[Marxism] Iranian expats

[Andrew Pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxxx>]

I mentioned yesterday the article in the current New Yorker on Iranian expats 
courting and being courted by Washington. Lots of good info there on these 
slime (i.e. both the expats and their masters). I can send a pdf of the article 
to anyone who wants it.

  Today's mrzine has a good column on the subject:
Open Letter to Iran's Nobel Laureate
by Rostam Pourzal
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/pourzal270206.html

  P.S. re the 1978 Kraft column I described yesterday: Reading further, I came 
on this gem:
  "Before dinner, I visited Wanda Hake, an American psychologist employed by 
the United States companies working in the Isfahan region. Mrs. Hake reported 
that most of the Americans in the area lived in a compound, largely removed 
from contact with the Iranians. They had the problems usually found in such 
communities. There was great boredom?especially among the children. Alcoholism 
was common among the women, and many of the children had drug problems. There 
was a good deal of contempt for the Iranians. 'Because of their turbans, many 
Americans call them rag heads,' Mrs. Hake said. 'That?s the nicest name they 
call them.'?
  http://www.newyorker.com/archive/content/articles/060306fr_archive01
  The article also has some good descriptions of US and others' economic 
overhaul of the country which helped lead to the Shah's fall.

                
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