For those who want to know, Green movement has nothing to do with environment etc. It's a nod to Shah Pahlavi's White movement back in the 60's where he abolished feudalism, nationalized some services, gave women the vote etc. The Shah was an american puppet by all accounts and screwed things up royally, but the movement got approved in a landslide referendum.

I'm just curious if the CIA is supporting this green movement. I wonder what our government's position really is and if we'll step in and help like we did for Afghanistan back in the 80's.

Everyone in Iran is certainly hoping that the CIA/US would leave the movement alone[1]. This is an internal soul searching, and if US deploys its old tactics, it would only serve to reinforce and prove that the current regime's mentality against the west is correct.

In 1953, US overthrew the democratic government of Iran and replaced it with the Shah. Then US supported Saddam to wage a 9 year war with Iran, which led to lose of over a million Iranian lives.

The current paranoid and oppressive regime is a reaction to past foreign policy choices of US, and as an average Iranian we hope that it won't repeat mistakes of the past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3KDYE5KQE

[1] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6964530.ece

Oh hey don't get me wrong - I'm all for non-intervention, that's a given. I'm just worried that if America does get involved whose side will they be on. I'm having a hard time believing that America is just going to continue to sit on their hands on this one when there's so much concern in the outcome. Call me paranoid, but the track record is pretty dim on situations where American interests are involved.

As long as it's the democratic society, instead of the corporate charade we see in the USA.

Who are you to dictate what kind of society they should have?

Perhaps they want a corporate charade. Maybe the corporate charade dictated that they should want a corporate charade. Who are you to question the will of the corporate charade? The corporate charade is how I identify myself as a person. It is my history. It is my heritage. It is through the corporate charade that I find work, education, nourishment. I need know nothing else. Long live the corporate charade. May my labours, the labours of my children and the labours of my children's children serve to satisfy the infinite greed of the corporate charade. May they find solace in the warmth of the corporate charade, and strive to feed its masters as I have done. May the enemies of the corporate charade be persuaded and join the charade lest they lay down on the sand beneath my heal and the heal of all my fellow serfs as we choose, by our own democratic vote, to do the bidding of the corporate charade. May the power and glory of the corporate charade be ever expanding. Long live the corporate charade.


>> ^rougy:
As long as it's the democratic society, instead of the corporate charade we see in the USA.

>> ^notarobot:
Who are you to dictate what kind of society they should have?
Perhaps they want a corporate charade. Maybe the corporate charade dictated that they should want a corporate charade. Who are you to question the will of the corporate charade? The corporate charade is how I identify myself as a person. It is my history. It is my heritage. It is through the corporate charade that I find work, education, nourishment. I need know nothing else. Long live the corporate charade. May my labours, the labours of my children and the labours of my children's children serve to satisfy the infinite greed of the corporate charade. May they find solace in the warmth of the corporate charade, and strive to feed its masters as I have done. May the enemies of the corporate charade be persuaded and join the charade lest they lay down on the sand beneath my heal and the heal of all my fellow serfs as we choose, by our own democratic vote, to do the bidding of the corporate charade. May the power and glory of the corporate charade be ever expanding. Long live the corporate charade.

>> ^rougy:
As long as it's the democratic society, instead of the corporate charade we see in the USA.



I dictate nothing, but I will not wish this fake bullshit American governance on anybody.

The Iranians want a corporate charade? Ha!

Hey! If you identify with the corporate charade, then you better jump on a plane and get out of Dodge, because me and millions of others are sick of your shit.

"It is through the corporate charade that I find work, education, nourishment."

And boots to lick.

Piss off.

Iran for Iranians!

*equality

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