Persia the Great

Madame Fortuna is not herself

Maybe she’s just being cautious.

Maybe it’s an admission that the news is coming so fast, almost hourly, that she can’t keep up.

Prognosticators need peace.

Inspiration does not like chaos.

Mmm.

I see Iran surrendering.

Yes, yes, it’s problematic.

Everyone who could have surrendered has fled or is dead.

And there comes Prince Reza, the last Shah’s eldest son.

Forty-six years have passed since he and his family were expelled from Iran.

His father died. Two of his siblings died.

Yet the remaining family, he, his mother and sister stayed united, living safely in the West.

And there he was on the Internet, addressing the Iranian people in Farsi.

I, (I mean Madame Fortuna) listened to every (unfamiliar) word.

He spoke in, in what sounded to her, to be sincere, direct tones.

It was probably a day he thought would never come or a speech he would never give.

The Persian people have long history of accomplishments in art, commerce and government administration.

I, I mean Madame Fortuna will always remember the visiting the “Shah Abbas: The Remaking of Iran” exhibit at the British Museum.

The year was 2009.

The treasures were exquisite.

My (her) thought was “The poor Iranian people. They are denied their heritage.”

Jews have never forgotten that King Cyrus released their ancestors from Babylonian exile and Darius the Great consented to their rebuilding the second temple in Jerusalem.

Israel, is attempting, in part, to repay the debt by bringing the terrorist regime which has imprisoned them for decades to an end.

The heroic Persian people will do the rest.

Speaking for Madame Fortuna and myself, we have but one request of the new country (in addition to its creation of a democracy that will unite with others to bring peace and prosperity to the region).

Rename your nation “Persia” and reclaim your heritage.