Sherman123
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Things may have changed, but the last i heard a couple years ago was that the youth of Iran (who make up the majority due to the conflict with Iraq) were not dissatisfied with an islamic state, they just want a moderate form so they can join the western world.
They do indeed dislike the harsh, corrupt system they have now.
But the old guard is actually going to simply die off. Almost an entire generation was killed off fighting Iraq. Theres old men and young men and no one in the middle. When the old bastards die off the time of the ayatollahs will end.
I never said I was fundamentally opposed to Islamist parties in politics, so long as it takes place as part of a constitutional and democratic republic. The youth of Iran desire a true constitutional and democratic republic, and demonstrated that when millions of them poured into the streets. They are not in favor of an IRGC supported Mullah-acracy that reaches into the political, cultural, and economic space with increasing regularity and intensity. A state that arbitrarily arrests and imprisons thousands of its citizens at a time, and one that spirits off the most vocal dissidents to torture dungeons beneath Evin Prison, or lynches them in the countryside by Basij militia. Hussein-Ali Montazeri was the senior Grand Ayatollah in Iran, and tipped to be the next spiritual leader in the 1990's. How did he lost his position? He lost it when he lost faith in the Islamic Republic and sent out 'night letters' decrying the mass purges and executions the state had begun to engage in. Subjected to house arrest he became a totemic symbol for the Islamist opposition and the civil opposition. He died under house arrest. That is the Iran that people want, one that respects democratic liberties AND civil liberties.