We are anti-foriegn-millitary-intervention, not anti-western at all

One of the common mistakes about Iranian people is that they are anti-western. This is totally wrong. Iranians are maybe the closest people in the region to western values such as rationality, tolerance and individuality. This is exactly what I tried to show in my BlogTalk paper 2 months ago: Iranian weblogs are showing the qualities of the post-Islamic-revolution generation.

One should not confuse anti-western ideas in Arab world—which of course has theoretical roots—with anti-neoconservativism in Iran which absolutely has pragmatic reasons, not theoretical. If the same Bush administration didn't want to —or threat to—change Iran using military power, you would see how people still like them. Educated Iranians are very very worried that something the same as U.S-backed coup in 1953, which toppled popular democratically chosen government of Mohammad Mosaddegh and brought the corrupt and inexperienced king back, would happen again and destroy whatever they had achieved for the last 50 years of institutionalizing democracy.

Meanwhile, this is not a matter of blind objection. We think military intervention will undoubtedly take us to the point zero in our long process to self-achieved, independent democracy. This notion is based on our own knowledge about ourselves and we are sure that if other people who defend the idea of military intervention, had the same knowledge, would think the same.