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
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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