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To: henkster
"... I doubt it will be a “pro-western” government. I’m not sure what it will be... What they may wind up with may be just as virulently anti-American as the current regime."

I think virulently anti-American as well, but it's probably irrelevant since these massive street protests will die out and be as quickly forgotten as the short discussion of whether Nancy Pelosi will lose the speaker's seat over the CIA waterboarding debacle.

I've watched two movies recently about Iran -- 'The Queen And I', a documentary of Queen Farah living in exile filmed by a pro-Communist expat living in Sweden, and another German film 'Letters To The President' about the cult of personality around Ahmadinejad.

The movies show that Iranians of all types are completely screwed up ideologically. Everyone's an extremist, even the 'moderates'. They've got no sense of proportion because they've never been tranquil, secure, had liberty, or lived without fear of the monarchy, mullahs, communists, or whomever is in charge at the present. Everyone is a political nutburger of some stripe.

Even if Ahmadinejad goes, and I contend that he won't, whoever replaces him will likewise be some virulently anti-Western/anti-USA incompetent screwball.

29 posted on 06/15/2009 9:39:51 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: The KG9 Kid

I know an Iranian gentlemen who has lived here in the U.S. for years. Back in the mid 90’s we saw him right after he had been to visit his parents in Iran for several weeks.
Even then, he told us there was extreme unrest among the younger generation. He said they wanted change and wanted better relations with the U.S. They were also heavily infuenced by western ideas, culture, fashion, etc.


69 posted on 06/15/2009 1:42:11 PM PDT by a real Sheila (We will have a "Quadrillion" dollar debt when Obama's time is up!)
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