I can’t restrain myself from being enthusiastic about these socratic-ciceronian dialogues (in reality: polylogues) to be usually found here, which enable the reader to get a more realistic view of complex reality and a more clarified insight into a highly complex situation and a highly complex country.

Just grand!

Fills one with pure joy!

Chapeau to impressive Pedestrian and the not less impressive contributors/commentators/participants of these discussions !

Apologies and All the Best

German

I don’t think the greens are represented rightly either. They’re not all for Western liberalism. Many are in fact the old guard of the revolution. Some are truly discontent with how it’s gone. Some maybe are rats jumping ship … who knows? The situation is too complex for anyone to label one side and be done with it (of course, the pro-government forces are guilty of the exact same thing.) I appreciate your comments whenever I see them.

I really think the most positive thing to come out of the aftermath of this election was the discourse that began in the power hierarchy itself. Things began to fall apart, or at least no longer looked as concrete. This may mean many things in the long run, but we just don’t know what yet.

Ped, I make the same comments on blogs and articles, and it makes me very unpopular to some. A lot of folks just want to conveniently think that everyone in Iran is a green, and that everyone is being held back from Western liberalism (their own cultural rendering of freedom). I don’t buy it.

There’s a division, and one side (the greens) is currently not adequately represented in Iran’s political makeup. And out of this group, some are not represented entirely.

Last night, I was googling Iran’s “past population” to respond to one of Naj’s posts, and I actually came across an uploaded eBook rendering of my high school yearbook from Tehran. I’d never seen it before; my family and I returned to the US at the end of the fall/winter semester. Needless to say, I was absolutely stunned. My schooldays in Tehran were very different than yours, Ped. Out of everyone in the school yearbook, I’m sure its safe to say that everybody, except for the janitors, left the country in 1979 (and I don’t mean that in a negative way, it’s just fact). Kids, entire families, teachers, all the staff, gone. The school, which had been around since 1930, apparently closed its doors for good in 1979. Really sad, for it was a pretty decent school, with many nationalities represented, including about half Iranian. A real loss.