On 8/18/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is CB really a partisan of Stalin or is this a debating tactic? Also,
>surely Iran is characterized a lot more by other things than show trials
>or executions (however repulsive they may be)?
>
> --ravi
Of course Iran has other things besides show trials and executions. We get
maybe fifty posts a week from Yoshie advertising the resistible charms of
the Islamic Republic. I just wanted to throw in a reminder that it is not
all documentaries about sex changes and condom distribution to fight AIDS.
The Independent (London)
September 13, 1999, Monday
IRANIAN STUDENT PROTESTERS FACING THE DEATH PENALTY
BYLINE: Rupert Cornwell
AN IRANIAN revolutionary court has sentenced four people to death for their
part in the rioting two months ago that threatened to bring down the
country's pro-reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
You see, this is one of the reasons -- on top of neoliberal economics,
utter lack of unity, etc. -- reformists lost favor among Iranians, who
had given them eight years for social change. They didn't want to do
what it would really take to change the fundamental absence of civil
and political liberties.
--
Yoshie
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