Iranian Opposition

The years following the Revolution in Iran, the opposition to the Islamic Republic has grown increasingly weak. The reason is quite simple; they do not represent what the real people of Iran want!Although we have a lot of Iranian Nationalist groups, who are constantly and openly opposing the current regime, they are not powerful! They have no influence. People don't respect them because many of them are doing the whole opposition gig as a hobby. Even though many of them have great points and have suffered greatly from the Islamic Republic, it is hard for an average Iranian living in Iran, to believe someone who has been out of the country for more then 28 years, is living a very comfortable life in Beverly Hills (not that there is any wrong in great success of our people outside the country), and is holding speeches on how to make Iran a better place. They may have learned a lot from the advanced democracy’s of the West but until they see the current situation in Iran, it is very hard to know what kind of audience you are speaking to. It's not the same audience that you had during the Shah's time in or power nor is it the energetic audience that were willing to die for freedom in the beginning of the Revolution. It is an audience which has been fed lies upon lies upon lies, and has been tormented with Arab traditions for way to long. This is an audience which now wrongly believes that the base of Iranian Nationalism is based on Islam and has forgotten the Great Kings of our past. All they have learned in school is how to read Arabic as fast as possible and how ''great'' the mullahs are. Even when they are not in school and they turn on the television (not counting the few million people in Iran who receive news from satellites) all they see is how everything is going perfect and how everyone loves Islam and all its Imam's and such. If a foreign didn't know any better and they turned on the Iranian state news channel and watched they would believe that everyone in Iran is completely happy and that Iran is paradise.This is all false and unfortunately that is what our youth has been pumped with for the last 28 years. None of the young people in Iran know what real freedom is, because they have never had it!Freedom is not just being able to wear the cloths that you want; it’s much more than that. The problems of freedom in Iran are so deep that none of the teenagers who have spent their entire lives in Iran will ever know about real freedom if they are not told. They need to know that the women for example, they don't really care if they have to wear a ridiculous Arabic outfit, they care when they are being treated like slaves. It’s much more important for them to know that their government will back them if their being abused by their husbands, or the courts will support them when their getting a divorce from their husbands. The current government doesn’t help women who are being mistreated by their husbands but instead encourages that kind of behaviour from men because they believe a husband has that right. The current government doesn’t even respect the women’s rights when it comes right down to the court room. If a women wants to get a divorce from their husband (which is VERY rarely granted to a women in a Islamic State) she has to prove that he either abuses her in some way or he is abuses drugs, and if she proves this (by having a number of witnesses is practically the only way) she still receives almost nothing from the divorce, probably not even the kids unless the father is a obvious drug addict and cannot stand on his legs. This is just some of the freedom problems that WOMEN face in Iran, not to mention the press, the teenagers (particularly the ones who enjoy Western freedoms), the farmers, the lawyers, and the list is infinite!The Iranian Nationalist opposition has to stand up for those kinds of freedoms, not the false ones. Even if you grant people the freedom to look the way they like, what good does it make when they are later that same day arrested for insulting the government or because they were seen with a girl.How can you teach people democracy when they still don't know right from wrong? How can you teach people to wear seat belts when they don't even respect a simple traffic light?I really hope that the opposition focuses its campaign on these issues instead of trying to please the people by encouraging them to look like Western puppets.
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