Thursday, October 27, 2005
Iran
This is a great article about stepping into the land that is Iran.
Telegraph | News: "'We would welcome your troops with flowers...'
While Iraq has been grabbing the headlines, Iran, its once tempestuous neighbour, has been relatively quiet - or has it? John Casey spent two weeks in the country and found that a new generation has tired of the claustrophobic rule of the old mullahs, so much so that many people envy the invasion of Iraq
Wednesday April 9 was an interesting day to be an Englishman in Teheran.
That morning, I had visited the British Embassy, which was expecting a demonstration shortly. Demonstrators had broken windows a few days before. And, earlier, a car laden with drums of oil had crashed into the front of the building and burnt. (The Iranian authorities insisted it was an accident.)
After a while, I noticed that some quiet discussion was going on. Everyone was so notably calm that I guessed something must be up. They had received warning of a possible rocket attack on the Embassy, where it faces the main road. "
Telegraph | News: "'We would welcome your troops with flowers...'
While Iraq has been grabbing the headlines, Iran, its once tempestuous neighbour, has been relatively quiet - or has it? John Casey spent two weeks in the country and found that a new generation has tired of the claustrophobic rule of the old mullahs, so much so that many people envy the invasion of Iraq
Wednesday April 9 was an interesting day to be an Englishman in Teheran.
That morning, I had visited the British Embassy, which was expecting a demonstration shortly. Demonstrators had broken windows a few days before. And, earlier, a car laden with drums of oil had crashed into the front of the building and burnt. (The Iranian authorities insisted it was an accident.)
After a while, I noticed that some quiet discussion was going on. Everyone was so notably calm that I guessed something must be up. They had received warning of a possible rocket attack on the Embassy, where it faces the main road. "
