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POPSIran Has A New Leader--Maybe Iran has a very young voting population and the majority seems to want a change in government. Two Iranian women, believed to be in their 20s expressed one idea I thought important, "We don't want to be Isolated Anymore!". Right! The world will continue to evolve and leave closed door societies behind and the young people in Iran realize what is happening with or without them. The World will have to wait and see who wins in Iran.
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POPSBBC: "Iran's proud but discreet Jews". The Truth, but not as you know it. Mahmoud Ahmedinejad office recently donated money for Tehran's Jewish hospital. It is one of only four Jewish charity hospitals worldwide and is funded with money from the Jewish diaspora - something remarkable in Iran where even local aid organisations have difficulty receiving funds from abroad for fear of being accused of being foreign agents. Most of the patients and staff are Muslim these days, but director Ciamak Morsathegh is Jewish. "Anti-Semitism is not an eastern phenomenon, it's not an Islamic or Iranian phenomenon - anti-Semitism is a European phenomenon," he says, arguing that Jews in Iran even in their worst days never suffered as much as they did in Europe. ... BBC