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Magic Carpets Over Persia

As a child I had been entranced the the legend of the magic carpet. My mother thought I was funny sitting on the carpet in the living room, trying to fly it like a plane. I was not kidding, so when my father came home from work in April of 1965 to say that his […]

Anti-Mullah Fun

Ever since Ayatollah Kohmeni returned from exile to oust the Shah, the Mullahs in Iran have proscribed fun from the lives of the common folk. No music, no dancing, no drinking, no nothing have transformed the Shah’s secular state into a Land of No stricter than the New Jersey Shore or Tulsa, Oklahoma, however Iranians […]