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Student Protests in Iran
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CURRENT ISSUES
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10 / 1999 |
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Iran rocks UNITED STATES--The demonstrations that have rocked Iran hit day six, only [July 14] it was the mullahs' turn to send their supporters into the streets. No matter. This most strategic of countries isn't likely to be the same; these protests, begun by students, are the first such street protests to occur in Iran's theocratic Islamic republic since the United States helped overthrow the shah in 1979. Perhaps another major breakthrough is in the air. ...
To help a large and important country like Iran rejoin the community of serious nations, the West should suggest internationally supervised elections, without restrictions on candidacy. No doubt most Iranians would prefer to live in a settled society. It should be made increasingly clear, however, that free societies, not desperate authoritarian regimes, are the best guarantors of stability over the long run.
--Wall Street Journal
July 15, 1999
Ayatollah deng
UNITED STATES--The Iranian Government has a big, big problem. Too many young people in Iran today know how the rest of the world is living, and they want a slice of it. But their Government can't deliver it, because it has failed to diversify the Iranian economy away from oil and create enough new jobs to absorb the huge number of under-25-year-olds coming into the workforce. To do that, Iran would need to be more open to the world, foreign investors and
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