You are kidding right? Everything was so lovely till 88? It was an engineered elections if not selection in 88. People were right to complain and were fed up. You will see another one if Khamaneie gang increase the pressure and close the next election, be sure about that.
Khamneie has issued new initiative of "Nofooz". Another business plan and line of conduct for the conservative (so called) traitors!
By the way I am listening to his babbling this raefipour (minute 18)
Wow he is so paranoid ! He is a new Dr. Abbasi (same style same illness). Against teaching English
Man if you have something worth listening you wont be afraid of other voices
One has always to know what paranoid enemies say and listen to them carefully!
Some answer to this paranoid rafeiepour with minute coming soon.
There has to be a cure for Daneshmand syndrome now spreading!
I listen to a lot of Raefipour's speeches at his site masaf.ir. I don't necessarily agree to everything he says, but he is the closest speaker today we have to someone like Shariati, in my opinion. Someone who isn't obsessed by the rituals and traditions of religion and nor someone who is obsessed by the norms of the west.
A lot of criticisms against Iran is unwarranted, and only occurs due to the trying to objectively analyze a political situation in a world dominated by a certain norm.
Norms are generally outlined by the superpowers of the time and it is so easy to be entrapped by it. What they do seems like the only way to do something, and to an intellectual, to deny that would seem backwards. The folly of such thinking can only be revisited decades later, when the norm does not exist anymore.
Let me give you an example. I have argued with Iranians and non-Iranians multiple times in the past regarding hijab in Iran. First, let me first start by saying that I'm not religious, but I want to try to prove why the arguments made against it are faulty.
The arguments are always that the state does not have the right to control the attire of its citizen. This argument is made in different variations, but the concept is the same. This is something I am sure you are familiar with, maybe even something you believe in yourself.
However, the counterargument doesn't need to be to defend the advantageous of hijab or whatever. That's a wrong direction to argue. The first aspect of the argument we should focus on is this: Is a country like Iran doing something fundamentally different than any other society or is it only a difference in application?
My argument is the second. In almost any society today, the government has some system in place for controlling their citizen's attire. In how many countries today can a person walk around naked?
Oh, I'm already hearing the comebacks to this in my head. "But that's different!!!" No, the fundamentals of not allowing a woman to be naked in the streets (or say, a school teacher) is exactly the same as hijab, which is Attire Control. The only reason one looks at one in a shocked manner and the other as routine, is mainly because the current Norm dictates that controlling nakedness is fine, but hijab is not. That is, certain parts of the body is perfectly acceptable for the government to put laws for (such as covering the vagina), but others they should not (such as covering the hair). If for whatever reason, the roles were reversed, our nation was the only one in the world to not control hijab, while USA and the west did, then they would have considered us as deviant and a perverted nation, and a lot of Iranian in the west would have agreed.
Sorry, for making this long, but I wrote this with the hope that you please try to free yourself from the current established Norms. Question everything, don't take anything as a given, and do not be entrapped by the times you live in.
