"A new option has been added to the Foreign Ministry's telephone number[when you dial for queries]… to cut diplomatic ties please press 9."
"Have you climbed any embassy walls in the past 5 years? - New question to be added to visa application forms[for those applying from Iran]."
"One good thing that cutting ties with Saudi Arabia taught me is geography. At least now I know where Djibouti is."
"Please leave some embassies for the future generations. They also have the right to seize embassies! There are embassies but there are not that many!"
In the meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry said the implementation of the Iran Deal is only days away. According to Kerry, “The [Iranian] foreign minister made it clear to me they intend to complete their obligations with respect to implementation day as rapidly as possible. We are currently engaged ourselves in making certain that we're prepared to move on that day. And I think it could come -- without being specific -- sooner rather than later.”
Academic Hamid Dabashi summarizes Princess Ashraf's life best, “Her supporters will celebrate her as a champion of women’s rights, a patron of the arts, and a beacon of social modernity, while her detractors will dismiss her as a monstrous power monger who played a key role in reinstalling her brother's dictatorial reign and benefitted lucratively under his tyrannical rule. Two competing narratives will thus chase her memory out of reality and into the realm of fiction. The ruling regime in Iran will continue to demonize her beyond any semblance of reality, while her monarchist biographers will lionize her beyond any semblance of truth.”
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