Is anybody else enjoying watching what is happening in Iran?

[Cow Poke]

Back in the news.
Protests still ongoing in spite of threats of death.

[Philosophickle]

Back in the news.
Protests still ongoing in spite of threats of death.

CP, I just read a pretty interesting book about Iran that you may be interested in picking up:

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lolita...7246945&sr=8-1

[Cow Poke]

CP, I just read a pretty interesting book about Iran that you may be interested in picking up:

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Lolita...7246945&sr=8-1

Sure... would you mind giving me a couple quick highlights? for some reason, this is really of interest to me, and I know that the impression you get of the actual situation can be SO filtered.

[Philosophickle]

Sure... would you mind giving me a couple quick highlights? for some reason, this is really of interest to me, and I know that the impression you get of the actual situation can be SO filtered.

Sure. It's the story of an Iranian woman who lived through the Islamic Revolution in Iran. She taught literature courses at the University of Tehran, but after the Revolution they made her adopt the head scarf and told her that Western books were banned. Blah blah blah, she quits, teaches formers students at her house, but the best part of the book is the description of the youth's revolt against the totalitarianism of the Muslim regime. This was written well before the current events in the country, so she was a little prescient when she describes the clash between the Revolution generation and those born in Iran after the Revolution.

[Cow Poke]

Sure. It's the story of an Iranian woman who lived through the Islamic Revolution in Iran. She taught literature courses at the University of Tehran, but after the Revolution they made her adopt the head scarf and told her that Western books were banned. Blah blah blah, she quits, teaches formers students at her house, but the best part of the book is the description of the youth's revolt against the totalitarianism of the Muslim regime. This was written well before the current events in the country, so she was a little prescient when she describes the clash between the Revolution generation and those born in Iran after the Revolution.

OK, ya sold me. Sounds like something worthwhile reading. Great book report - get yourself some bacon.

[Augustine2004]

OK, ya sold me. Sounds like something worthwhile reading. Great book report - get yourself some bacon.

I saw a movie like that, maybe based on the book.

[Moksha]

I'm not enjoying the violence but I'm glad to see that those fighting for democratic reforms are begining to be heard.
I saw an interesting TV news report the other day about how those inside Iran fighting for reforms are making use of mobile phones and social networking sites to organise their protests and to capture images of what is occuring and get them out to the rest of the world.

Good luck to them. I don't anticipate an overthrow in the short term but hopefully continued pressure witl lead to a change.

[Augustine2004]

I believe Jeff Huber is reliable, but his analysis of the coverage of the Iran imbroglio by New York Times and Los Angeles Times is linked more FYI than for debate http://original.antiwar.com/huber/20...-persian-ploy/

[Cow Poke]

I believe Jeff Huber is reliable, but his analysis of the coverage of the Iran imbroglio by New York Times and Los Angeles Times is linked more FYI than for debate http://original.antiwar.com/huber/20...-persian-ploy/

Good article. Thanks.

[Cow Poke]

It's not going away...

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1