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Tehran a paradox - 10/5/2007 2:18:30 AM   
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Status: offline 		TEHRAN, Iran - The shops are full of Western pop music and movies — the latest Harry Potter film, even "The Simpsons." Young women stroll the streets in skinny jeans and short coats, their heads barely covered, arm-in-arm with boys in muscle shirts and spiky hair.

This is affluent north Tehran, where clerics are rare, lifestyles are relatively liberal and Iran's growing isolation from the world is a source of deep anxiety.

Not far to the south, though, in a dilapidated bureaucratic building near the city's government center, and farther to the south in Tehran's sprawling poorer neighborhoods, things are different.

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RE: Tehran a paradox - 10/5/2007 5:39:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		I visited Tehran as a child, I can say I experienced some of the same paradoxes even then.  but you can say the same thing about any country these days...it's just the type of paradox and the degree.

the word of the day is:  paradox!

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RE: Tehran a paradox - 10/5/2007 9:53:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		This is one of the reasons that I feel military action against Iran needs to be thought about over and over, before a single things is done. The moderates of Iran are groing in number every day. I just hope the grow in number and power before the fanatics put Iran into as situation of no return. I speak with many people every day that always seem to have an answer, and then I ask them "So do you think simple answers will solve extremely complex problems?" I am a problem solver my profession, and I would not want to be President or any of the staff. I already have a difficult time getting my mind to stop long enough to sleep. I guess this is why many Presidents and admin appear to age faster when in those positions.

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RE: Tehran a paradox - 10/5/2007 9:55:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		...purely out of interest, is the gap between Iran's rich and poor as wide as it is in the USA?

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RE: Tehran a paradox - 10/5/2007 10:01:55 AM   
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Status: offline 		The point of no return, like Iraq ? If I were Saddam I would mass every fucking nuke I could get, instead he left his country defenseless. Iran is not going to make the same mistake.

I think it is funny, but not in a good way, that Americans can't seem to see that our actions PROVE that these countries need adequate defenses AGAINST US !.

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RE: Tehran a paradox - 10/5/2007 3:14:53 PM   
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I visited Tehran as a child, I can say I experienced some of the same paradoxes even then.  but you can say the same thing about any country these days...it's just the type of paradox and the degree.

the word of the day is:  paradox!


Yesterday's word was "farfanoogin"..... where were you then?

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RE: Tehran a paradox - 10/5/2007 3:16:12 PM   
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This is one of the reasons that I feel military action against Iran needs to be thought about over and over, before a single things is done. The moderates of Iran are groing in number every day. I just hope the grow in number and power before the fanatics put Iran into as situation of no return. I speak with many people every day that always seem to have an answer, and then I ask them "So do you think simple answers will solve extremely complex problems?" I am a problem solver my profession, and I would not want to be President or any of the staff. I already have a difficult time getting my mind to stop long enough to sleep. I guess this is why many Presidents and admin appear to age faster when in those positions.

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I agree, Iran has a very sizable percentage of moderates; they're one of the reasons I hope we don't resort to war. With time, maybe they'll gain the upper hand there.

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RE: Tehran a paradox - 10/5/2007 3:17:33 PM   
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...purely out of interest, is the gap between Iran's rich and poor as wide as it is in the USA?


I don't know, phil.  

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RE: Tehran a paradox - 10/5/2007 3:18:40 PM   
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The point of no return, like Iraq ? If I were Saddam I would mass every fucking nuke I could get, instead he left his country defenseless. Iran is not going to make the same mistake.

I think it is funny, but not in a good way, that Americans can't seem to see that our actions PROVE that these countries need adequate defenses AGAINST US !.

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Yep, I certainly imagine a large number of Iranians, even those that support change, and the USA, fear what we may do.

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RE: Tehran a paradox - 10/5/2007 4:11:04 PM   
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...purely out of interest, is the gap between Iran's rich and poor as wide as it is in the USA?


I don't know, phil.  


...if they're of a similar magnitude then can i vote to change the word of the day to  'irony'........

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