The Iranian president started his European tour in Italy. He is received by the Italian president, the Pope and business, with pomp and style. He is, after all, considered a "moderate" in the land of the veil.
Here, like in other matters related to Iran, reciprocity is relegated to the closet. Secretary Kerry specializes in this distortion of evidence, and he has followers. The denial of the Holocaust or the right of Israel to exist (inter alia) are considered bad table manners talk . Emulating Piketty: Fiat > morals.
Accordingly, Italy is also protecting the prude glance of the Iranians from its ancient splendor, so that the visitors might be protected from "offense". The view of genitals or flesh could stand in the way of a deal. If a European country is willing to apologize for its eminent art and past for the sake of short- term profit, something is basically wrong! The merchants have invaded the temple! Europe is already mortgaging its identity. If it is also willing to bury its history and art, it becomes indeed a Spengler metaphor for terminal decline.
I wish Montesquieu were alive to add another chapter to his Persian Letters.
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