The stone was the size and shape of a hen's egg.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Elliot Hen-Tov, a scholar of Turkish-Iranian relations, thinks he knows why.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"It never will be." Hen-Tov says Iranian leaders are perplexed - even envious - that a country that was half as rich as Iran was years 30 ago, when the Islamic Revolution took place, is today twice as wealthy as Iran.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26