Dear Farnaz:

“Well , you know sometimes even Farnazes should do some a&& kicking , even though they are beautiful , elegant and high in status. lol“- I tend to notice my first smile of the day, and .. here it is!

 “She wouldn’t be happy if everybody is happy, she should be happier than others, that’s why she made every situation about herself by ruining the day or the occasion“-makes me think of the saying Misery likes Company. An edit of the saying, especially tailored for her would be: Your Misery is makes me feel better. It reminds me of my mother…

“I don`t understand how our differences make it enjoyable? Could you elaborate?“- I didn’t think or mean that your father enjoyed the differences between you and your step mother while the two of you competed for his affection (he enjoyed the competition itself). I added, as an afterthought, that the two of you competed for his affection in different ways.

“As far as I remember that was the longest protest in Iran and I hope that would end in something positive, they killed so many people in streets so far and claim the one who protest are brain washed by US government and ENEMIES OF THE REGIME… Apparently, Iran’s situation is so perfect in their minds and nobody with a functioning brain would protest“-

– last night on the News Hour, a program I watch, there was an interview with CIA director Willian Burns, and I thought of you, of course. This is part of the interview:

Judy Woodruff: “These unprecedented countrywide protests that Iran has seen after the death of a young woman in police custody, the morality police, is the regime now in serious jeopardy as a result of all this?

William Burns: “I think what struck our analysts at CIA is both the duration of those protests, now almost three months on, and their scope, because they seem to cut across Iranian society, cut across ethnicities, socioeconomic groups. It is about a growing number of Iranians who are fed up, who are fed up with economic decay, with corruption, with the social restrictions that especially affect Iranian women. They are fed up with political oppression, fed up with the denial of basic human dignity. So, in the short term, I would — I don’t think the Iranian regime perceives an immediate threat to its grip. It still has some very practiced habits of repression and brutality that it’s continuing to employ. In the long term, though, I think the reality is that this is an Iranian regime does not have good answers for what’s on the minds of a very young population, 70 percent of which today is under the age of 30”- I didn’t know that the Iranian society is so young… !

anita