yesterday and today, the semi-official US media have been going on and on about the alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US. There is more talk about sanctions against Iran, of course (since they've worked so well in the past to dislodge the Ahmadinejad government without having any negative impact on the Iranian people ;-) ).
One thing notable is the older issue of the hikers who were (to my mind, unfairly) jailed in Iran for their (idiotic) crossing of the border into Iran. What's interesting is that even though the two recently-freed prisoners complained about their ill-treatment in Iranian jails, the US government and media let the issue drop. I'd guess it's because the Iranians treated them pretty well by today's standards. US prisoners (in Guantanamo, etc.) have suffered from much worse -- and a lot of people in high positions recognize that fact. So the US officialdom doesn't want to dwell on that issue. Of course the hikers don't have anything close to the clout that the Saudis do. -- Jim Devine / "In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness." -- George Bernard Shaw _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
