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L’shanah tovah

[ by Charles Cameron — life is full of habitual regularities without which there could be no sudden surprises ]
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 at 11:35 pm and is filed under America, Charles Cameron, iran, Israel, twitter, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “L’shanah tovah”

  1. Jonathan Says:
    September 5th, 2013 at 9:41 pm

    The Rouhani tweet is being reported as bogus. But two out of three isn’t bad.
     

  2. Charles Cameron Says:
    September 5th, 2013 at 10:37 pm

    Hard to tell — and hard to evaluate in any case.  But here are two updates, one crying hoax, one crying not so:

    UPDATE: Reader “Dale” sent this link saying it looks like a hoax:
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    Not only were the blessings not a diplomatic signal, they weren’t even really blessings from Rouhani himself, according to Iran’s official Fars News Agency.
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    Mohammad Reza Sadeq, an adviser to Rouhani, said the Iranian president doesn’t even have a Twitter account (although he kept referring to it as “tweeter”), let alone that he was behind the eyebrow-raising tweet purportedly from the leader of a country that wishes for Israel’s destruction.
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    UPDATE #2: Joanne McPortland tells me “Christiane Amanpour claims she just interviewed him. No hoax.”

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