Iran, papal terminology, fiction

CW Admin Old September 4, 2009 - 7:51am

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 officials, businessmen, and students in the United States for exchange...

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Topics: 
Fiction
Letters
Foreign Affairs
Muslim-Christian Relations
Pope Benedict XVI
Theology

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