BiggerPockets

The revolution generation has to die off. They're getting there, but not old enough yet. It's like us and the "revolutionary" hippies and they're outdated crap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jTmgLgDEo4&feature=related. The younger generation is different. To them, being in a theocracy, Islam is not so much a religion as it is a registration. That, plus with the internet - they do know what they're missing now and discontent is growing.

I have heard, from an author that has traveled in Iran, that the black market satellite TV business is the most lucrative niche in Iran. And that most women under 40 in Iran wear the traditional garb to work, and once they get home, change into shorts and tank-tops and watch western DVDs and listen to western music.

Also, Ahmadinejad is becoming Iran's version of Nicolai Ceausescu, the Romanian Commie that was overthrown by the kids and grandkids of the people who had willingly followed him into the depths of Soviet communism. He probably regretted working to create a population boom in his early years in control, because those babies took him out when they became adults.

It's like us and the "revolutionary" hippies and they're outdated crap
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Tim:
As a proud ex-hippy, I must say "How dare you, Sir..." :wink:
Although, they say that if you remember the sixties, you weren't there...
Lots of those "Hippies" grew up to be very successful capitalists...

By the way, any good properties in Teheran this day. Maybe no it's the time to buy.. :lol:

I joke with one of my buddies, who's a bona fide hippie that owns a coffee shop in town. I'm the conservative who drives a eco-friendly scooter to his shop while he drives his SUV there. I lowered my rents in response to the economy (I bought right so I can) while his markups skyrocketed.

I get along well with the liberals/hippies that own their own businesses or are investors. They're just as capitalistic as the rest of us; they're just selling a different product. As far as the employees and academia....forget it.

Tim

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95657

"I am deeply troubled by the violence that I've been seeing on television," Obama said in Washington. "I can't state definitively one way or another what happened with respect to the election. But what I can say is that there appears to be a sense on the part of people who were so hopeful and so engaged and so committed to democracy who now feel betrayed."

This quote about the Iran situation by Obama, should be listened to by him when the grassroots revolts takes off again.

We can only hope that Iraq will be a stabilizing democracy in Asia at this point. With Obama promising to pull out ASAP the pro-democracy American influence may be comming to an end.

I do hope for the best there and in Iran. But let us not forget that our beginning was also very bloody until that stabilization began to take hold. Then we had our own internal fight (civil war).

Things seem to still be in trumoil, but some pressure being applied seems to be working as the former presidents daughter was just released by the "ruling" party.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a rival of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been released from detention, state television said on Monday.

full story can be found here.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55L0D520090622