{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Finally, to combine tonight's themes, one of the times a few years back when US-Iran tensions were high, there were a bunch of...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/44608944196/", "html": "<p>Finally, to combine tonight&rsquo;s themes, one of the times a few years back when US-Iran tensions were high, there were a bunch of helicopter exercises over LA, rushing low over the 110 into downtown over and over, I think some other things further west where I couldn&rsquo;t see</p>\n<p>See the thing is</p>\n<p>A) LA is, geographically speaking, a pretty good doppelganger of Tehran</p>\n<p>and</p>\n<p>B) LA is the center of the Persian expat community</p>\n<p>clever.</p>\n<p>From what I&rsquo;m told (I&rsquo;m told) the Iranian middle class is one of the more pro-American, Americanized out there, it would be nice if one of the regimes could have a rupture in continuity and reunification/it would be convenient if we didn&rsquo;t and could play our peasants off each other</p>"}