Politics
A leading international attorney, George Malek-Yonan was personally responsible for procuring a seat for Assyrians as a recognized minority in the Iranian Parliament, thus giving Assyrians and Chaldeans a political voice in Iran to date. This was a great accomplishment for a nation that has been without a country since the fall of the Assyrian Empire.
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“The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.”
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revenge, daydream,
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