Shane Mage wrote:
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> I don't grasp this violent rhetoric. The incriminated article said
> nothing at all in support of the criminal regime--on the contrary it
> called for *nonviolent* popular resistance in support of a series of
> democratic demands that nobody should denigrate. Is demanding violent
> revolution
> in Iran (but not in the United States, where their heads are safe no
> matter what they say) supposed to be some sort of litmus test for
> Western radicals?
>
It was perhaps a mistake on the part of Charles Brown to send the original post. In its orgiinal context the post was merely informative rather than a provocation as it seems to have been taken on Pen-L and this list. (I might mention that even in private communications Yoshie has never expressed "hatred" for anyone.) Commentary on the Iranian document itself, unfiltered throguy personal attitudes towards Yoshie, would be of interest.
At a high level of abstraction, not based on any concrete knowledge of events in Iran, there would seem to be three possiblities:
1. Continuation of the present regime
2. Civil War, the outcomes of which are rather uncertain
3. The kind of process (also uncertain but less bloody) outlined in the statement
In any case, I too have never understood why differences on Iran have given rise to such bitterness of personla feeling.
Carrol