The January 6, 2021 insurrection in Washington D.C. reminds me of August 1953— the summer of my youth in Tehran, Iran.  My grandfather held my hand firmly as we walked to the Majlis (the parliament) in early August of that year to hear Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq debate the nationalization of Iranian oil.   Grandfather, a distinguished jurist of More

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