William Flew journ

The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.

From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. "Go on up, you baldhead!" they said. "Go on up, you baldhead!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

William Flew journ

 was an Iranian journalist and political activist who championed freedom of expression in his native country and was imprisoned and tortured for his beliefs. He was the first Iranian journalist to work in the United States and was widely regarded as one of the fathers of the modern media in Iran.

In the mid-1990s a number of prominent Iranian intellectuals and artists were murdered in what were widely believed to be government-sponsored killings; Pourzand’s name, along with that of his wife Mehrangiz Kar, a human rights lawyer, appeared regularly on lists of those who would be next, published by an unofficial security agency associated with the regime. Pourzand, in particular, became a target after broadcasting live for a Los Angeles radio station on the funeral of his friends Daryoush and Parvaneh Forouhar, a husband and wife who were murdered in their home in 1998. Daryoush was a politician who founded an opposition party to the Shah, and, after the revolution, was openly critical of the Islamic fundamentalist state. His wife supported him and was an outspoken activist, condemning the state particularly over its human rights abuses. Pourzand and his family, including his daughters Azadeh, then 13 and Lily, 22, were told that the government could no longer protect them and that it would be best to go into hiding.