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Escape from Tehran, or Ruminations of the Essence of America

Friday, April 27, 2007

What with the lack of real diplomatic relations between the United States and Iran, a significant portion of what I have read in the past couple of months about Iran has focused on the hostage crisis. Back in January, I stumbled across Mark Bowden's article in the May 2006 issue of The Atlantic about Operation [...]

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To the Designers of Iranian President Ahmadinejad's New Blog

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

I do not know who designed President Ahmadinejad's blog, but they did not do a good job.
The Good Stuff

Easy to remember URL.
Nice use of AJAX.

The Bad Stuff
Using Visual Studio .NET 7.1 and a table-based design to create the page. Speaking of which, the site should degrade gratefully if JavaScript is disabled.
Spelling errors. While I can [...]

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Iran and the Combination of Government and Religion

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

A confession: I read my news out of order. Yesterday, I read the letter that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent to President George W. Bush. What with all its talk of monotheism, I did not like it:
Liberalism and Western style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts [...]

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