Khodam jaan, reading this post and your posts in general, I think there's an inherent difference in the way we look at things. You tend to focus on short periods of time to draw your conclusions, generally from one day to two years, whereas I tend to look at much longer periods of time generally from 2-10 years. That's why it's easy for you to proclaim that Khatami undertook some great reforms that changes the history of Iran, because at most you look at the first two years of his presidency, whereas I would say that his changes were merely cosmetic and non-structural, before nothing that he did lasted through my two year outlook.
The same thing applies to your post here. You think analyze the in-fighting and fractures within the regime using that 6 month to 2 year outlook and conclude that the infighting had nothing to do with the cheating on the elections because it falls outside your outlook period. The infighting had infact begun prior to the last election and we're simply half way through an outlook period of 10 years. It's tough to reach any consensus when our outlooks are so different, because even when I have conceded that certain things did happen for short periods of time (as I have done many times in the Khatami argument), you're not willing to accept that certain things did not follow through for longer periods - you're just not willing to budge past that 6 month to 2 year outlook and in terms of the general population in Iran, I highly doubt they look even that far ahead - most issues are looked at either as what they are today or what they were 16 years ago, 35 years ago, 60 years ago or 106 years ago. There's very little in terms of looking to the future IMHO.
The same thing applies to your post here. You think analyze the in-fighting and fractures within the regime using that 6 month to 2 year outlook and conclude that the infighting had nothing to do with the cheating on the elections because it falls outside your outlook period. The infighting had infact begun prior to the last election and we're simply half way through an outlook period of 10 years. It's tough to reach any consensus when our outlooks are so different, because even when I have conceded that certain things did happen for short periods of time (as I have done many times in the Khatami argument), you're not willing to accept that certain things did not follow through for longer periods - you're just not willing to budge past that 6 month to 2 year outlook and in terms of the general population in Iran, I highly doubt they look even that far ahead - most issues are looked at either as what they are today or what they were 16 years ago, 35 years ago, 60 years ago or 106 years ago. There's very little in terms of looking to the future IMHO.
and complete s PHD program with that "Thesis" !!!
