Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Vladimir Putin
Putin and an entourage arrived in Teheran for a summit of the leaders of the five states bordering the energy-rich but ecologically threatened Caspian Sea. His visit is the first to Iran by a Russian head of state since 1943, when Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in Tehran, to map World War II strategy.
Russia plays a crucial role in this moment as the main interlocutor of the Islamic Republic as to the nuclear issue is concerned and as the major obstacle to the adoption of a military resolution against Teheran which Washington and the neo-cons try to impose if diplomacy fails resolve the issue.
The Tehran Conference (codenamed EUREKA) was the first World War II conference among the Big Three (the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom) in which Stalin was present. It succeeded the Cairo Conference and was followed by the Yalta Conference and Potsdam Conference. The chief discussion was centered on the opening of a second front in Western Europe. At the same time a separate protocol pledged the three countries to recognize Iran’s independence:
“The Three Governments realize that the war has caused special economic difficulties for Iran, and they are agreed that they will continue to make available to the Government of Iran such economic assistance as may be possible, having regard to the heavy demands made upon them by their world-wide military operations, and to the world-wide shortage of transport, raw materials, and supplies for civilian consumption.” (Declaration of the Three Powers Regarding Iran—December 1, 1943)
Prince of Persia(PC9801)
Prince of Persia is a platform game, originally developed by Jordan Mechner in 1989 for the Apple II, that was widely seen as a great leap forward in the quality of animation seen in computer games. Mechner used a process called rotoscoping, in which he studied many hours of film of his younger brother David running and jumping in white clothes, to ensure that all the movements looked just right.
