on victory

for Dan Froomkin

RIP

‘These are fine lines but we know the cost of crossing them. The memory of foreign intervention throughout their history is deep within all Iranians.’

my interview with Akbar Ganji

99 problems but my PITCH ain’t one

“On Saturday and Sunday several people commented that ‘they have turned the city in Palestine.’ The they referred to the Iranian authorities”

new GSSP

Mir Hussein Moussavi covered by @PersianKiwi

I didn’t mean to get bogged down in a friendly dispute with George Packer, I really didn’t