Since the Iranian people are good at praying to their god, I suppose they are praying for the electoral victory of mister Mir-Hossein Mousavi “as we speak”.
Mister Mousavi is running for president. He is also Iran’s young generations hope for a better future, in which progress has a chance to survive and maybe even thrive. This being in full contrast with the complete regression to the Middle Ages as was so well accomplished by the current president Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad and his conservative predecessors.
Funny that is; because I actually had better expectations of Mahmoud. He was the one student who – in the wake of the 1979 Islamic Revolution against the Persian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi – refused to tag along with his fellow students. They were planning to hijack the USA embassy. They did execute their plan, as is well known. The embassy was “illegally occupied” for more than one and a half years from mid 1979 until January 1981.
Somehow it figures. Lucky Mahmoud had his revolutionary mates out of the way for long enough to plan his future political career. After all, he was the one who became president. And where are the others now? I read in the press that Mahmoud doesn’t shun either machinations OR manipulations OR outright fraud, to stay in power. He fucks around with his own people to remain in the drivers seat. That’s not very smart, for history teaches us that crooks like him always bite the dust in a very nasty way; eventually.
It is a sad story, Iran. It was freed from a despotic Shah, who was supported by the USA, in a revolution which moved Iran from the fire smack-bam into the frying pan. The cure for Pahlavi’s dictatorship – the Revolution of the Ayatollahs – was worse than the illness. The spiritual leaders who took control over the country plunged it into the worst cultural nosedive I can imagine. In no time, Iran became a fundamentalist Muslim country, where entire generations of young people were cut off from the enjoyments of life: sex, drugs and rock & roll. How awful can it get?
If I could, I would pray too. For the victory of reason and progress in Iran. Just for the sake of all those young people who deserve to drink their beer, smoke their Ganja and enjoy their sexuality. But I can’t. There is no god, and praying is a waste of time. One can only HOPE, that the people of Iran will choose the right man and hang the Ayatollahs from the highest trees. (Do they have trees in Iran?) I also hope that this choice will be visible through the apparent malversations, devised to keep Mahmoud and his ugly clique in power. I hope that those who are in power now, will be taught the ultimate lesson: “Do not fuck with the people!”
Surely, anti-sex fundamentalists should be able to understand that?
