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In "Riding Into Tehran on Wings of Change" [front page, Nov. 9], Steve Coll mentions the Iranian bureaucracy's struggle with English translation, citing a garbled sign on a highway in western Iran that indicates the presence of "Historical Remainds of Bistoun." Other than describing the site as an "ancient bas-relief, a chiseled king whose hand stretches to the divine while his foot grinds the neck of a prostrate rebel," he ignored the historical importance of the site.

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