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Older than most countries & civilizations on this planet & now in the world news for disputed election related unrest - but if you are just starting to read a lot about Iran, here is a whole lot of info. - links from Wikipedia covering over 5,000 year (that's right, FIVE THOUSAND - that's like 50 or more human lifetimes - if you were lucky enough to live a 100 years every single time) - apparently one of the oldest nations in the current world (up there with Egypt, China, India, & one time peers of the Ancient Greeks & Romans): " History of Iran Empires of Persia · Kings of Persia BC Prehistory Proto-Elamite civilization 3200–2800 Elamite dynasties 2800–550 Kassites 16th–12th cent. Kingdom of Mannai 10th–7th cent. Median Empire 728–550 Achaemenid Empire 550–330 Seleucid Empire 330–150 Parthian Empire 247– BC 226 AD Sassanid Empire 226–651 Afrighid dynasty ?–995 Patriarchal Caliphate 637–651 Umayyad Caliphate 661–750 Abba

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Found the novel A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo - enjoyable book so far (on page 34 at the moment) - the book is about a young woman from rural China moving to London. Had to share these few lines (in the book the character's English improves from chapter to chapter, as she learns more of it): "American films strange in London. People at Language School tell me use student card, I can have cheap cinema ticket. Last week I go Prince Charles in Chinatown. They say is cheapest cinema in London. Two films screening: Moholland Drive , and Blue Velvet . All together is more than 4 hours. Perfect for my lonely nights. So I buy tickets and get in. What crazy films! I not understanding very much the English speakings, but I understand I must never walk in highway at night alone." Funny. Get a copy of Concise here . - Sujewa :: ADVERTISEMENT Farzad Rostami Delaware Tobacco blog post 3/24/13: http://farzadrostami

While other traditional media outlets are quoting Twitter feeds & YouTube clips, The Times' Roger Cohen is in Tehran, seeing the second Iranian revolution happen in person & dealing with tear gas attacks. From the article : "Dark smoke billowed over this vast city in the late afternoon. Motorbikes were set on fire, sending bursts of bright flame skyward. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , the supreme leader, had used his Friday sermon to declare high noon in Tehran, warning of “bloodshed and chaos” if protests over a disputed election persisted. He got both on Saturday — and saw the hitherto sacrosanct authority of his office challenged as never before since the 1979 revolution birthed the Islamic Republic and conceived for it a leadership post standing at the very flank of the Prophet. A multitude of Iranians took their fight through a holy breach on Saturday from which there appears to be scant turning back." Read the rest of Cohen's article at New York Times .