Tea

Above it all. There's always time for tea.

In Iran, everything starts with a cup of tea or two. Like all beginnings with tea, one cannot help but wonder if the events of the past few days in Iran could be something akin to the Boston Tea Party. The yearning for democracy, freedom and the power to determine one's own future can be suppressed but not eliminated. But in deciding what shape democracy should take, one cannot discard Aristotle's question: Whether 'democratic behaviour' means the behaviour that democracies like or the behaviour that will preserve a democracy?