Rouhani’s NYC Tweets; Tel Aviv’s Spotty Wi-Fi
Plus a decade of trying to halt Iran’s nuclear program, and more in the news
September 24, 2013
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arriving in New York for the U.N. General Assembly.(Twitter)
• Jeffrey Goldberg “uncovered” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani tweets-to-be from his visit to New York for the United Nations General Assembly. #latkes [Bloomberg]
• Here are Rouhani’s actual, somewhat less exciting tweets so far. [Jerusalem Post]
• Foreign Policy has a thorough, decade-long timeline of international diplomacy efforts and pressure to halt Iran’s nuclear program. [Foreign Policy]
• Meanwhile, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomenei, has authorized Rouhani to make an overture for direct talks on Iran’s nuclear program while he’s in town. [NYT]
• Tel Aviv’s much-lauded free citywide Wi-Fi is a bit spotty. [Haaretz]
• University of West Georgia professor Carrie Pitzulo has a moving response to Marjorie Ingall’s column about her abortion and miscarriage. [Nursing Clio]
Stephanie Butnick is chief strategy officer of Tablet Magazine, co-founder of Tablet Studios, and a host of the Unorthodox podcast.
