LAKE FOREST, CA (CR) — Norm Nelson, President of Compassion Radio, returned recently from an important "assessment trip" to Iran. On the way home, he stopped in Marrakesh, Morocco, where he did an interview and was hosted by staff personnel at Marrakesh Regional Radio, a government-owned station in Morocco's most famous city.
Note: In the Iranian political system, President Ahmadinejad's power is secondary to that exercised by the unelected cleric, Supreme Leader Khamenei and his Council of Guardians.
Norm also conferred privately with several young Iranian scientists and journalists, spent time with Muslim clerics at the Khan Theological College in Shiraz, had a surprisingly friendly meeting with members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, and conducted an interview with a university instructor on the controversial issue of Iran's development of Nuclear Power.
On previous trips to Iran, Norm has done post-earthquake relief work both in the southern city of Bam, and in the northern Mazandaran Province; and participated in Christian/Muslim Interreligious Dialogue held at Tehran's Institute for Political and International Studies.