[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

Dennis Claxton ddclaxton at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 16 12:11:39 PDT 2009


At 11:52 AM 6/16/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:


>>Yoshie! Yoshie! Yoshie! ;-)
>
>Your obsession is your own business, but how could she improve on
>Dabashi?

Dabashi says:


>It is important to keep in mind that Ahmadinejad's supporters come
>from the poorest and most disenfranchised segments of Iranian
>society, subject to his and his campaign's populism and demagoguery.
> From this fact one should not conclude that all the impoverished
>segments of Iranian society, suffering from double digit inflation
>and endemic unemployment, are on his side or fooled by his charlatanism.

Wasn't Ahmadinejad Yoshie's Persian Prince?



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