A generational divide typical of Iranian American families
los angeles times
07-Jul-2009 (6 comments)

Several months ago, Pouneh, a 24-year-old Iranian American college student, announced to her father that she would be voting for opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi in the Iranian presidential election. After Mousavi lost, she joined thousands of demonstrators in Westwood calling the results a fraud....Avesta, her 70-year-old father, shakes his head over what he sees as his daughter's youthful naivete. The retired medical researcher, who left Iran before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, felt that voting would be an act of futility and a show of support for the current government, which neither he nor his daughter support...Masoud Kazemzadeh, a professor of Middle East politics at Sam Houston State University in Texas, said Avesta's views are shared by many Revolution-era expatriates. Many initially welcomed the ouster of a repressive monarch, but became disillusioned when the new regime arrested opposition leaders, shut down newspapers, forced women to cover up and prevented critics from running in elections....Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at USC, marveled at the activism of some of his Iranian graduate students. On the eve of the election, the students organized a panel discussion about the vote...."It was unprecedented, the level of enthusiasm and energy that I saw among Iranian graduates," he said. "They went and voted en masse." ...On a recent Tuesday,Pounehsat with her father in the living ro... >>>

rosie is roxy is roshan

But not in our happy i.c. family, thank god

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:54 PM PDT

Ask Masourd. Maybe he can explain it to you.


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rosie is roxy is roshan

And you two charming fish are..

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:54 AM PDT

living in Iran or living in Orange Country while voraciously reading this website filled with expat opinons about Iran 24/7?

Btw the article does not give one single solitary opinion anywhere by the author, the family, or the college professors interviewed about anything except the voting patterns of EXPATS. And they are allowed to vote, you know, so presumably they're allowed to have opinions anyway.

And what makes you so special that you're allowed to give opinions about who's allowed to give their opinions about what?


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rosie is roxy is roshan

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by rosie is roxy is roshan on Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:54 AM PDT

double post.


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good grief...

by Mastaaneh (not verified) on Wed Jul 08, 2009 08:58 AM PDT

It seems like during these few weeks everybody and their uncle have become expert on Iran and Iranians. I guess we've been used to it on this site, but in a larger forum it's just ridiculous to see so many foreigners who have never set foot in Iran or even the exiled ones who visited Iran once or twice in the last 30 years claim to be so in tune with the iranians' political views and start predicting the outcome of an uprising than even Iranian experts are still wondering about.

mordim az dasteh in hameh foozool


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Exiles not entitled to opinions

by hass (not verified) on Wed Jul 08, 2009 08:50 AM PDT

Who really cares what people who have never set foot in Iran except on summer vacations think about Iranian affairs? "Pouneh" and her friends are tourists, that's all. None of these people represent average Iranians.


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hamsade ghadimi

good article rosie

by hamsade ghadimi on Wed Jul 08, 2009 07:25 AM PDT

i wonder how fast the new generation will become cynical. we'll see four years from now.


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