Saturday, June 27, 2009
Azmi Bishara on Iran: An alternative reading
Iran does not just have an authoritarian system of government, it has a totalitarian one. It is powerful, highly centralised, with sophisticated administrative and control systems, and it applies an ideology that claims to have answers for everything and that seeks to permeate all aspects of life. Instead of a political party and youth organisations, it relies on mass organisations, such as the Basij, that blend security with ideology and even with the benefit of broad sectors of the populace. It also depends on a broad and well-organised network of mullahs and on a politicised security agency and Revolutionary Guard. However, it differs from other totalitarian systems in two definitive ways.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
"Or will it rely on repression alone, justifying this on the grounds of Western meddling? The last option is a recipe for future and, perhaps, more intense and tragic turmoil."
ReplyDeleteYeah, I knew you would pick that one out vza. The question is - who gave them the opportunity? Or, who gave them the never ending historical memories?
ReplyDeleteIn the strange world in your mind, nobody is ever responsible for anything are they? Everybody is just a puppet on a string dancing to the tune of the imperalists, blah, blah, blah... chained to the past in a neverending cycle.
ReplyDeleteYeah, for you there is no cause and effect. You live in a universe of fantasy. What I said above was not a dodge of responsibility but a statement of fact, those which you have precious little of except your "home spun" never ending bubble bullshit. lol
ReplyDeletevza,
ReplyDeleteI happen to know quite a few people who have lived and visited Iran, and I have never gotten the impression from any of them that the Iranian government is repressive ...
Obviously not everyone, including many Iranians think the same about Iran, and to be a judge of it based on Western double standards and propaganda, without having ever lived or visited there is quite frankly naive...
One day I hope to vist Iran, or even live there, so that I can witness Iran for myself.
I tend talk about and criticize the U.S. the most, because I was born and raised here..I tend to talk about and criticize Saudi because I actually lived there before ....And I tend to talk about and criticize wLebanon because I have been married to a Lebanese man for many years, and because I have visited and lived there before...I tend not to criticize what I have not been witness to, with the exception of Zionist Israel and its repressive dispossession and occupation of the native Palestinians that I see as having a major ongoing negative effect on the entire region for decades now...
But what I have gotten from some Iranians is the impression that there has always been a degree of corruption taking place in the Iranian government which they feel has been undermining the Iranian nation and its people...
ReplyDeleteCorruption is not supposed to be tolerated in Islam because it undermines and effects the people negatively. It also undermines the Islamic Republic's sovereignty in the face of its enemies who feel threatened by the fact that it is the only sovereign nation in the region that has a strategic position and just happens to be sitting on top of a wealth of oil and gas...
And it seems to me that whenever the Iranian leader Sayed Khameini tries to uproot the Iranian nation's internal corruption, those who are the most guilty of corruption in Iran, use there inside as well as outside outside Zionist corrupted connections to try and uproot him....
As long as there is a strong opposition within Iran amongst the people, to the uprooting of the Iranian leader Imam Khameini, who also want to see corruption in the government uprooted, those corrupted leaders within Iran who are simultaneously being supported by the Zionists will never be able to succeed...