The surprising thing is that we’re surprised by Tehran’s actions
TIMESONLINE: Oscar Wilde insisted that “life imitates art far more than art imitates art”. What would he have made of the present hostage crisis? Twenty-four hours before Iran seized 15 Britons its mission to the UN issued a statement expressing outrage at 300, a movie based on the Battle of Thermopylae in 480BC. In this epic struggle between a small band of Spartans and a massive army of Persians, the ancestors of modern Iran have been painted, the protest ran, as the “embodiment of evil, moral corruption”. They have a point. According to Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History at Cambridge University, Persia was “not a one-dimensional barbaric despotism” but, then again, it was “by no means well disposed to Greek-style democracy” either. Bullying, manipulative Iran? No change there, then by Tim Hames
Mark Alexander
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War and civil war are on the way, Rustresistance! There can surely be no doubt about this. And all because the idiotic liberal so-called élite has experimented one step too far in social engineering. Dark clouds are gathering on the horizon!
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