Behind the Protests, Social Upheaval in Iran »
Posted By tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political OpinionThe government crackdown in Iran is continuing, as hundreds of people, including moderates associated with the presidential candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi, have been detained. It was unclear how the millions of Iranians who had filled the streets to protest the election outcome would respond in the coming days, but the outpouring over the death of Neda Agha-Soltan has heightened the sense of social upheaval.
We asked three Iranian-American scholars, including two who are writing from Iran, to give their thoughts on what the uprising has revealed about the schisms in Iranian society.
* Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies
* Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, economics professor
* Babak Rahimi, Islamic studies professor
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Daylight7 months, 2 weeks ago
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It is the wrong governance that brought a black American to power but Iran is different. Now the Iranians know Musavi and his supporters are Zionist agents. Zionist media support prove this fact. -
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Ratskii7 months, 2 weeks ago
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first let me say that, I think daylight is every bit as much a partisan extremist as Endo, Wolfie, Automan, etc.
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There is no question that there are no independent checks on the Iranian election and that the protests are honest Iranian anger at being lied to. If something of this nature occurred in the U.S. (and though I think the 2000 and 2004 elections were less than fair I don't think they attained quite the same level of fraud), I believe that those defending the Iranian clergy would by screaming foul.
No, accepting the propaganda put forth by a narrow bureaucracy in Iran, is completely at odds with the rightful criticism of the nasty things that the U.S. has sometimes engaged in.
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