All Things Persia

I failed to mention that I commemorated the 9/11 attacks with a big dinner in an Iranian restaurant. Love their kebabs. Hate their nuclear program. Lukewarm on their yogurts.

Did you know that Iranians have crossword puzzles in their newspapers? The difference is that the numbers ascend from right to left, and they don’t put the numbers in the squares but along the edges of the grid. Do you think anyone could possibly get good at Iranian crossword puzzles merely by studying the previous day’s puzzle answer every day, and never actually learning the language?

Of course, I couldn’t read the Iranian newspaper, but I saw a lot of pictures of that Iranian cleric who was recenty spouting off about the Zionist Catastrophe. God, I hope the articles were not glowing tributes.