Comments on: Where does power lie in Iran? http://cafehayek.com/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: aub http://cafehayek.com/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html/comment-page-1#comment-53892 aub Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.86.159/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html#comment-53892 <p>If it's true that the president is only the 17th or so most important person in Iran, then why rig the elections at all? Why would the Mullahs expend the resources and fight so hard against the protesters? </p> <p>Surely one #17 would be the same as another #17. </p> If it's true that the president is only the 17th or so most important person in Iran, then why rig the elections at all? Why would the Mullahs expend the resources and fight so hard against the protesters?

Surely one #17 would be the same as another #17.

]]> By: DAVE http://cafehayek.com/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html/comment-page-1#comment-53893 DAVE Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.86.159/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html#comment-53893 <p>It may well be that he is merely perceived as most powerful.</p> <p>No offense to young Iranians, but they do tend to get a little to excited about things. See Iran 1979.</p> It may well be that he is merely perceived as most powerful.

No offense to young Iranians, but they do tend to get a little to excited about things. See Iran 1979.

]]> By: TrUmPiT http://cafehayek.com/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html/comment-page-1#comment-53894 TrUmPiT Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.86.159/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html#comment-53894 <p>I'm sure Mousavi would be marginally different (better) than Ahmadinejad. Economists love the term "marginally" or "at the margin." Some advocate that gradual change is better than abrupt change in government or economic system such as what happened in the USSR. Usually abrupt regime change by war is the most disruptive and destructive, as what happened in Iraq with the 2nd gulf war. Civil wars are notoriously nasty and bloody. If the system is rotten to the core, then maybe abrupt change is the best way to go. But usually a new "rotten to the core" government replaces the old system. When the Shah of Iran's government collapsed, we got the Mullahs running the show. That may have been going from bad to worse, although at the time most Iranians were happy to oust the shah, who was viewed as a puppet of the U.S. The Iranians and Cubans can't seem to drop the "revolutionary" tags for their system, and must continually rev up revolutionary fervor. On the other hand, you don't see the Vietnamese living in the past. I would say that revolutionary movements that can't get past the original revolution are failed systems. Who thinks of the 4th of July as anything but a day off for barbeque or going to the beach? </p> I'm sure Mousavi would be marginally different (better) than Ahmadinejad. Economists love the term "marginally" or "at the margin." Some advocate that gradual change is better than abrupt change in government or economic system such as what happened in the USSR. Usually abrupt regime change by war is the most disruptive and destructive, as what happened in Iraq with the 2nd gulf war. Civil wars are notoriously nasty and bloody. If the system is rotten to the core, then maybe abrupt change is the best way to go. But usually a new "rotten to the core" government replaces the old system. When the Shah of Iran's government collapsed, we got the Mullahs running the show. That may have been going from bad to worse, although at the time most Iranians were happy to oust the shah, who was viewed as a puppet of the U.S. The Iranians and Cubans can't seem to drop the "revolutionary" tags for their system, and must continually rev up revolutionary fervor. On the other hand, you don't see the Vietnamese living in the past. I would say that revolutionary movements that can't get past the original revolution are failed systems. Who thinks of the 4th of July as anything but a day off for barbeque or going to the beach?

]]> By: Cheers http://cafehayek.com/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html/comment-page-1#comment-53895 Cheers Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.86.159/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html#comment-53895 <p>I was actually speaking to a friend last night who is close to some of the actors. He said that the main issue is that it is because it's essentially a disregard of not only the people of iran's ability to vote in the republic, but also for the revolutionary movement 10 years ago.</p> <p>Keep in mind as well that one of the two main disagreements between sunni and shia perspectives is the need for theocratic rule over the country.</p> I was actually speaking to a friend last night who is close to some of the actors. He said that the main issue is that it is because it's essentially a disregard of not only the people of iran's ability to vote in the republic, but also for the revolutionary movement 10 years ago.

Keep in mind as well that one of the two main disagreements between sunni and shia perspectives is the need for theocratic rule over the country.

]]> By: John http://cafehayek.com/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html/comment-page-1#comment-53896 John Tue, 30 Nov 1999 07:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.86.159/2009/06/where-does-power-lie-in-iran.html#comment-53896 <p><i>Surely one #17 would be the same as another #17.</i></p> <p>Who are you?<br /> The new Number Two.<br /> Who is Number One?<br /> You are Number Seventeen.<br /> I am not a number! I am a the president of Iran!</p> Surely one #17 would be the same as another #17.

Who are you?
The new Number Two.
Who is Number One?
You are Number Seventeen.
I am not a number! I am a the president of Iran!

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