Mrs. Thatcher called in the middle of the night. She was very excited, and from among her half eaten words, I understood that I was to join some meeting. “Now?” I asked her. She said yes. I was in Tehran, and given the circumstances, even if I dared to pack and go to the airport [...]
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Since the start of the protests, the absence of slogans on the walls of Tehran was distressing to me. I expected them to materialize en masse since the early days of the unrests, but they only showed on a small scale, one here, another there. I kept thinking perhaps we were too busy attending rallies [...]
Friday Prayers, the scene for this week’s assembly of protesters, was crammed. How many showed at the event at and around Tehran University is impossible to determine. On a normal day, the area inside and around the university takes in about fifty to a hundred thousand people, but yesterday’s ceremony, the first for many – [...]