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Originally posted by gaijindabe
I have read this in more than a few places. A natural counterbalance to the Arab world. Too bad President Ahmadinejad and the mad mullahs don't want to play along. They have a whole other world view and agenda. Maybe in a few years MTV and the internet will do the trick. As for now, the crackpots are in charge.
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I think you guys both make good observations. Iran has had a taste of a 'more Westernized' culture a couple of times in the past 25 years, and there is open defiance to the Mullahs' strict fundie Islam as well as an "underground" westernized youth culture, from what I hear. This parallels what was happening in the old Soviet Union pretty closely. It's hard to overstate the influence of Levis and MTV.