Everyone's Confused About What's Happening in Iran
Alternet.com / Assaf Kfoury
24-Jul-2009 (2 comments)

There are many questions that have elicited claims and counter-claims. Who won the June 12 election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Mir-Hossein Moussavi, is only one such question. Among others are the following: how skewed are the percentages: the 85 percent for voter turnout, the officially announced 63 percent for Ahmadinejad, and the 34 percent for Moussavi? Beyond counting percentages, which of the two major candidates has majority support among the rural poor, or the urban middle class, or the students and the young unemployed? In what way is Moussavi a reformist, a socialist or a left Islamist, as he has been varyingly called -- or is he something else entirely? How is it that Moussavis chief backer in the political establishment, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, transmuted from the most corrupt mullah (according to frequent past reports in the west) to a reformist politician? These are a few among many questions that have produced conflicting answers. Reasonable readers should be excused for being confused.

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Farhad Kashani

Shah Gholam,   There

by Farhad Kashani on Sat Jul 25, 2009 03:33 PM PDT

Shah Gholam,

 

There are only 2 confused groups 1- Self loathing brainwashed anti American Leftist nutjobs like yourself who thought IRI will lead the fight against America and Israel to promise land! 2- Islamists in Iran who are confused on how 30 years of oppression and propaganda shattered in couple of days.

 

We have been saying all along what’s going on in Iran. The people in Iran do not want the IRI regime, it’s as simple as that. They despise it, they reject it, they want to see it gone for good. They didn’t want the regime from day 1.  These recent events were the beginning of the end of your beloved Fascist regime. The regime has lost its credibility (if it had any to begin with) and legitimacy (also if it had any to begin with) forever. This is a struggle for the Iranian people for freedom, democracy and peace with itself and the world.

 

So hopefully what I just said helped you get out of your “confusion”.

     


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IranFirst

You Arabs are the Confused ones...

by IranFirst on Sat Jul 25, 2009 04:47 AM PDT

Dear Arab/Palestinian

You, Assaf, IRI,Basij are the confused ones . Coming to an IRANIAN group deciding for us what is good for Iran. Are you upset that the source of your brother terrorists and Islamists money will be taken away soon, after Iranians take ower Iran ?

Milliones of the brave and the best educated  people in Iran, women, old and young have much much more brains than you and your socialist Arab friends and some parts of the "left".

Mr. Chomsky who is on the left, supports Iranains and getting our freedom. He is a decent person, unlike you and this Arab socialist professor of yours. "Assaf Kfoury is Professor of Computer Science at Boston University.
He is an Arab American who grew up in Beirut and Cairo, and returns
frequently to the Middle East."


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