I think that for most Iranians, "Western" probably means "not part of the Islamic world," not "North America and Western Europe." It includes Russia and Ukraine, and probably India and China.
--- On Tue, 6/16/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
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> I don't call it (medicine, education) Western or
> imperialist because its neither. Assistance... well that's
> another thing altogether and may indeed well be a Western
> innovation.
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> --ravi
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