MORE ENLIGHTENMENT FROM IRAN - AT 10:19 A.M. ET:  From The Times of London:

Iran is to recall a number of its ambassadors overseas who chose the wrong horse and gave their backing to "rioters" during the popular unrest which erupted after June's disputed election, it emerged today.

The semi-official Fars News Agency said that Tehran would be replacing 40 of its ambassadors, a clearout similar in scale to the one which followed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's first election victory in 2005.

"Some of these people officially took positions during the recent riots in Iran in support of rioters," it said in a report. "It is supposed that the new ambassadors will be selected from committed experts loyal to the basis of the (1979 Islamic) revolution."

COMMENT:  Nothing to see here, folks, nothing to see.  Just a manifestation of cultural choice.  Who are we to have opinions about this?  Don't we respect other cultures?

Iran is slipping further and further into darkness.  Meanwhile, its government announced that it will not be bound by the September deadline given by President Obama to make progress on restraining its nuclear program.  Well, you know, we have other things to do. 

September 4, 2009