What they said

'The few Iranians I reached said something chilling: they now fear a failed revolution more than the IRGC killing civilians in the streets. Things have gone too far to back down. If it fails, the consequences are catastrophic—so they risk their lives to ensure it doesn’t.' Yassi, an Iranian-Canadian who has a TV chat show

‘The depiction of [Khomeini] as fanatical, reactionary and the bearer of crude prejudices seems certainly and happily false .... Iran may yet provide us with a desperately‐needed model of humane governance’. Richard Falk in the New York Times in 1979.

'Michel Foucault saw in the future [Iranian] revolution "the most modern form of government" and Khomeini "a saint man". Sartre believed he would lead an "anti colonialist and anti imperialist regime" French newspaper liberation called it a "Shiite socialism". The one French intellectual who somewhat saw through the BS was Simone de Beauvoir who saw that the regime's will to put every woman behind niqabs was incompatible with her feminist ideals.' François Valentin

'There were migrant rape gangs in England. They would run around and prey on young girls. Some people find that objectionable, and of course it should be objectionable, and were upset about that, they complained about it online and were sent to prison.' Elon Musk

His chronicler Michael Woolf Telephone calls and interviews with Donald Trump overrun as he moves from subject to subject. He is suffering from dementia. 'We come to the limitations of journalism, which is the New York Times can't say that. They somehow have to treat everything in their four hours with the President of the United States as basically rational when it is not.'