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As Iran enters a new century, many old challenges remain
A student visiting the Museum of Historical Cars on a field trip looks at a carriage (R) used by Qajar dynasty King Nasser al-Din Shah and the coronation carriage of King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in Tehran March 10, 2011. The carriages were both built in Austria and are housed at the museum which opened in 2001 and has a collection of rare antique cars belonging to the former royal families of Iran and private collections. REUTERS/Caren Firouz
For Iranians, the upcoming spring solstice marks not just a new year,
Nowruz, but also the beginning of a new century on their calendar the year 1400. Despite significant advances in education, modernization, territorial cohesiveness, and purported regional influence, many of Iran’s old trials and tribulations remain. These include dysfunctional politics and gridlock and economic insecurity and inequality for a sizeable share of its eighty-three million population, as well as conten
Book World: America and Iran, from fascination to antagonism
Ray Takeyh, The Washington Post
Feb. 26, 2021
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By John Ghazvinian
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The story of America s relations with Iran needs a re-examination. Why have these two nations nurtured such obsessive antagonism toward each other? Former journalist John Ghazvinian steps into the charged arena with a doorstop of a book that promises to answer the question. But after some brassy assertions in the preface, Ghazvinian s uneven and often tendentious account only compounds the confusion.
The relationship started well. There was mutual fascination. In America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present, Ghazvinian describes some enchanting early encounters. The American Founding Fathers, rum dealers and missionaries were all drawn to Iran. This was not unusual. Wide-eyed Westerners were often intrigued by the Orient and its seemingly mysterious ways. Just as China
US should pay Iran reparations
David Swanson | Published: 00:00, Feb 09,2021 | Updated: 22:28, Feb 08,2021
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi meets US president Jimmy Carter in 1977. World Socialist Web Site
WHY would I say such an outrageous, treasonous, delusional, obviously-funded-by-Putin thing? Am I hoping to enrage war-crazed sadists who’ve seen too much television ‘news’?
Not at all. I want them to still be around when I say that it would actually be preferable for the United States to pay reparations to the entire rest of the earth.
Well, then, why would I say such a thing, and exactly what type of mental disorder would allow me to believe the Iranian government to be saintly perfection?