As I was perusing BBC's website for world news, I came upon a few (of the latest!) articles on Iran. Some are political and debate the multitude of theories now circulating on how best to handle relations with Iran, especially in the US.
One particular story is especially interesting for me because it quotes Dr. Abbas Milani, a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, whom I collaborated with on a Persian translation project in May 2004. In fact, the urgency of the project (for a conference on the future of democracy in Iran) was the reason I pulled an all-nighter the night before my graduation day from U.Va.!
As a side note, his book Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Modernity in Iran is one of the best I have ever read, fusing Iranian and Western history, literature and culture to push forward beautifully written, lucid arguments about the presence and absence of modernity in Iran.
Other BBC articles discuss the human angle of the current "Iran situation", relating the stories of displaced young Iranians and second generation "hyphenated" world citizens.
I am notoriously apolitical, at least on paper, but I offer these links as a means to view the current Iranian/American situation from a slightly different angle. Fox News, this ain't.
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