On Jun 21, 2009, at 6:05 PM, ravi wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
>> Iran has some pretty shitty social indicators, but on the other
>> hand, it's not a country where people are eating dirt. Much of the
>> population is educated, sophisticated, and wants to join the world.
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> Join the world?
Have sanctions lifted, stop being seen as a pariah state, get rid of a president who embarrasses them around the world, etc. At least that's what Dabashi says - but, as Richard Seymour tells us, he's silly, despite having come from Iran and spent much of his professional life studying the country.
Doug