>The sad reality is that, if
>Iran's power elite succeed in imposing the Chinese Communist Party's
>economic model upon Iran's working people, as many of them yearn to
>do, that will mean Iran moving to the Right, not to the Left.
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So the Left = gas rationing and stagnation while the Right = 10% growth rates for 20 years in a row? Yoshie, you may be the listmember whose views most closely resemble Grover Norquist's!
He sees the religious right as a useful tool, too. And he's very pro-Islam. You should send in your resume.
Seth