My favorite quote from the piece -- "There is no longer good reason to keep secrets about such a critical episode in our recent past. The basic facts are widely known to every school child in Iran. Suppressing the details only distorts the history, and feeds into myth-making on all sides."

Myth-making is the point of history. Forgive me HN for parroting a quote I first saw in a video game, "History is but a fable agreed upon."