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To: DoctorZIn
The move shows more and more the increasing gap between the Islamic republic and thousands of students who knowing that they won't have any future with such regime have decided to carry a mass action intending to ridiculise more the theocratic institution.

Why don't the students feel they have a future with the regime? Is it because the mullahs are Arab, and the students Persian?

4 posted on 06/17/2003 2:04:13 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer looking for next gig)
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To: SauronOfMordor
The regime controls the economy. Managed economies fail. It is failing in Iran. Their graduates have to leave the country to find work.

Also the regime is repressive and the Iranian people see themselves as an educated cultured society. It chaffs at the rigid laws of the land.

The people also want to have a part in their government and currently they have little input.

Their newspapers have been closed.

The regime is trying to jam all satellite broadcasts into the country and they are getting better at it. I have been getting reports of people who were getting news whose satellite dishes no longer receive signals.

And to answer your question about the mullahs. Most are Iranian but the leadership has

6 posted on 06/17/2003 2:12:10 AM PDT by DoctorZIn
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