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  America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no...
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Ed Koch when he was Mayor Koch use to ask that very question to New Yorkers walking down the streets of New York quite...
I. History of Nowruz Imagine it’s the fifth century before the Common Era, on a plain bejeweled with a magnificent palace complex and flowing gardens,...
February 1, 1979. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fourteen year exile was finally coming to an end. From Neauphle-le-Château where he had spent only a few...

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The last month in Iran has been full of little clues and a few intrigues. I will try to pare them down. This update...
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Ashura 1388 - December 27, 2009, begins over 1,300 years ago. During the three year reign of Yazid I (680-683 CE) of the Ummayad...
30 Azar 1388 - December 21, 2009. The epicenter of the clerical establishment of Iran, the city of Qom, about a hundred miles southwest...

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