The Average Iranians

Like many in the West, when I think of Iran, I think of Bearded Mullahs, “Death to America, Death to England” (‘Marg Bar Amerika, Marg Bar Angeleez’), Revolutionary Guards, and women in chadors and veils.

 

Iranian State Organised Protests - Death To Someone

But mostly I guess I think of Mullahs, Women oppressed, Iranian backed 'Hamas' and ‘Hizbollah’ militias, Terror attacks. I rarely, if ever think about what the people of Iran are really like.

 

The End of History or a New World Order?

When Soviet style “Communism” collapsed in Russia in the early 1990’s (but not in China), a historian (Francis Fukuyama), made a few bucks, with a statement (pamphlet and later a book), claiming that history had ended, and that Liberal Democratic Capitalism had won.

 

The End Of History Was Wrong

 

He further stated that from then on, Democracy and Free Trading would spread round the globe, and all our problems would be over.