Look beyond the Iranian government posturing (redo)


Dissent

Much (but certainly not all) of the Iranian government's nuclear threats are an attempt to distract it's own populace. It's not working well.

"The Iranian government's plan to create a global Islamic state is destroying our people's culture and -values," said Akif Zagros, 28, a Persian literature graduate who serves on Pejak's seven-strong ruling council. "But we want all nations to be democratic, to live together and learn from each other." Pejak, the Party for Freedom and Life in Kurdistan, is fast becoming a threat to Teheran. The group, founded in 1998, claims to have hundreds of thousands of followers among Iran's estimated four million Kurds, and has been denounced as a terrorist organisation by Teheran for carrying out attacks within the borders of the Islamic republic.

That doesn't make the Iranian government less dangerous, but thing are not as hopeless as some would have you think.

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