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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (236895)6/12/2005 8:01:40 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) of 1577112
 
If this is true, why are they not revolting and overthrowing the ayatollahs? They did in 1979 when they were fed up with the Shah.

It's a good question. Revolution is never as easy to start as it seems from the armchairs you and I sit in. But I think there's a little bit of an answer in a Time article I read recently. Read it and tell me if you think some answers are in there:
time.com

When I left Tehran in 2002, after spending two years in the country my parents had left behind in the 1970s for the U.S., life was different. In many ways it was worse. After the U.S. Administration declared Iran part of an "axis of evil," the ruling clerics lashed out at home, enforcing social strictures with such vigor that we wouldn't leave parties without first chewing several pieces of gum to conceal the alcohol on our breath, in case we encountered a checkpoint run by Islamic paramilitaries. When the rhetoric cooled, the system turned its sights back to its angry young people and essentially decided to stanch their discontent by buying them off. While continuing to brutally suppress all political dissent, the mullahs boosted subsidies on gas and household commodities. But most significant, they began loosening control over the lifestyle choices of the 48 million Iranians under the age of 30, who make up more than two-thirds of the population.

Here is another article you should read on their youth:
news4colorado.com
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