Iran. What do you think of? For me it is the image of a smiling is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which make me vaguely ill. For others perhaps it’s the images of youth standing up to authorities and the inevitable casualties of the Iranian Green Movement. Perhaps to some Iran symbolizes the perceived cultural chasm between us and them. They hate their girls; we love ours. They embrace religious ideology to the exclusion of reason; we don’t. Independent thought is met with crackdowns; independent thought flourishes where we live.