On Sep 3, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> Those Iranians whom American and expatriate Iranian liberals and
> leftists think of as "left-wing" aren't left-wing, nor are those whom
> they think of as "right-wing" necessarily right-wing. Terms like left
> and right are more or less irrelevant to politics in Iran. The
> divide, if anything, is between liberal Westernizers and populist
> anti-imperialists, with Ali Khamenei serving as the arbiter among
> contending factions.
Aside from being an insult to surviving Iranian leftists - including the unionists you've scorned - this overlooks the fact that your "dear imam" Khomeini had thousands of their comrades hanged and jailed.
Doug