http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/03/iranian-cleric-british-embassy-staffers-confessed-will-face-trials/ Original and up-to-date news Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:08:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/03/iranian-cleric-british-embassy-staffers-confessed-will-face-trials/comment-page-1/#comment-2661 matthewgood.org » Archive » The Sham Of Iran Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:33:05 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/?p=4822#comment-2661 [...] Cause and effect. The revolution may have deposed the Shah in 1979, but Iran has still languished in an undemocratic state for 56 years. Imagine how that must make young Iranians feel knowing that there was a time, decades before they were born, that foreign countries robbed them of that possibility, a robbery that led to the rise of what is, for all intents and purposes, a hard line theocracy, one in which public dissent is now being labeled treason. [...] [...] Cause and effect. The revolution may have deposed the Shah in 1979, but Iran has still languished in an undemocratic state for 56 years. Imagine how that must make young Iranians feel knowing that there was a time, decades before they were born, that foreign countries robbed them of that possibility, a robbery that led to the rise of what is, for all intents and purposes, a hard line theocracy, one in which public dissent is now being labeled treason. [...]

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