Iran, you know, is Persia, the Homeland of Persians,

which, who, while they may now be writhing under the disgusting and humiliating hegemony of Mullahs and Ayatollahs--Of course in our secular, Western understanding this makes them Utter Barbarians Who Know Not The Law--But there are 81,000,000 of them, peculiarly ethnically distinct (and, in my opinion, ordinarily, physically strikingly beautiful), and they are used, in their long history, at various times, to being the most extraordinarily civilized people on the planet. Among the things you have to mention, along with the Taj Mahal, and the Parthenon, and the stained glass in the cathedral at Chartres, is the dome of the Shah Mosque at Isfahan.  If Mr. Bolton thinks he can nuke that with impunity, he's got another think coming.

Did anyone mention Mossadegh?