Today is the ninth day that Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan (pictured above), a 31-year-old Iranian woman, has stood in front of a federal jury in Fort Lauderdale wearing brown scrubs and white plastic government-issued flip-flops. In a move that has been described as bold, crazy, or both, the polite, petite detainee has been representing herself in broken English, claiming that she did not plot to import highly-controlled military-grade night-vision goggles to Iran, and that she's innocent of the six ch
Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan is a 31-year-old Iranian woman accused of trying to export night-vision goggles to Iran. This detail probably means she won't ever be a confidant of the Obamas, but that hasn't stopped Gholikhan from offering the First Couple her thoughts.Juice recently uncovered a letter Ms. Gholikhan penned to
President Obama, congratulating him on his win. She asked if he would
be "another colored copy of Mr. Bush or he was a real man of his
words?" After informing Obama that fede