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That was a very uplifting and intelligent post, xJones.

Let me try and spell it out for you. The council of guardians, a small, secretive conclave of radical shiite mullahs actually runs Iran. I know, Iran has an "elected" presdent by the name of khatami. A president in name only, a hapless figurehead. A president who doesn't control the military, the police, or the court system. The people of Iran also have an elective legislative body called the Majlis, composed of scores of reformers who together with the neutered president, present an appearance of moderation to the outside world. This "moderation" masks the real movers and shakers in Iran, the brutal, oppresive, council of guardians. The council of guardians will be one step closer to being consigned to the "trash heap of history" if the majorty shiite Iraq cobble together a viable Iraqi state. I would also like to point out to you that the Iranian upheaval in 1979 was the first successful religious revolution in the Islamic world. A revolution that not only threatened the US and the West, but the secular dictators and royal families doting the middle east.

As for what country am I from, what, do I speak with some kind of accent?

That was a very uplifting and intelligent reply.

As for what country am I from, what, do I speak with some kind of accent?

Yes, you do. Again, if you don't mind, what country do you come from? I'll go first if it helps, I'm a native born Texan. Now it's your intelligent turn.

the 1979 was never about Islam. The main movers of the revolution were students, social democrats, leftists, and others who wanted democracy, not Islam. The Mullahs hiijacked the revolution and murdered off all the opposition.

Iranians are far closer to Shah's ideology than they were the Ayatollahs. The reason the Shah was hated was because he was a brutual dictator, not because the majority of people disagreed with his westernization, or foreign policy. No one ever mentioned 'Islam', except for the Mullahs.

As we see today in Iran. The Ayatollahs are massively hated, and Westernization embraced by majority of the population.