Payback time

alimostofi
by alimostofi
28-Nov-2007
 

Personal stories are common of how the financial sanctions are affecting those mostly well-off people who have foreign bank accounts or earn income from abroad.
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Sanctions is probably the most widely debated topic around. But it is quite clear that two sets of people will get hit by it. The first are the Seyyeds themselves, and the second group are the wealthy secular Iranians, who have managed to survive with the Seyyeds. The rest are the silent majority poor down-trodden Iranians, who won't feel the difference. The Seyyeds and their wealthy crowd have been feeding off them for ages, and it is payback time. Anyone who did not want to deal with the Seyyeds, or did not have connections in the appropriate places struggled. Their stories are too horrific to mention, and it is all based on the fact that they had different political and religious views to the Seyyeds. But if you were poor and passed all the relgious hurdles then yes you could get into the Seyyed merchant class. But if your Spirit had given you Iranian ideas, then you really struggled to implement them in Iran. And of course if you had global ideas, you had to get out, and let the folks in US to benefit from it, as Iran was not the "land of opportunity". So the US has benefited quite a lot from this. Do you think the US wants all the Iranian brains and money to go back to Iran? No. So they love the Seyyeds. They can get rid of the Seyyeds in no time if they wanted to. But Iranians like Parisa who write about Iran should talk more about the how the power of General Strike can bring the Seyyeds down.
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Re: Ashkan

by jamshid on

I disagree with your regarding the brains not going back.

 

In the past, under the Pahlavis we had a dictatorial but progressive government, and the great majority of the brains would either go back, or if already in Iran, they stayed there.

 

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one issue though

by Ashkan (not verified) on

you wrote:
> Do you think the US wants all the Iranian brains and
> money to go back to Iran?

well, if they are really "brains" then they will never
ever wanna go back, no matter what.
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Thanks MasoudA, where are you man? 

 

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Indeed

by masoudA on

Good post - very true