Iran's Michelle Obama?
My colleague Bahman Kalbasi of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Persian TV points out that one of the moderate candidates in the presidential elections in Iran - Hossein Mousavi - is campaigning with his wife alongside him.
This is a truly landmark event, since for the last 30 years it has been unusual even to see the face of a presidential aspirant's wife, let alone hear her voice.
She - Zahra Rahnavard - is being called the Michelle Obama of Iran, though I note from the picture that her arms are well covered.
To those who scoff at the Obama approach to the outside world - this is at least a partial answer.
He (and she) might change the nature of the game, unleashing forces that no amount of "axis of evil" rhetoric ever could.
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