A Blog by the Editor of The Middle East Journal

Putting Middle Eastern Events in Cultural and Historical Context

Monday, July 13, 2009

The Persians are Coming, the Persians are Coming!

A somewhat wry story in the Washington Post notes that Washington has been warning for months about the fact that Iran is building a huge new embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, except that it isn't. A Congressman compared it to Russian funding of Cuba, but Cuba was getting a million dollars a day in mid-2oth century dollars, and Iran's not that flush. Abu Muqawama comments on the story as well.

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