On Sun, 20 Jan 2008, the NYT quoted an Iranian political analyst saying
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/middleeast/20iran.html
>
> "The government practically permitted the left to operate starting five
> years ago so that they would confront religious liberals," said Saeed
> Leylaz, a political analyst in Tehran. "But that led to the spread of a
> new virus."
Boy is this ironic. Contemporary revolutionary Islamicists are largely the result of being fostered by the West (and by royalist governments) as a counterweight to Marxists. May the Iranians be as successful in their endeavors as the West was!
Michael