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Re-shuffling the deck won't improve your luck!

The idiot Minister of Information finally comes out to say that this whole thing is about "security" reasons, not a potential earthquake, nor the out of control population of Tehran, or its environment, issues which have consistently and systematically been ignored over the past 30 years and particularly during the Ahmadinejad cabinet.

Of course they would want to move the universities out of Tehran, because they don't know what to do with the thousands of young people who positively hate these guys' guts and would come out to protest against them whenever the chance is introduced.

They can go ahead and re-shuffle the deck.  I doubt they can change their luck any more.  On a more pragmatic note,

a) Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's cabinet is incapable of planning anything and doing it right.  Someone should remind them that they dismissed and dismantled the entire Budget and Planning arm of the Ministry of Economics a few years ago!  IRI has been running on the limited wisdom of the morons who comprise Mahmoud's Cabinet for the past five years.  They won't be able to move ONE person out of Tehran with Iran's current management team!

b) Until actual jobs are created outside Tehran and other big cities, and along with that the proper infrastructure is set up to support schools, hospitals, and recreation for those employed people, nobody will go anywhere.  University students will be the last to go, if this is what the gentlemen have in mind.  They should first get started with the proper urban planning of whichever city they plan to take the Capital to, and implement those plans so that toilettes can flush and computers can run.  None of the two options proposed in this report, Shahroud and Semnan, are at the stage where they can house the government's administrative offices any time soon.

c) I wonder whether Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his cabinet have ever played SimCity.  The game may be able to teach them a few basic things about what it takes to build cities and populate them.  It appears they could use every ounce of help they could get.