Posted on 09/15/2007 2:17:33 AM PDT by BlackVeil
TEHRAN, Iran: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has agreed to allow an American scholar to be buried in the historic Iranian city of Isfahan when he dies, the state broadcasting company said Thursday. Richard Nelson Frye, an 87-year-old professor emeritus of Iranian and Central Asian studies at Harvard University, made his request in a letter addressed directly to Ahmadinejad, the broadcasting company reported on its Web site. "I ask the Iranian president to allow my burial in the beautiful city of Isfahan to prove the unbreakable link between the honorable Iranian and American nations," Frye was quoted as saying in his letter. Frye said he has not yet received formal notification from Iranian authorities, but expects to get that when he visits the Iranian mission to the United Nations on Monday. Frye first visited Central Asia during World War II when he worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, and his desire to be buried in Iran dates to the time of the Shah. "I've been connected to this part of the world for 65 years or more, when I was stationed in Afghanistan, Istanbul and Iran," he said from his home in the central Massachusetts town of Brimfield. His affection for Iran and it's people grew during his scholarly pursuits ...
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Frye is a very good and bright man. But he shouldn’t have given Ahmadinejad this oppurtunity for an PR stunt. He might have put in his last will to be transferred to Isfahan after Iran is free again.
When I read that, I thought he was a chum of Ahmadinejad - writing to him to ask for a grave.
This guy has never heard of John Belushi’s unbreakable link between the natural world and the American people?
Unbreakable link, lol, gimme a break! Yeah, it’s about as unbreakable as the link to Tokelau and Puntland.
To be a professor of Asian studies, especially at Harvard, you have to be a little bit “off”.
As a young man he fell in love with an exotic and ancient country. It happens. He will be buried in the Persia of his dreams, not the Iran of Ahmadinejad.
“As a young man he fell in love with an exotic and ancient country. It happens. He will be buried in the Persia of his dreams, not the Iran of Ahmadinejad.”
Well put........and I guess thats all that matters in his mind.
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