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    Wednesday
    March 29, 1999

Khatami: worst choice

It is very saddening to find that Iranians never learn from their mistakes ["Iranian of the Year"]. Long time ago when I was a little boy I came about hearing stories about what type of people mollas are. Obviously when Khomeini's name re-appeared in the media I became enthusiastic that Iranians have found someone who would stand up to the Shah who obviously seemed to have developed a very corrupt system of ruling the country. So I went out to the streets and along with other Iranians chanted "Death to the Shah" and hoped for the better not realising that the fabric of the clergy (any clergy for that matter) is the same and the forgot that power corrupts. Obviously I was not the only person who was misguided and lots of other Iranians hoped for the better when they, more or less, welcomed Khomeini.

Now in hindsight I have been awakened once again to the fact that apart from the fact that power corrupts (which is evidenced by all the atrocities that Khomeini committed and his successors are following up the same course whether one may say that those who committed the atrocities while Khomeini was alive are continuing with what they were doing then and Khomeini himself is not to blame that I vehemently disagree with in any case) it is true that religious rule is the worst government as it draws on the power of "god" and the religious people will do anything they wish to do by resorting to the excuse that what they say is "god's" commands.

Anyway to make all this short, Iranians are again being fooled by a "progressive" molla. But as usual religion has never been progressive for their promoters to be progressive and as such those who are foolishly hoping to establish a democratic regime under Khatami are again blindfolded with the fact that first of all he is a molla and as such can not be progressive regardless of what he says. And the fact that what he does is completely different from what he says is another reason that Iranians are again chasing their own tails and are hoping for some good to come out from this very shrewd and clever clergy who is manipulating Iranians to score points with his competition who is Khamenei's faction.

It seems to me that Iranians don't have an alternative currently as those who advocate return to monarchy are up to their own old tricks. Mojahedin have shown that they are quite immature and communists have failed to show any hope for the future of human societies. I suppose that the fact that Iranians don't have anyone to lead them and there does not seem to be any political party in existence that could be trusted to unite Iranians behind itself has driven the Iranian people to find a refuge in Khatami. But I am afraid this is the worst option Iranians have got. In the hope that some day Iranians wake up to the fact that they are in this mess because they submitted to Islam.

Jamshid E.


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