March 26, 2003

Why not Iran?

Iran might be the only muslim popluated country who hasn't protested to the war at all. There has been no major (or even minor) street protest against the war.
There are two reasons: First, nobody has suffered from Saddam's regime more than Iranians. The eight-year war which Iraq started in 1980 costed lives of 600,000 Iranians, who were mostly young volenteers who joined the war to help the weakened former-Royal army because of the revolution. Iraq used chemical weapons on Iranian forces as many as 40 times in the last years of war.
Secondly, people are so tired and fed-up with the current religious regime that they sometimes say they'd like to be liberated by the Western countries.

Posted by hoder at March 26, 2003 3:23 PM

Comments
I'm sorry you had to live through the Iraq/Iran war. And I'm sorry that hardliners have a hold in the Iranian government. I look forward to the day I can go there, look at the ruins of past civilizations and a thriving one of the future.
- By: Petra on March 28, 2003
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Anti-war demonstration is OK if it's for the sake of lives of Iraqi innocent people. But let Iraqis and Americans fight and kill each other! Saddam was strengthened and supported by the Americans during the war with Iran. "What comes around goes around". Weakened and peaceful Iraq is good for Iran. Same goes for America.
- By: Dara on March 26, 2003
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