Day 2,037: teeter, mullah

Iran is teetering between engagement with America and dashing for a nuclear bomb. What if the zealots and the mullahs get in Mr Trump’s way?

Donald Trump will upend 80 years of American foreign policy

Artwork of the day 
Mullah Rahim and Mullah Karim quarrel on his way to the market
Vasily_Vereshchagin
Original Title: Мулла Рахим и мулла Керим по дороге на базар ссорятся
Date: 1873
Style: Realism, Orientalism
Genre: genre painting
Location: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Word of the day 
teeter: to appear to be about to fall while moving or standing:
mullah: an Islamic religious teacher or leader

Quote of the day
“[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.”

― Clive Barker