An American-style cafe in Tehran, shows a comparatively relaxed dress code and mixing of sexes, but the election of an Islamic hardliner as the country's new president suggests greater openness in Iranian society will be slow in coming.
Posted on 07/03/2005 7:20:48 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
Most of the hostage takers are now in jail or out of power cycle!
The Iranians are tired of being treated like children. The women in particular. The people are tired of their Persian heritage being ignored as the powers that be force Arab culture upon them. And above all, they want freedom.
The days of the Islamic Revolution are numbered.
The Administration will sit on that information as long as possible, because publicly admitting it will require that action be taken.
What action can they take? They can keep him from entering the country, but that's about it.
oh, except for the president that is.
But as far as I know, Iran has never apologized, made ammends. Or did I miss something? I mean, I'm glad to know the hostage-takers aren't exactly prospering but why doesn't the regime consider them heroes?
The regime needs an external enemy to scare its own people and rule them!
Maybe not in the National Anthem of Iran, but certainly in the slogans sung and shouted from 1979 to recent times.
It seems whenever a camera came out, there was a demonstration. People shouting Marg Bar Amrika!
Khomenie telling everyone the US was the great Satan.
It is literally only in the last 4 or 5 years that I heard anything different. The internet has opened a lot of eyes.
But the hard liners still shout those slogans.
:)
They put that terrorist into office (nocice, I didn't say elected) and they think we're going to sit back and say, ho-hum?
http://rescueattempt.tripod.com/id28.html
trying to update it, might load slow
The regime stages fake protests!
An American-style cafe in Tehran, shows a comparatively relaxed dress code and mixing of sexes, but the election of an Islamic hardliner as the country's new president suggests greater openness in Iranian society will be slow in coming.
I know, it is a great place to meet girls!
Someone once told me that! :)
lol
Countdown to Crisis
by Kenneth R. Timmerman
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400053684/adailybriefio-20/103-6746282-2722236?creative=327641&camp=14573&link_code=as1
Or dead....thankfully...
Some of them died in war with Iraq and few of them were executed by the regime later in the 1980s!
The plate is pretty full for the US Military.
Hope there will be no military conflict!
Wait till the liberals see the ladies smoking cigarettes. Then, there will be WAR.
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