Actually, a number of Iranians I know, who are liberal or leftist, have gone back to Iran, for family visits, research, and so on (including my Farsi teacher Saeed), and one of them, an economist, has settled into it for a long haul, teaching at the University of Tehran.
I intend to say hello to him once I get there.
Those who don't go back have made a positive choice of preferring the West to Iran, which is understandable. The West is richer, freer, etc. for those who come from class backgrounds that most Iranian leftists hail from than Iran or any other country outside the West.
> > She's lived in the West for a long time as well, longer than I have
> > been, for all I know. Nothing in the article below is over the top,
> > though, nor anything else by her I have read. If her work seems very
> > persuasive to you, perhaps you might tone down your rhetoric to her
> > level.
>
> Thank you very much for the rhetorical advice, which I'm going to
> ignore.
I doubt that over-the-top rhetoric helps anyone. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>