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The prevailing spin on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rise to Iran’s presidency wrongly suggests that a win for his rivals could have ushered a dawn of enlightenment. The mainstream press has largely described Iran’s competing factions as little more than vote-rigging theocrats arrayed against tolerant modernizers. In particular, strong support for Ahmadinejad among the Basij militia and Revolutionary Guard corps has earned him a reputation as a Muslim fanatic. But there is a quite modern side to his grassroots popularity, too, that stresses non-dependent national development. Like the French and Dutch rejection of the proposed EU constitution earlier this summer, Ahmadinejad’s landslide win was a vote for authenticity and against forced globalization. At a time when rational science is trashed in America by fundamentalist evangelicals tied to the White House, Ahmadinejad won on a platform promising to double the already exploding public funding for advanced scientific research.
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4 August 2005, 07:45
Iran is a mistery for western people. There is lot’s of antagonism in this so called muslim state. And the population is so young and eager to get a good education just in opposite to the young people in the U.S. who are not interested in solid education but "fast" money.
We will see what happens. Hopefully the threats of the rogue states U.S. and Britain and their European epigons: France, Germany will come to an end.