Re: Support Bloomberg and Rafsanjani? (was Re: Rafsanjani to lead key Iran body)
On Sep 15, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
This was the news hook for my interview with Ervand Abrahamian; I’ll post the audio to the web sometime soon….
It looks like the demand is now not so much “oppose the US government and the Iranian regime” as support the rich men of both countries who are advertised as “moderates” by the corporate media, rooting for Bloomberg* and Rafsanjani**.
Support? Maybe you’re trying to make a joke and I’m missing
something. I thought Rafsanjani’s election was a good opportunity to
talk about the structure of the Iranian government - or regime, as
Abrahamian called it - the weird mix of theocracy and democracy
embodied in the structure of having an assembly of (religious)
experts choose a “supreme leader” with ultimate authority over the
elected government. Rafsanjani is not my hero.
Aren’t you observing a posting moratorium for Ramadan?
Doug