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kollang
Being a little bit familiar with the Iranian history, i can safely say that secularism in Iran won't work for a number of reasons.
First, of all Iran doesn't need secularism to establish, "fair" system of governance. It already has a relatively peaceful and harmonious society. The evidence of that, is the jewish population in Iran is still living and thriving.
Secondly, Iran is one of the most oldest cultures alive today and have been a sovereign state all along for a very long time. With such a rich culture, poetry,literature,arts,architecture,cuisine and having a unique identity of its own, Iran is more than capable of self governance. Since Iran is not a culturally bankrupt country and has a long standing history of peaceful non secular self governance, i hardly find the need for the Iranian society to "try" secularism once more.
Thirdly, the Iranian revolt divided the Iranian society along some aspects which are visible from its diaspora. What everyone must admit is that as Kollang pointed out, that Iran has gone from a complete puppet under shah to a sovereign country with its own foreign policy which many of us may or may not agree to. It is developing its technical and knowledge base of its citizens and successfully providing basic state services to its citizens.
Secularism generally is a failed experiment in all Muslim countries because of some fundamental conflicts of ideals between the two.Examples are Tunisia and Egypt. One could argue that Secularism guarantees wealth and prosperity, well in some cases [West] yes but i can also point out that some of the most poorest countries are secular too, ie N.Korea, Majority African states, India [Home to a huge poor population], Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Cuba and the list goes on. I think, Iran is fully capable of running itself, by itself WITHOUT any western ideals.
Regards.