al Jazeera report (on the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution)...That name is Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran... deposed and imprisoned at the behest of powerful interests by Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill over access to Iranian oil. Western politicians and the mainstream journalists... shy away from the name Mosaddegh, for his name is an incantation summoning the bloody specter of blowback and the carnage that comes whenever the game of thrones is played for petroleum... "Mosaddegh" is a condemnation, a warning, and a lesson yet to be heeded by those in Washington, D.C., who believe their power and wealth means they can outrun consequences.
- Those 40 years of failure belong to the United States and Britain, to actions taken 66 years ago by politicians who also believed they could run through the raindrops as they played God for profit with the lives of others. The suffering of the Iranian people has "Made in the USA" and "God Save the Queen" stamped across it, a history lesson inked in blood. Remember the name Mohammad Mosaddegh the next time you hear a politician or businessman talk about bringing freedom somewhere. Like as not there's a buck to be turned, and the bodies will be buried where they drop. All the oil money in the whole wide world cannot outrun consequences.
- The relationship between Iran and the United States is a complicated and difficult question. There is a chronic wound, which is difficult to heal. However, it is not impossible provided there is goodwill and mutual respect between the two countries.
- Hassan Rouhani, as quoted in Iran election: Hassan Rouhani in his own words, BBC News: Middle East, (15 June 2013)
- We need to make it unmistakably clear that we will do whatever it takes, for however long it takes, to defeat radical Islamic terrorism. We will punish — we will punish their allies, like Iran — and we will stand with our allies, like Israel.
- Marco Rubio, Conservative Political Action Committee speech, 2010-02-19.
- Iran has more state-sanctioned executions per capita than any other country in the world, and over half those executed are drug traffickers. But the drug problem in Iran is so vast that it exposes the futility of draconian measures.
- Setareh Sabety, "Slaughterhouse review - an honest portrayal of Iran's drug problem", The Guardian (30 October 2015).
- All of us are Iranian and wherever and in whatever post we are should try to elevate status of our dear country.
- Majid Samii, as quoted in "Iranian professor says his medal belongs to whole Iranians" IRNA (29 September 2007)
- Attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman are unacceptable and must be fully investigated... but this incident must not be used as a pretext for a war with Iran, a war which would be an unmitigated disaster for the United States, Iran, the region, and the world... I would also remind President Trump that there is no congressional authorization for a war with Iran... A unilateral U.S. attack on Iran would be illegal and unconstitutional.
- They respect the value of my worth in Maui, Malaysia, Iran, and Iraq. Saudi Arabia!
- If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an un-free society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all. Consider the woman who is required to wear a veil. There is no modesty in this, because she is being compelled. Compulsion cannot produce virtue, it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue.
- Dinesh D'Souza, "10 things to celebrate: Why I'm an anti-anti-American" (29 June 2003), SFGate.
- With the way the world's going a nuclear Iran is going to be the least of our problems in 10 or 15 years. Iranian nukes will be a break from swimming through our climate-change flooded cities fighting ebola zombies with our teeth because we can't hold guns thanks to our iPhone-shaped hand tumors.
- John Stewart The Daily Show 21 July 2015.
- In Iran, the walls of homes are transparent and the halls of justice are opaque. This 'morality' campaign shows how fragile respect for privacy and personal dignity is in Iran today.
- Joe Stork, as quoted in "Iran: End Arrests on Immorality Charges", Human Rights News (17 May 2007)
- The Persians ruled for a thousand years and did not need us Arabs even for a day. We have been ruling them for one or two centuries and cannot do without them for an hour.
- Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik (717) in Bertold Spuler. The Muslim World. Vol. I The Age of the Caliphs. Leiden. E.J. Brill. 1960 ISBN 0-685-23328-6 p. 29.
- If we regard Iran as a nation, there is no reason it shouldn't have correct relations with the United States or any other country. Decades of opinion polls show that a majority of Iranians have a good opinion of America. But Iran today suffers from a split personality: It is both a nation and, as the Islamic Republic, also a messianic cause. And the Islamic Republic of Iran, far from being part of the solution, is at the root of the conflict tearing the Middle East apart. It has built Shiite militias in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, not to mention Afghanistan, with the aim of "exporting" its Khomeinist ideology. The mullahs' quest for an empire has provoked violent reaction from Sunni Arabs and enabled terrorist outfits such as al Qaeda in its many versions, including ISIS, to find a new audience and a narrative of victimhood. As long as Iran remains a "cause," it can't normalize relations with anybody, let alone America. Coexistence among nations is not the same as that among causes... What normal country has three former presidents, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Muhammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who can't obtain passports to travel abroad? And dozens of former high officials in jail, plus an ex-prime minister, Mir-Hussein Mussavi, and a former speaker of parliament, Mehdi Karrubi, under house arrest without charge?
- Amir Taheri, "Have the Mullah's Abandoned their Dreams of Empire?", Elaph.com, (November 16, 2014).
- In Iran, no-one can ignore the tragic record of the revolution. Over the past three decades some six million Iranians have fled their homeland. The Iran-Iraq war claimed almost a million lives on both sides. During the first four years of the Khomeinist regime alone 22,000 people were executed, according to Amnesty International. Since then, the number of executions has topped 80,000. More than five million people have spent some time in prison, often on trumped-up charges. In terms of purchasing power parity, the average Iranian today is poorer than he was before the revolution. De-Khomeinization does not mean holding the late ayatollah solely responsible for all that Iran has suffered just as Robespierre, Stalin, Mao, and Fidel Castro shared the blame with others in their respective countries. However, there is ample evidence that Khomeini was the principal source of the key decisions that led to tragedy... Memoirs and interviews and articles by dozens of Khomeini's former associates—including former Presidents Abol-Hassan Banisadr and Hashemi Rafsanjani and former Premier Mehdi Bazargan—make it clear that he was personally responsible for some of the new regime's worst excesses. These include the disbanding of the national army, the repression of the traditional Shi'ite clergy, and the creation of an atmosphere of terror, with targeted assassinations at home and abroad. Khomeini has become a symbol of what went wrong with Iran's wayward revolution. De-Khomeinization might not spell the end of Iran's miseries just as de-Stalinization and de-Maoization initially produced only minimal results. However, no nation can plan its future without coming to terms with its past.
- Amir Taheri, "Opinion: Iran must confront its past to move forwards", Ashraq Al-Awsat (February 6, 2015).
- For some 12 centuries poetry has been the Iranian people's principal medium of expression. Iran may be the only country where not a single home is found without at least one book of poems. Initially, Persian poets had a hard time to define their place in society. The newly converted Islamic rulers suspected the poets of trying to revive the Zoroastrian faith to undermine the new religion. Clerics saw poets as people who wished to keep the Persian language alive and thus sabotage the ascent of Arabic as the new lingua franca. Without the early Persian poets, Iranians might have ended up like so many other nations in the Middle East who lost their native languages and became Arabic speakers. Early on, Persian poets developed a strategy to check the ardor of the rulers and the mullahs. They started every qasida with praise to God and Prophet followed by panegyric for the ruler of the day. Once those "obligations" were out of the way they would move on to the real themes of the poems they wished to compose. Everyone knew that there was some trick involved but everyone accepted the result because it was good. Despite that modus vivendi some poets did end up in prison or in exile while many others spent their lives in hardship if not poverty. However, poets were never put to the sword. The Khomeinist regime is the first in Iran's history to have executed so many poets. Implicitly or explicitly, some rulers made it clear what the poet couldn't write. But none ever dreamt of telling the poet what he should write.
- Amir Taheri, When the Ayatollah Dictates Poetry, Ashraq Al-Awsat (11 July 2015).
- In the Islamic Republic... Mossadegh, far from being regarded as a national hero, is an object of intense vilification. One of the first acts of the mullahs after seizing power was to take the name of Mossadegh off a street in Tehran... Bush paid little attention to Iran. Nevertheless, in his second term he, too, tried to persuade the mullahs to modify their behavior. His secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, sent an invitation, not to say a begging note, to the mullahs for "constructive dialogue." They responded by stepping up the killing of US soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq by local surrogates... Before the revolution, Shiraz, with its breathtakingly beautiful architecture, was a city of gardens, wine and music with an annual international art festival. How could one not love Iran through it? Today, however, Shiraz... is a scene of public hangings and floggings, with its prisons filled with political and religious dissidents... The Islamic Republic has been top of the list in the world for the number of executions and political prisoners.
- Amir Taheri, What US leaders have never understood about Iran, New York Post (19 July 2015).
- As a nation-state, Iran has no problems with anybody. As a vehicle for the Khomeinist ideology it has problems with everybody, starting with the Iranian people. The Khomeinist regime makes no secret of its intense hatred for Iranian culture, which it claims has roots in "the age of ignorance" (jahiliyyah). To admire this regime because of Iranian culture is like admiring Hitler for Goethe and Beethoven and praising Stalin for Pushkin and Tchaikovsky. This regime has executed tens of thousands of Iranians, driven almost 6 million into exile, and deprived the nation of its basic freedoms. It has also killed more Americans, often through surrogates, than al Qaeda did on 9/11. Not a single day has passed without this regime holding some American hostages. Iran as a nation is a solid friend of America. Iran as a vehicle for the Khomeinist revolution is an eternal enemy of "The Great Satan." The only realistic strategy for the United States would be to help it stop being the Islamic Republic and become Iran again. President Obama's policy, however, points in the opposite direction. He has made it harder for the Iranian people to regain their human rights.
- Amir Taheri, What US leaders have never understood about Iran, New York Post (19 July 2015).
- I said, "Don't hit Iraq," because you're going to totally destabilize the Middle East. Iran is going to take over the Middle East, Iran and somebody else will get the oil, and it turned out that Iran is now taking over Iraq. Think of it. Iran is taking over Iraq, and they're taking it over big league.
- Donald Trump, at Trump Tower, 2015-06-16, speech announcing his candidacy for U.S. president — "Full text: Donald Trump announces a presidential bid", The Washington Post, 16 June 2015
- After the close call yesterday when you called off the planned military strike on Iran, we remain concerned that you are about to be mousetrapped into war with Iran. You have said you do not want such a war (no sane person would), and our comments below are based on that premise. There are troubling signs that Secretary Pompeo is not likely to jettison his more warlike approach, More importantly, we know from personal experience with Pompeo's dismissive attitude to instructions from you that his agenda can deviate from yours on issues of major consequence.
Pompeo's behavior betrays a strong desire to resort to military action — perhaps even without your approval — to Iranian provocations (real or imagined), with no discernible strategic goal other than to advance the interests of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. He is a neophyte compared to his anti-Iran partner John Bolton, whose dilettante approach to interpreting intelligence, strong advocacy of the misbegotten war on Iraq (and continued pride in his role in promoting it), and fierce pursuit of his own aggressive agenda are a matter of a decades-long record. You may not be fully aware of our experience with Pompeo, who has now taken the lead on Iran. That experience leaves us with strong doubt regarding his trustworthiness.
- Frequent problems with intelligence and Cheney-style hyperbole help explain why CENTCOM commander Admiral William Fallon in early 2007 blurted out that "an attack on Iran " will not happen on my watch," as Bush kept sending additional carrier groups into the Persian Gulf. Hillary Mann, the administration's former National Security Council director for Iran and Persian Gulf Affairs, warned at the time that some Bush advisers secretly wanted an excuse to attack Iran. "They intend to be as provocative as possible and make the Iranians do something [America] would be forced to retaliate for," she told Newsweek. Deja vu. A National Intelligence Estimate issued in November 2007 concluded unanimously that Iran had stopped working on a nuclear weapon in 2003 and had not resumed such work...
We seldom quote media commentators, but we think Tucker Carlson had it right yesterday evening: "The very people — in some cases, literally the same people who lured us into the Iraq quagmire 16 years ago — are demanding a new war — this one with Iran. Carlson described you as "skeptical." We believe ample skepticism is warranted.


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Santa Clara Head Coach Jerry Smith
On the Broncos' second halves
"A part of it is when you travel, you're legs get taken out from under you a little bit and you're maybe not as enthusiastic as you would be if you were playing in front of your own fans at home and so, I think that's typical of teams playing on the road. Secondly, when teams play against us, they've very energized to play against us. They probably use most of their energy in the first half staying with us, they run out of gas a little bit in the second half and we have a chance to take over. Often times when teams play against us, they're worried about us scoring a bunch of goals against us, so it's kind-of a moral victory if the score is 0-0 at halftime, which these last two games were. That's kind of dangerous, they feel like they've accomplished something, but it's only halftime. So maybe they don't come out with as much energy, or maybe they don't have as much energy because they've used so much in the first half, while our team tries to maintain a steady level of energy. What looks like more energy from us in the second half is really just in comparison to our opponent having less energy."
On Syracuse
"They're a very well-coached team, well-organized team, disciplined and hardworking. They weren't going to put together a whole lot of dangerous attacks but we knew it would be tough for us to get behind and get dangerous shots off. It wasn't until the second half that we were able to do that."
On Dartmouth, SCU's next opponent
"Like this weekend's competition, Dartmouth's another team we don't know anything about. I'll have to find out what I can about them. We were to play them in the regular season, but that didn't happen. It'll be nice to play at home this weekend."
Santa Clara Freshman Forward Leslie Osborne
On her goal
"I chested it, and knew a girl was coming on me quickly, so I volleyed with my inside left foot to the far post. I knew the keeper thought I was going to go to the near post. I concentrated a lot more than I did in the first half, when I missed."
On going home for the third round
"I think we're going to pick it up and play a full 90 minutes on our field. We just proved this weekend that we deserve home-field advantage until we take it all the way to the College Cup."
On the team's slow starts in both NCAA matches
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One More. This Made Me Say...."WHA!!!!!" NEW SOX PITCHER....
From the Herald of Boston, minutes ago......
"The Red Sox' pursuit of Daisuke Matsuzaka is not finished but if and when he signs, the Japanese right-hander will have a countryman to keep him company in the clubhouse: Hideki Okajima.
According to a source, the Sox are expected to announce soon that they have signed the left-handed reliever, who will turn 31 on Christmas.
A Yomiuri Giant for 11 years until he moved to the Nippon Ham Fighters last season, Okajima is primarily a left-handed specialist, although he has been used as a set-up man and could grow into that role for the Sox. He is said to have a devastating curveball but is not a hard thrower.
Terms and length of the contract are not known, but it is believed the sides were discussing a two-year deal....."
Peter here. And ANY leftie for the bullpen, that empty space that we need filled to do ANYTHING this coming season, and a leftie with a devastating curveball (can you say Bruce Hurst?) to boot, sounds so good. I hope this is true. If so, the focus has turned to the bullpen, closer and set-up guys. And then the SS question will be answered. And then the Manny muckiness, and then......THAT'S IT! Enough for now. This SI article looked so good, and so "maybe" accurate, I had to put it up. Keep it here, my dear friends.


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New bookstore set to open soon
Despite some weather-related setbacks, Liberty University students will soon be able to enjoy the Barnes & Noble campus bookstore currently under construction on Main Campus.
Charles Spence, Liberty's director of planning and new construction, said the bookstore should be open for student use on April 18.
"We are in a hard press now to complete the work," Spence said. "The weather has been bad for our paving and landscaping, and this has also slowed some of the work on the inside, but we are pressing hard to assure that all is ready for the grand opening."
The new bookstore is located across from Williams Stadium, and is 20,000 square feet — twice the size of the current campus bookstore in the Arthur S. DeMoss Learning Center. The new two-story brick facility will feature a café and outdoor patio area, and will sell textbooks, leisure books and more.