In 1979, when the Islamists overtook the popular revolution and established an irreversible Islamic Republic, they made all range of promises – women’s rights, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, open government, freedom, freedom, freedom. They also promised to keep the West, and particularly the United States, out.
Today, the freedoms have vanished without possibility and all that is left is anti-Americanism and the irony that America has inadvertently contributed so much to keeping the Republic intact….
Crisis mode is the Republic’s autopilot and having an enemy which for many years has somehow justified retaliatory Iranian rhetoric in the eyes of millions of people worldwide who suffer US-backed dictatorships and wars has been the icing on the cake.
The decision to declare Ahmadinejad President is based largely on the fact that the Republic does not want to negotiate with America – that it quite likes being denounced by the United States.
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johnpi
