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	<title>Comments on: Throw the Reactionary Rulers of Iran onto History&#8217;s Rubbish Heap</title>
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	<description>An Economist's Travelogue</description>
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		<title>By: Jurriaan Bendien</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jurriaan Bendien</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michael,

Much as though I support what you&#039;re striving for, and although I agree with a good part of what you are saying here, let&#039;s remember that we are not Iranians. In your case, what you directly have to deal with is the policy of the US government. In my case, what I have to deal with directly is the policy of the Dutch government. That is where we can have an effect. We can be sympathetic to Iranian people who confront electoral fraud and unjust repression, but we have to be aware that the elites of our own countries use this sentiment to further their own policy for the world, which is a policy that leads to unemployment, exploitation and poverty for ordinary workers everywhere. Their riches are our misery. The Iranian people do not benefit from foreign elites meddling in their political affairs. But we can do little that has political effect in Iran. Rich people just try to rearrange the geopolitical landscape to suit themselves. So, before we condemn the whole Iranian polity from afar, without thorough knowledge, let us please look first at what our own society and our own state is doing, the society and the state we live in, and that we know best from personal experience. We help Iran best, if we attack the wrong policies of our own governments towards Iran. Iranians have to fight their own battles, we cannot do that for them. What we can do, is to act on our own people, have an effect on our own people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael,</p>
<p>Much as though I support what you&#8217;re striving for, and although I agree with a good part of what you are saying here, let&#8217;s remember that we are not Iranians. In your case, what you directly have to deal with is the policy of the US government. In my case, what I have to deal with directly is the policy of the Dutch government. That is where we can have an effect. We can be sympathetic to Iranian people who confront electoral fraud and unjust repression, but we have to be aware that the elites of our own countries use this sentiment to further their own policy for the world, which is a policy that leads to unemployment, exploitation and poverty for ordinary workers everywhere. Their riches are our misery. The Iranian people do not benefit from foreign elites meddling in their political affairs. But we can do little that has political effect in Iran. Rich people just try to rearrange the geopolitical landscape to suit themselves. So, before we condemn the whole Iranian polity from afar, without thorough knowledge, let us please look first at what our own society and our own state is doing, the society and the state we live in, and that we know best from personal experience. We help Iran best, if we attack the wrong policies of our own governments towards Iran. Iranians have to fight their own battles, we cannot do that for them. What we can do, is to act on our own people, have an effect on our own people.</p>
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		<title>By: Arkansawyer &#187; Hey, Kids! Try This Trick from Tehran at Home!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Arkansawyer &#187; Hey, Kids! Try This Trick from Tehran at Home!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] you can see from the Michael Yates post I linked to yesterday, many of us on the left are rooting for the people of Iran who went out in the streets to protest [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] you can see from the Michael Yates post I linked to yesterday, many of us on the left are rooting for the people of Iran who went out in the streets to protest [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Four articles of note on Iran &#171; Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist</title>
		<link>http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2009/06/23/190/comment-page-1/#comment-148</link>
		<dc:creator>Four articles of note on Iran &#171; Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Full: http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2009/06/23/190/ [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Toni Yates</title>
		<link>http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2009/06/23/190/comment-page-1/#comment-145</link>
		<dc:creator>Toni Yates</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree - it is  not up to the US to decide what to to next - the Iranians must figure it out.  What would they (the right wingnuts I sometimes listen to on the radio) have us do?  Would they have us send in more soldiers to get killed?  Would they have us send bombs and missiles to kill more innocent women and children like we did in Iraq?  I have to stop listening to that stuff - it makes me crazy!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree &#8211; it is  not up to the US to decide what to to next &#8211; the Iranians must figure it out.  What would they (the right wingnuts I sometimes listen to on the radio) have us do?  Would they have us send in more soldiers to get killed?  Would they have us send bombs and missiles to kill more innocent women and children like we did in Iraq?  I have to stop listening to that stuff &#8211; it makes me crazy!</p>
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