Iran

My (occasionally long-winded) buddy The Brooding Persian has a good post about the latest rant from Iran’s president:

What we’ve got now—and I mean the Iranian nation, our neighbours and the broader global community—with this witches brew of nativist authoritarianism, Shi’ia theology, Mr. Huntington’s creative profundities and a bit of second hand Carl Schmitt from-god-knows-where, coupled with belligerent adventurism of foreign powers–is what a nice lady once described long ago as the “devil’s cauldron.”

He also posts about some good news.

I haven’t seen TBP in a few years. We had tentative plans to get together this summer, but that was contingent on Iran and Israel qualifying for the World Cup. (I figure that’s about the only circumstance under which I’d visit Germany.) Unfortunately, the Israelis didn’t keep up their part of the bargain.