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Okla-homey
12/9/2007, 04:59 PM
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Tehranian university students raising hell about repressive Islamo-fascist regime today. This is an encouraging sign.

I must add, there is a certain irony to this if the movement eventually leads to the downfall of the fundamentalists. It was college students in the late 70's (these kids' parents) who toppled the shah and set-up the ayatollahs.
King Crimson
12/9/2007, 05:10 PM
looks like they want Iran to be Vermont.

the Shah was a US puppet. complete opposite situation today.

edit: New Hampshire
Kels
12/9/2007, 05:59 PM
A friend of mine spends time in NW Iran. He told me that Americans are loved over there. Everywhere he goes people can't wait to talk to him and love to help in any way they can.

Tehran has a Baskin-Robbins and a bunch of other Western stores. He also said that Pepsi has a bottling company there. Men love to wear their hair like Americans, so the gov't passed a law that fines you for having gelled, spiked up hair. Gundy could be a national hero.
Curly Bill
12/9/2007, 06:02 PM
Men love to wear their hair like Americans, so the gov't passed a law that fines you for having gelled, spiked up hair. Gundy could be a national hero.

...or beheaded! :eek:
VeeJay
12/9/2007, 06:07 PM
I am guessing Ahmadinejahd will have those homosexuals charged, tried and executed.
Mixer!
12/9/2007, 06:40 PM
Not to be overly cynical, but I've been hearing about dissent in Iran for 10 years or so. It seems to me that the Ayatollahs will allow these "demonstrations" to show that their critics are wrong about Iran being a repressive, closed society; and then drop the hammer on any malcontents when no one's paying attention. They'll keep their power by any means necessary.
crawfish
12/10/2007, 09:42 AM
I am guessing Ahmadinejahd will have those homosexuals charged, tried and executed.

There ARE no homosexuals in Iran!

Anyway, they'll hate us enough when we bomb the snot out of their country. :(
SanJoaquinSooner
12/10/2007, 09:48 AM
Good to see college students are good for something.

http://aycu10.webshots.com/image/37009/2000689636437904721_rs.jpg
VeeJay
12/10/2007, 10:06 AM
There ARE no homosexuals in Iran!

Anyway, they'll hate us enough when we bomb the snot out of their country. :(

Exactly. And there's little or no dissent either. So these people will be declared homsexuals and eliminated.
soonerscuba
12/10/2007, 01:39 PM
Not to be overly cynical, but I've been hearing about dissent in Iran for 10 years or so. It seems to me that the Ayatollahs will allow these "demonstrations" to show that their critics are wrong about Iran being a repressive, closed society; and then drop the hammer on any malcontents when no one's paying attention. They'll keep their power by any means necessary.

Iran's youth movement is the OSU football of political movements. I wish them luck, but I'll believe it when I see it take an actual hold on political outcomes.
OklahomaTuba
12/10/2007, 02:11 PM
But I thought Iran was a peace loving democracy?!??!?!?