Dear President Obama

Jahangir Azami — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:33:55 +0000

Dear President Obama

Like hundreds of thousands of Iranian-Americans I voted for you. I believed in your message of peace, hope and change to put people ahead of the politics. I thought you were at the right side of the history and your vision for our future on Earth from Green Energy to taking care of people’s health resonated to many of us who migrated from Iran. Back then, I even supported your “carrot and stick” policy and talk with Iran’s government on the subject of Nuclear Energy.

Chronicles of a nation in stress (1)

Jahangir Azami — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:48:07 +0000

In less than three weeks in June, a nation forced for decades to keep her collective desire for freedom behind closed doors and hidden in the minds without daring to speak rose from the ashes as one and electrified the world with her courage, her passion and her morality. For three decades, in the world view, the name of Iran had been equated with repression, human rights abuses and angry empty slogans against any and all. In three weeks in June, Iranians once again have become the symbols of freedom and the Persian nation has shown her thirst to be free.

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Dear President Obama

Chronicles of a nation in stress (1)