Posted on 10/07/2006 5:25:13 PM PDT by FARS
He believes in the seperation of church and state so he would seperate the Mullahs from political rule. Definitely an improvement.
I don't know Farsi, but within 1 minute of listening, I heard "George Bush." Anybody have a link for an English webcast?
Maybe the media will actually report a story from Iran other than "Once Again Ahmadinejad Heroically Defies USA."
Thanks, no doubt it is an improvement.
Apparently not a quote from the King of France to Benjamin Franklin.
He's going to make a difference if he lives because he's from the same school as Sistani. He believes in the seperation of religion and the state.
Sistani believes that clerics must never take part in politics because they will become corrupt and then they are useless to the people.
God protect him, this is exactly what the Iranian people need. A strong, principaled leader with massive amounts of courage.
I hope he has plenty of bodyguards..otherwise his life expentancy is going to be measured in hours.
Possible he is pro-West if his father had a close relationship with the Shah. For years the Shah sided with the US against the threat of Soviet expansion. (That's how Iran ended up with all those F-14s).
Since the clerics took over, there has remained a lot of repressed pro-western sentiment in Iran, especially among college students. They normally keep a low profile.
I wonder what's going on with Mr. Nuclear Bomb right now?
Tehran Police Clash With Supporters Of Outspoken Cleric
There really is no distinction between candidates. There isn't a great deal of "new thought" on the horizon. Living in a dictatorship tends to silence people. Like in Cuba... do you really believe Castro would win 95% of the vote every year, if it wasn't designed that way?
News breaks on the internet now. Fox and CNN are for recipes and knitting circles.
Someone just posted another thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715628/posts
Thanks!
"It means Ayatollah Boroujerdi will be dead by morning!"
Could be, but big changes sometimes result from seemingly small events like this.
Thousands in the streets now.
This link sent to Drudge.
That going be something when Iranians people lay smackdown on Mullahs
Wow --- is hope alive?
What time is it there now?
Where are you hearing this?
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