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| Those Sexy Iranians |
| 2004-05-08 |
| Women are required to cover their hair and to wear either a chador cloak or an overcoat, called a manteau, every time they go out, and these are meant to be black and shapeless. But the latest fashion here in Shiraz, in central Iran, is light, tight and sensual. Unlike Lynndie England’s outfit. "There are some manteaus with slits on the sides up to the armpits," said Mahmoud Salehi, a 25-year-old manteau salesman. "And then there are the `commando manteaus,’ with ties on the legs to show off the hips and an elastic under the breasts to accentuate the bust." They should be sending these commandos to Iraq. They’d probably be more effective. Worse, from the point of view of hard-line mullahs, young women in such clothing aren’t getting 74 lashes any more — they’re getting dates. As the decadent Disney cartoon says, "Love conquers all." "Parents can’t defeat children," Mr. Salehi mused. "Children always defeat their parents." At last, a universal truth And that’s what Iran’s baby boomers, a wave of 18 million people 15 to 25 years old, are doing. They will transform their country, just as baby boomers in the West changed America and Europe. I don’t think Iran’s theocracy can survive them, for I’ve never been to a country where young people seem more frustrated. The ultimate weapon against the Mullahs, Boomers. The regime’s problem is that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini exhorted Iranians to have more children, and they responded — today, 60 percent of the country’s population was born after his Iranian revolution. And these young people are determining social mores and carving out a small zone of freedom for themselves. Perhaps sime is on our side! snip |
| Posted by:Mr. Davis |
| #3 I work with several other Iranian engineers - mostly Civil, sent over before the fall of the Shah, and they convey a deep societal cynicism from their families and friends still there. There's a tipping point coming, I hope we don't miss it... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-08 7:01:51 PM |
| #2 The mullahs are losing control because this current young generation considers them irrelvant. Like when the seeds of destruction of the Soviet Union were sewn when a Georgian non ethnic Russian ruled over Russia with no ethnic ties except by marriage, so will it be that the seeds of demise of the Islamic Republic will be due to the edicts of an English-Pakistani "holy-man" whose only ethnic ties to Iran are by marriage! |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-08 6:51:01 PM |
| #1 Re: Perhaps time is on our side... It is a race between natural internal forces, the Mad Mullahs' Nuke dreams, and external intervention - which seems to have the US General Election as one of its major modifiers... Can anyone here picture anybody besides Bush allowing (Iraq overflights) or materially assisting (air-air refueling, etc) Israel -- or taking the lead -- to decap the Mullahs, Rev Guard thugs, and Guardian Council? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-08 1:28:34 PM |