Now how do we transition from a world where Americans think that when we agree to chat with someone we like them to one where we chat to inform and learn? Starting ten years ago would have been wise. Starting now is less stupid than starting ten years from now.

Vote for a Democrat.

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Sorry to bust your bubble, but it is. I’m not sure what the literal translation of Pejman is, but it’s not exactly an unusual name. Yousefzadeh, loosely translated, is “son/descendant of Joseph.”

And if you consider that the person writing the entry may be ESL, I’m not seeing the batshit crazy wingnuttery–or the crappy grammar and punctuation– that usually abounds on these sites.

Interest, ideas, newsletter, subscription…

I am also calling shenanigans, even our Gary aint that dumb…..

You assume Iranians back then had the free right of assembly, etc. They did not.

I understand where he’s going here. He’s saying the DC police *could* have acted like the Savak (google it) and shot and killed protestors, in the eyes of the Iranian “street”.

Still, it’s more than idiotic to equate Pahlavi with Mousavi. The Ruling Council would trot that comparison out in a heartbeat.

Better than me, Ive read it 4 or 5 times and it still make no sense….

Can we assume, just for a moment, that this administration, unlike others I can think of…excuse me a sec…A-BOOOOSH!…might actually be working behind the scenes thru non-diplomatic channels to try to work out a solution that respects the sovereignty of Iran while giving a fair election?

Is it TOO much to ask of the right wing PUNdits to shut the fuck up and let them do the work we hired them for???

At Politico?

And you definitely can’t find any in the comments there, I looked once and it seemed like Wingnut hell. Or heaven, for them I guess.

What horrors for all you pantswetters when it turns out that Mousavi doesn’t have the broad popular support you think he should have because he’s a horrible neoliberal backed by millionaires who don’t really give a shit about women’s rights but want the economy privatised, and Ahmedinajad does because he might be incompetent but he’s a populist. It’s easy to see the issues as simply a contrast between hardliners who want to oppress the masses and liberals who want freedom, but that’s how it looks from Boston, not how it looks from Shiraz. Mousavi is a deeply cynical man, who is willing to ride reformist sentiment. When people say they want “freedom”, you read that as “freedom of speech, freedom for women”, but they are more interested in “freedom to rape the economy”.

GREEN REVOLUTION HBUAHUBAUHBUGHUBHUGBUHBHUBH

The Iranian people are pissed off, but I agree that interpreting that as ‘yay Mousavi’ is gullible as shit and is just going to result in another horrible debacle like Ukraine.

Incidentally, while we’re on the topic of the Shah, the current holder of the title in pretense is actually a pretty decent guy – considers his predecessor wrongheaded, not comfortable with calls for either neoliberal shock therapy or counterrevolution, and spends half of his time demanding that foreign actors fuck right off when it comes to removing or reforming the current regime.

So when the Republicans wax nostalgic for the Shah, just remember that if they got their wish they’d fucking piss themselves.

“During the coup, Roosevelt and Wilber bribed Iranian government officials, reporters, and businessmen.[9] The deposed Iranian leader, Mossadegh, was taken to jail and Iranian General Fazlollah Zahedi named himself prime minister in the new, pro-western government. The British and American spy agencies returned the monarchy to Iran by installing the pro-western Mohammed Reza Pahlevi on the throne where his brutal rule lasted 26 years.”

That was *before* Carter, by the way.

Your hero Nixon recognized Red China, silly.

We have the power to bring down the Iranian dictatorship right now, just like we did in Iraq, but we fail to do so. Says a lot.

I am calling shenanigans. The real Gary couldn’t have constructed a sentence like that.

Faker. But the stupidity is real.

Sounds like fancy schmancy Poutine to me.