{"id":760,"date":"2005-12-12T07:48:35","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T12:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/iran\/"},"modified":"2005-12-12T07:48:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T12:48:35","slug":"iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/iran","title":{"rendered":"Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

What we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve got now\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dand I mean the Iranian nation, our neighbours and the broader global community\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dwith this witches brew of nativist authoritarianism, Shi\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ia theology, Mr. Huntington\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s 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 \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cdevil\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s cauldron.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also posts about some good news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My (occasionally long-winded) buddy The Brooding Persian has a good post about the latest rant from Iran’s president: What we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve got now\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dand I mean the Iranian nation, our neighbours and the broader global community\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009dwith this witches brew of nativist authoritarianism, Shi\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ia theology, Mr. Huntington\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s creative profundities and a bit of second hand Carl Schmitt from-god-knows-where, … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Iran”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4C7K-iran","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":142,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/on-the-ground-in-iran","url_meta":{"origin":760,"position":0},"title":"On the ground in Iran","author":"Gil","date":"February 20, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"My pseudonymous buddy in Iran now has a blog! 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