Thursday, September 05, 2013

Iran hosts a large Jewish population. This may not be official, but, I believe it is sincere. A very decent and civilized thing to do.

6:07PM BST 05 Sep 2013



The greeting on a Twitter account (click here) believed to be run with Mr Rouhani's blessing caused a stir on social media by announcing: "As the sun is about to set here in #Tehran I wish all Jews, especially Iranian Jews, a blessed Rosh Hashanah [the Jewish new year]."
It was accompanied by a picture of an Iranian Jew praying at a Tehran synagogue....

There is absolutely no reason to give up on a peaceful Middle East. It is possible.

There is a silver lining in the election of President Rouhani, but, it will never be found it one does not look for it.