[lbo-talk] Cole: Iranian public very friendly towards US

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 1/30/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [the first part of this is not what we've been hearing from Cde Yoshie]
>
> <http://juancole.com/>
>
> Well, the Iranian public is very pro-American, and it's one of the
> few publics in the Middle East, I think, that would reform, if it
> could, in a way that was friendly to U.S. interests. If the United
> States goes into a frontal confrontation with Iran, however, it will
> push the Iranian public away. The Iranians are very nationalistic and
> they don't want to be dominated by the U.S.

What does "reform . . . in a way that was friendly to U.S. interests"?

 Radical privatization of oil?  If so, the Iran-first neoliberal
faction of the Iranian power elite would be happy to oblige, but the
Iranian public?
-- 
Yoshie
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