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Iranian Crackdown Goes Global
An anonymous reader writes "Tehran's leadership faces its biggest crisis since it first came to power in 1979, as Iranians at home and abroad attack its legitimacy in the wake of June's allegedly rigged presidential vote. An opposition effort, the 'Green Movement,' is gaining a global following of regular Iranians who say they never previously considered themselves activists. The regime has been cracking down hard at home. And now, a Wall Street Journal investigation shows, it is extending that crackdown to Iranians abroad as well. Part of the effort involves tracking the Facebook, Twitter and YouTube activity of Iranians around the world, and identifying them at opposition protests abroad. People who criticize Iran's regime online or in public demonstrations are facing threats intended to silence them."
They are not going to "reform" their government because the vast majority of Iraqis are Muslims and Islam is Fundamentally anti-democratic.
A single theocracy won't work because of the Shia-Sunni schism (fortunately for those not Muslims) so expect Iraqis to behave as usual.
Only a Hafez Assad or a Saddam Hussein can impose secular government on such people, and the necessary methods exclude freedom. For Muslims, democracy can only be a road to theocracy as demonstrated by Iran. (Turkey is in remission solely due to the waning influence of Ataturk and is not a counterexample.)
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
First point - You know jack fuck about jack fuck. I don't know where ignorant stupid puss-heads like you come from, but I wish simpering morons like you would go back.
The Iranian people for much of the 20th century were probably the most liberal in the region, but because of foreign interference and the brutality of the Shah the people were compelled to revolt. Unfortunately, they seemed little prepared for the vile repugnant character of the monster they put in place of the Shah.
Perhaps if the US and Great Britain had not destroyed the Iranian democratic government, we might not see a country run by religious nutjobs.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
You are the biggest douche I've ever seen on /. and that's saying something. Congrats. I hope you get anally raped, hard.
Are agnostics skeptical of unicorns too?