OUTSIDE THE UN WITH AHMADINEJAD INSIDE

By ALI GOLSAR

After a few months of stress-induced insomnia, fearing midnight raids on my apartment, friends disappearing, bald spots, and nervous twitches, I’ve made it back from Iran to the US un-murdered, un-tortured and un-raped.
But being back on the West Coast sucks even more. No one is rioting against the fucking Safeway, or breaking bank windows, or setting gas-guzzlers on fire, and there’s definitely no rooftops in any neighbor suitable for yelling “Allah Akbar” (”God is Great”) or “Marg bar Dictator!” (”Death to the Dictator!”). So when I heard that a bunch of unsettled young Iranian-Americans were getting together to protest Ahmadinejad showing his ape face at the UN General Assembly last week, I quickly wiped out half of my savings for a ticket to New York.

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By ALI GOLSAR 2 years ago

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