donderdag 3 juli 2008

Iran 214


Dit schreef de Iraanse dissident Akbar Ganji die vijf jaar gevangen zat in het Iran van de mullah's:
'The View from Tehran
Changing Iran from within

Akbar Ganji

'Most Iranians, I believe, share a broad outlook on American foreign policy: they think that Iran is valued only for its vast energy resources and its role in regional politics and that Iranian culture and economic development and the peace, welfare, and basic rights of Iranian citizens are largely irrelevant to American policymakers. I write this as an Iranian intellectual, not as a politician, and I offer these critical observations about U.S. policies with an eye toward more constructive proposals...
Iranians will never forget the 1953 U.S.-supported coup that toppled the nationalist, moderate, democratic government of Dr. Mohammad Mosaddeq and ushered in a closed, dictatorial political system. Iranian society lost one of its most important historical opportunities for the establishment of a democracy.'

De werkelijkheid is genuanceerder en complexer dan Carolien Roelants van de NRC en alle andere westerse propagandisten doen voorkomen.

Geen opmerkingen:

Peter Flik en Chuck Berry-Promised Land

mijn unieke collega Peter Flik, die de vrijzinnig protestantse radio omroep de VPRO maakte is niet meer. ik koester duizenden herinneringen ...