[lbo-talk] A letter to Chavez

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Aug 6 08:31:25 PDT 2006


On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> 1989, the year when Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (acting commander in
> chief of the armed forces in 1988-1989) -- the man defeated by Mahmoud
> Ahmadinejad in the runoff last year -- assumed the Presidency of Iran.
> What did these university students want the Iranian people to do last
> year -- vote for the man who was the President in 1989?

So you're advocating lesser-evil electoral politics? But not in the US, right?

You seem to be at odds with most, Iranian leftists on the Ahmadinejad question. Does that make you uncomfortable?

Doug



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