Overheard at Table 3: Iranian Writer on the Radio

... and I heard her on the radio, she's written the book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, and she now lives in New York or somewhere, Manhattan, I think, and she said that she had talked to a friend back in Iran who said to her,

"We are watching in wonder and shock, a game played by two madmen.  And whatever the outcome, the Iranian people are the ones to get hurt."