Iran’s President Calls for Purge of Professors

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<p>yh ive skied before, what does that have to do with anything…I am curious who do you thin is more dangerous to the world AND to his own nation Bush or the Iranian Pres, Bush or Nasarallah, Bush or Kim Jong Ill. I am just interested in knowing where you people really stand.</p>

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<p>I grew up in the Soviet Union, my extended family lives in Ukraine. So I am speaking from personal experience, absurd as it may sound to young golani here. slogans are simple, life is not.</p>

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<p>Interesting you mention that u grew up in the soviet union. Yet you live in america now. Also i mite add that my parents grew up in the soviet union too and i was born the yr they made it out of the country. Trust me despite what this guy sasys Russians were not happy to be living in captivity. If they were you would not see millions upon millions leaving the country.</p>

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<p>I live in America, my sisters live in Ukraine and plan to keep living there. There are millions of Russians with no plans to leave Russia. There is also difference between Russians and Jews. But even that is not simple. I am part Jewish and the gret majority of my Jewish relatives still live in Ukraine.
I don’t know what “guy” you were talking about, but to describe the life in the USSR as “living in captivity” you have to be a person who never experienced said life. The real picture is much more complex.</p>

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<p>Thats not true. Because people live now in Russia does not mean they hated living under the Svoiet Union. It is really not that difficult people do not like to live in captivity and that was what life was like. Have you ever read Alksandr Sholzhentisyns books on certain part of Soviet life. I believe it was 50 million dead in the course of Soviet History. Also why are Jews to be held at diferent standards from other people. Why should Jews be deserving of freedom, but russians not?</p>

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<p>am curious who do you thin is more dangerous to the world AND to his own nation Bush or the Iranian Pres, Bush or Nasarallah, Bush or Kim Jong Ill. I am just interested in knowing where you people really stand.</p>

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<p>I think it’s a pretty equal equation golani. Sorry, I don’t hate America, I love my country. One thing I love about my country is it isn’t so easy for Mr. Bush to act out his bringing christianity to the world and he can only serve two terms. That is the true advantage America has over most of the world… the ability to voice dissent with vigor either way. This is not something the conservatives allow, it the way it is. A decade ago, conservatives had the opportunity to complain about everything. Now it’s the liberal side. In a few months things will switch around again and the conservatives will be the ones clamoring to be heard.</p>

<p>But I think one thing you need to understand about your comparsions of leaders, it isn’t Bush’s great restraint that prevents his plans, it’s the country’s. God Bless America, land of the free, home of dissent, god bless it.</p>

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<p>golani,
you should ask your parents about a difference between being a Russian in the USSR and being a Jew in the USSR. You should also find a better term to describe life in the Soviet Union than “captivity” . I haven’t read about that life in Solzhenitzyn’s books, I lived that life, as a child, teenager, adult. And this is the only reason why I decided to say something. Not one of my better ideas, I think now. Oh, well.</p>

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Are you really so clear that the strategists behind are foreign policy are trying to bring “Christianity to the world”? </p>

<p>I suggest you take a look at Francis F_ukuyama’s book, “America at the Crossroads.” He was a leading Neo-con. I believe he would take issue with your assertion–and he would know.</p>

<p>Perhaps you protest too much.
Bring Christianity to the world, huh?</p>

<p>I think, perhaps, you are speaking from your own specific prejudice, not the facts. There are plenty of non-Christians behind this policy. I do not think they would subscribe to your view.</p>

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<p>mini is correct when he says that there are many people who choose to live in Iran. Iran is still accepting large numbers of Afghanis and Iraqi immigrants. However, particularily among the educated classes of Iranians, it appears that many Iranians wish to leave Iran.</p>

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<a href=“http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=424[/url]”>http://www.migrationinformation.org/feature/display.cfm?ID=424&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Cheers,</p>

<p>Your post reflects perfectly what I know from my family and friends in Iran. This is the situation of Iran as I understand it. To claim otherwise is to intentionally dissemble and delude. </p>

<p>Mini seems to know something about Iran…I’m not clear on what that is, but he seems to know something that may or may not be germane to Iran as a historical/political fact; I often find that it is more germane to his zippy ideology, than to his subject, his sense of humor than his sense of history.</p>

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<p>I live in the metro area of what I believe is the second largest Iranian population in the world, with a large population of anti-mullah Iranians representing both the first- and second-wave of emigres in the article Cheers referenced. (And there’s a Bahai center just down the street from where we live.) To a man or woman, they detest the current regime. And every one that I’ve talked to is horrified by the notion that a U.S. attack on Iran, which many believe is coming, and say that it will unify the country around the regime. Chalabi promised us welcomes with flowers and cheering crowds in Iraq…we’re getting verse #2 of the same song.</p>

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<p>“mini is correct when he says that there are many people who choose to live in Iran. Iran is still accepting large numbers of Afghanis and Iraqi immigrants. However, particularily among the educated classes of Iranians, it appears that many Iranians wish to leave Iran.”</p>

<p>But I don’t see why one would find that surprising. Under the Shah, many of those who were tortured, or families of those who were tortured, or religious leaders not gunned down in the mass killings in Qom in 1963, and tens of thousands of others left Iraq. Many settled in Iraq. Some in Jordan. Some in Egypt. Some in France. The largest number, I believe, in Germany.</p>

<p>The educated classes (relatively small) benefitted greatly under the Shah. North Tehran was the Paris of the east, and the import/export businesses spawned to feed his taste for crystal bathtubs and the like made lots of folks very wealthy - I even went to college with some of them. You’ll find lots of the children of these folks, many of whom became educators and doctors because there was no more money in import/export any more, in L.A. today.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t want to live in Iran today. But I have friends who have had plenty of opportunity to leave, and like it there. With the major uptick in the economy, brought about the blood-brothers of Iranian and Texas oilmen and fueled by my pension fund and yours buying oil future contracts, there will be an increase of immigration into Iran and a decline in asylum seekers. When the economy goes down again, you’ll find the opposite.</p>