Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Channel 4 (UK) asks: How do you mark the 30th anniversary of the revolution in Iran?

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I don't mark this 30th anniversary of the 1979 revolution in any particular way except for a deep sigh. Having lived outside Iran for a while, I am relieved not to be bombarded by a constant stream of deafening propaganda on TV, radio, work, school and elsewhere in the public.

The sigh then is one of relief as well as grief. Grief for those who perished in the years leading to the revolution. For those whose idealistic hopes were dashed by the Islamic Republic, including the ones of those who actually supported it back then.

For those who were executed, jailed or forced into exile by the Islamic Republic since its inception. And for those whose lives in Iran today consist mostly of a seemingly futile struggle to lead what is considered a basic, normal life in the free world.

I just hope that the unrealistic world views and the intellectual clutter 30-some years ago that led to all of this now, and the yoke of theocracy, go away soon and my countrymen can one day live freely.
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  3. Lulie TanettMarch 02, 2010 2:40 PM

    Do you think it's reasonable to expect Iran to become free soon?

    http://www.foreignpolicyi.org/node/15375

    Unfortunately, I don't think Obama's going to do anything about it. How conceivable is it that the people will rise up enough to topple the regime?

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