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Originally Posted by scandium
. To me its the theocrats in charge who are to blame. They are the ones with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. The people themselves go along with it partly because it is indoctrinated into them from birth, and partly because the pressure to conform there is unbelievably high (as evidenced by the various forms of repression practiced there coupled with the severe forms of corporal and capital punishments handed out to those who commit infractions of it).
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Which is one of the reasons why im becoming more and more convinced that war, is inevitable. To root out the problem, means two words bush is famous for.
Regime Change.
Its funny, the theorcrats are essentually muslim clerics, and they always seem to look the same with a black turban giving some speech with their finger pointed in the air as if to emphasis their point. Kinda like these two more well known clerics from iraq:
This is the visual essense of the real iranian leadership, only they hide behind a puppet president as a mouth piece.
The BBC put up a nice piece on who holds the real power in Iran.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/h...ml/default.stm
With people like that in charge of the country... well.... nothign rational will come of it. How can negotiate with a country whos goverment is essentualy founded on religous ferver? (and as a preemtive response, "the US is too", we do have a formal speration of church and state here. Unfortuantly There are however, those who wish to remove those boundries, hopefully they never do, or we will be no better then a country like Iran )