Iran was not ready to business in the 70s and used socialism to avoid debts. how did Islam get in there? that is the nature of socialism which is inherently totalitarianism with good public relations. we can say sometimes civilization crumbles and absolute unlimited power becomes a necessity, but we should never deny it is a tragedy and a vice. Cheering on Obama and his propaganda: Is it any different then those Persian Leftists who thought they were fighting the poor business leverage their country had. Let's not make the same mistake as history. RON PAUL is WRONG. Free trade with Iran will not fix things. let's not create another cycle. Capitalism will not come because we want others to come to it. If anything doing more business with those that are hostile is exponentially worse then "Nation Building". Democratic Republic's with free trade are not "globalists". We are deluding ourselves with Corporate Anarchy like the Iranians were deluding themselves about their revolution.
It was in Iran that astronomy grew as a science and mathematics as an art; there chess was invented. Long before the Romans dared to venture out of Rome, Cyrus the Great declared the first charter of human rights in the world. Perhaps it is this rich history that inspires and motivates Iranians to rise up in defiance of a brutal regime.Defying the Islamic republic has been thirty years in the making. It is a response to unimaginable cruelty and violence by a backward-thinking minority and an absurd and undemocratic system of caliphate and supreme leadership (Velayat-e-fagih) that views Iran as a conquered nation and Iranians as its dutiful subjects. Having been treated like second-class citizens in their own country, courageous Iranians have disowned this medieval system of government by emulating their national and epic heroes and taking lessons from their rich and proud history.
"deceitful Islamists, with the help of their leftist compradors, radically altered the draft before its final ratification, injecting religious supremacy over people essentially to what it is today. The leftists were tricked by the promise of standard, classic leftist demands. Those who noticed the changes in the Constitution and dared to object were silenced and labeled as traitors (pro-West and counterrevolutionaries). In such a highly charged atmosphere, a non-republic Islamic Constitution was pushed through, ensuring the supremacy of very select religious few over the Iranian people."
