Given this imperative, an architectural language of bombast and gigantism was almost inevitable.

Although the origins of Iran s nuclear program are to be found in the enlightened presidency of Mohammad Khatami (1997 2005) it was just before Ahmadinejad s inauguration that Iran ended its self imposed moratorium on uranium enrichment Ahmadinejad s bombast has made matters worse.

After several months of listening to Israeli (and, to some extent, US) war rhetoric, the regime began issuing its own menacing bombast, as a matter of substance and to defend the pride of a regime that views itself as the heir to the glorious imperial tradition of Persia.

I refused to be a commodity, a cheap article traded by the people of religion, politics and the media. I refuse to go back to running after gas canisters, waiting for electricity in the long winter nights, to the screaming and wailing of the political parties, and religious calcification. Gaza is a place of cheap talk and bombast.