Kamangir (Archer)

“At Home, Iranian Leader Admired”

Kamangir | June 30, 2006 | Category Iran

I can think of three theories about Ahmadinejad, Iranians and their relationship together.

1- Iranians are a nation of innocent people kept captive by a small group of extremists whom support suicide bombers in every corner of the world. This group of devil creatures have recently felt in love with nuclear technology and are doing all their best to produce atomic warfare and then probablywould threaten the whole world. The best way to get rid of this administration, to make both Iranian free and prosperous and meet the international communities concerns, is to invade Iran and to get engaged in a “liberation” war, like the Iraqi version of it. This way, the Iranians will have the chance to produce a democratic government of themselves. Some of the followers of this theory also include Islam in the black list and ask for its total elimination from the Iranian atmosphere. For them, the list of enemies is only a bit longer. The common ground here is the two-layer society doctrine.

2- Iranians are a group of extremist terrorists who have no care for the rest of the world. They obstruct everybody’s rights and do not tolerate minority groups. Ahmadinejad is only the one whom is presented to the world. The rest of the nation is as ugly as he is. The solution is to bomb Iran or to build walls around it and to break any connection with it.

3- Iranians are at the end of the day people. They have very trivial needs such as a working economy and security. As a result of the history of the region and everything else Iranians belong to the branch of Islam which sometimes acts not very acceptably. Iran has almost always been ruled by dictators and monarchies. Hence, no actual political ground exists. So, when a fairly unknown politician, for whom anonymity is a benefit, comes in and “shows” that he is there for the people they accept him and he becomes the president. Having an odd version of democracy, in which still many parts of the Iranian administration is not elected, things go unimaginably bad. In this bizarre situation, and while actual media is a none heard story in Iran, politics very frequently resembles actions which are not any more accepted in the world. In this perspective the Iranian administration is like an infecting cancer; it is a part of the patient’s body and it suffers him as well as all around. However, any sever action is more likely to make the whole body weaker and to increase its vulnerability to the disease. Clearly, I am in favor of the third theory. Read this wisely written article in Blatimore Sun by Meir Javedanfar (see) and you can find more clues. It is among the very few articles written about the Iranian situation that I think actually give a true picture. This is how the article begins,

In fact, the West has it completely wrong. Unlike reports in the Western media, the average Iranian is not the well-dressed, lipstick-wearing woman of northern Tehran who speaks with Western reporters about Channel, Gucci and Jennifer Lopez. The average Iranian is from the lower income brackets and lives outside Tehran.

Thanks to Lisa (see) for the link.