Posted on 06/19/2002 4:44:18 PM PDT by liberallarry
TEHRAN, Iran — What if a theocracy and a democracy had a baby? What would it look like? It would look like Iran.
What makes Iran so interesting is that it's not a real democracy, but it's not a real Islamic theocracy either. It is, though, just enough of a democracy for many Iranians to know that they want more of it, and just enough of an Islamic theocracy for many Iranians to know they want less of it.
And if you listen to what's going on behind all the noise here, what you find are a lot of thinkers, both democrats and religious conservatives, looking for a way to synthesize these two aspirations.
Notice that nothing like this is coming from the Arabs.
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