"... the government will pay salaries to housewives who stay at home and raise children." Please this one statement alone is proof that the government in Iran is working. Sometimes a demon needs a very strong human personality to make it listen. A demon is not new to earth, it has been around since the beginning of time: insatiable greed. Not one human being is without this awful truth of temptation in 'modern times,' by and through technology and other forms of corruption to the natural act/s of life. Iran is the pendulum to the opposite of the US, it has to be this due to the imbalance of the US being the puppet nation state for the so-called "richest transnational corporation globalists." The other victory was the meeting where the US was told NO, can't observe. It is real, the final transparency of a brand of poisoning to all life on earth. The families who have a symbol on the US$ and it is 13, have finally come to realize that the west is not god of planet earth. This is good news for humanity.

"... The Times' executive editor, Bill Keller an old hand at foreign correspondence (he won a Pulitzer for somewhat blandish reporting from South Africa, if I'm remembering correctly) even sent himself to Tehran for a bit of trench writing (or to escape the fallout of his embarrassing performance in a Daily Show bit)." continue here, since this is (in my humble opinion) one of the most truthful accounts of how the "news" can be as RT states - "another story altogether" - "Dashing Fabricated Hopes: The Meaning of Ahmadinejad's Victory" http://middleeast.about.com/b/2009/06/13/dashing-fabricated-hopes-the-meaning-of-ahmadinejads-victory.htm By Pierre Tristam