Category Archives: Iran’s 1979 Revolution

Persian Oligarchy

Posted on January 6, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Persian Oligarchy”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailHis idiotic Holocaust revisionism, aggressive statements on Israel, and avowed Mahdism make it easy to draw the popular caricature of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a crazy, nuclear-obsessed dictator. He is just a useful distraction for … Continue reading →

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Cole Studies Khomeini

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Cole Studies Khomeini”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailDr. Mueller’s Comparative Politics class required each student to pick one country and make a close study of its government. As a result I spent two months immersed in the Byzantine constitution of the Islamic … Continue reading →

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Iran’s Youth Challenge

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Iran’s Youth Challenge”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailAs I’ve said before, what we’re seeing in Iran is not a new revolution but the long-delayed continuation of the old one. From HuffPo: Since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution thirty years ago, Iran … Continue reading →

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Iran and its Revolutions

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Iran and its Revolutions”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailContrary to popular wisdom, Iran’s 1979 revolution was not led by the Ayatollah Khomeini. It was hijacked. A popular revolt against the Shah, 1978 ended with Marxists in Ché Guevara-outfits, middle-class bazaaris holding signs, … Continue reading →

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Square-Peg Pounding Continues

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Square-Peg Pounding Continues”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe neocon counteroffensive against the National Intelligence Estimate went into full swing today. Their dream of reversing the 1979 revolution cannot be denied, even by reality. Alan Dershowitz showed up on Huffpost (once a paladin … Continue reading →

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Selling Iran, Part 3

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Selling Iran, Part 3″FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail ‘Iran is a crazy country, run by a new Hitler, who is building nuclear weapons to destroy the United States and Israel.’ That is the essence of the White House marketing campaign to … Continue reading →