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Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran after 14 years in exile on this day in 1979.

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- stephen says:
  
  05:11am | 01/02/10
  
  There’s a new Khomeini in charge now.
  He’s the boss of Mahmoud ‘I-haven’t-got-a-Dad’, and what
  he says, goes.
  Now France very soon takes over the Presidency of UN Security Council, so lets wait and see if this land of frog ponds and spittle has got any guts.
  
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- annie says:
  
  06:43am | 01/02/10
  
  You have to wonder about the folks running the country in one breath they say the aging population will have a significant impact on health care. And in the next breath they relax the health requirements for immigration to even allow people with HIV to enter and become citizens. And its hardly reported in the mass media but that’s another story altogether.
  
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Hummmmm says:

04:11pm | 01/02/10

Brilliant point Annie, yes that article in the Australian went VERY unnoticed. This government says one thing and does something that directly conflicts with their policy .I doubt the care on an elderly person will be more expensive than the care of an imported HIV patient on our health system

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