BETTER EXPECTATIONS I had just finished reading Mark Bowden's 2006 book Guests of the Ayatollah when I picked up Commonweal and read William Pfaff's column on Iran, “The Enemy Within” (July 17), which is rife with errors concerning the 1979 hostage crisis. Pfaff writes: “Instead of recognizing the seizure of the embassy as an implicit act of war, and detaining Iranian off (...)
Letters
Iran, papal terminology, fiction
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