Re: [Marxism] Iran crackdown

[Rod Holt <rholt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Walter:
As I understood it it some years back, when Cuba was threatened with 
"regime change," Cuba increased democracy, it armed the working class, 
it opened the universities, the people of Cuba were involved in the 
defence effort. Not so? Is there evidence hidden from us poor mortals 
that would indicate Iran is following *that* path?
--rod

Walter Lippmann wrote:

>Just because the United States government has publicly announced
>it is actively funding dissident groupings in a major project to 
>destabilize the Iranian government should have no influence when
>thinking about these events. The Iranians have no reason at all
>to think that Washington would want to overthrow a government in
>that country, would they? They must be completely irrational and 
>we should discount any such notions. Time to crank up the noisy
>campaign against "radical Islam" right about now, isn't it? 
>God isn't great, says Christopher Hitchens.
>
>
>Walter Lippmann
>
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>ROBIN WRIGHT reported:
>The Bush administration's $75 million fund to promote democracy in Iran 
>is the key reason for the recent arrest of several dual U.S.-Iranian 
>citizens in Iran, including D.C. area scholar Haleh Esfandiari. Iranian 
>analysts contend that the U.S. funds have also made civil society 
>movements targets because of government suspicions that they are 
>conspiring to foster a "velvet revolution" against the regime.
>
>
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>WALTER LIPPMANN
>Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
>writer - photographer - activist
>http://www.walterlippmann.com
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