Posted on 06/13/2010 3:56:47 PM PDT by nuconvert
Even before last year's post-election tumult, it was palpable to almost anyone who had spent serious time in Iran that revolutionary rot had set in long ago. While every country has its tales of corrupt clergymen, disillusioned government officials, drug-addicted youth, and rampant prostitution, in a theocracy that rules from a moral pedestal these stories have long served to highlight the government's hypocrisy and hollow legitimacy.
Although Iran's amateur cell-phone journalists did a heroic job chronicling scenes of extraordinary courage and harrowing government brutality -- a record that is "more important than all of the history of our cinema," acclaimed filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf graciously put it in a Wall Street Journal interview -- what is impossible to capture on video is the dismay of Iran's traditional classes who continue to believe strongly in Islam, but have lost their faith in the Islamic Republic.
(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...
Just reading the title of the piece I thought they were talking about Washington DC dims.
This article points out the moral obtuseness of people who find nothing wrong with Iran.
The link has a link to an amazing article about Afghanistan in the 1950’s and 1960’s. You might be interested.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/27/once_upon_a_time_in_afghanistan
That makes at least 2 of us... ; )
Sadly enough we have come to that stateside.
It reminds me of another story I read awhile back in slate magazine
http://www.slate.com/id/2173107
“When Bush comes. It is a popular joke in Tehran, akin to saying, “when pigs fly.” Of course, behind every joke lurks a genuine sentiment. Sure, Kamran laughs when he says it. But then he grips the wheel and, for a brief moment, glances up at the sky, as though expecting an American fighter jet to zoom overhead”
Sept 3, 2007, thanks for postin this story had not seen it before.
The world lost a good friend (with power) in George W Bush.
“...Too often we underestimate the sustainability of morally bankrupt regimes that have mastered the art of repression coupled with financial co-optation.”
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That’s the part that got me....
>>>’Even the Regime Hates the Regime’
Nah.... the Regime is in Love with the Regime.
How else would any one explain why the [Islamic Iranian] Regime is kept being in power for 31 years?
We HAD TO invade Afghanistan and Iraq last 10 years. Yet, We tiptoe around Mullahs’ regime in Iran, and allow their lackeys live in our societies in the U.S. and the West.
Why is that?
Government always fails miserably as a god.
“Just reading the title of the piece I thought they were talking about Washington DC dims.”
You were not by yourself! :)
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