[curr ev] Iran Update
(Thank you NYT and BBC)
1) Montazeri has died.
2) In Qom.
3) And the seventh day after his death, the traditional day for a funeral correction: the second of a series of three mandatory traditional Shi'ite post-burial mourning rites falls on Ashura. (12/27 this year)
I... I just... Whoa. Whoa.
....I see no way in which this isn't like dropping a match in a gallon of gasoline... in a fireworks factory.
1) Montazeri has died.
2) In Qom.
3) And the seventh day after his death, the traditional day for a funeral correction: the second of a series of three mandatory traditional Shi'ite post-burial mourning rites falls on Ashura. (12/27 this year)
I... I just... Whoa. Whoa.
....I see no way in which this isn't like dropping a match in a gallon of gasoline... in a fireworks factory.