Iranian democracy in action

[Tribesman]

alcohol and drugs, secularists, liberals, anarchists and feminists.

He is just after a job as right wing religeous pundit on one of Ruperts networks .
He has banned all foreign films in an effort to wipe out -- eew! -- 'corrupt Western culture'.

There are some French who would like to do the same

Does the Iranian President have the authority to ban films? Just like that?

I thought it was the guardians of morality or whatever they call themselves that dealt with censorship not the President .
Oh well it was bound to happen after the moderates and reformers were sidelined .
A hardening of positions is occuring throughout the region for some strange reason .
I cannot for the life of me think why . Anyone would think the hardliners feel under threat .

[Adrian II]

A hardening of positions is occuring throughout the region for some strange reason. I cannot for the life of me think why.

Because of a 'corrupt western influence', Mr President?

[Tribesman]

Because of a 'corrupt western influence', Mr President?
Ah a corrupt Western influence vying for dominance with a corrupt Eastern influence ......hmmmmm.....pity the poor ordinary buggers stuck in the middle eh , they get shafted both ways .

[Dâriûsh]

Oh, but they do. I am told young Iranians have more and better sex then we have in the West. There's more than one way to fold a burka...

Obviously, Mahmoud and his advisory committee aren't gittin any.

The infamous underground parties are an urban phenomenon. Much like parties in the west, really.

The new president is indeed quite a little sunshine:

The same stance as Ayatollah Khamenei. The evil Jews are a convenient excuse to avoid talking about domestic problems.

I thought it was the guardians of morality or whatever they call themselves that dealt with censorship not the President .

The Constitutional Guardian Counsel. Human equivalents of fire breathing dragons.

Sad day he got elected yes, but I don't think it will last very long.

Inshallah.

[Fragony]

I take it you still have family there Dariush, what is the word on the streets about mr Presidents's flirt with disaster?

[Dâriûsh]

I take it you still have family there Dariush, what is the word on the streets about mr Presidents's flirt with disaster?

I haven’t heard anything about his latest ‘gem’. But generally, people I talk to are still hoping that he will unintentionally cause a peaceful revolution, like the Ukrainian Orange Revolution.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Ah! Iranian politics was opening up nicely. The reform movement was growing, civil society and the economy booming and taking the country to new levels of openess...

And then Bush decides to go on about axis of evil, threaten attacks, invade Iran's neighbours on both sides - and then suprise suprise - the conservatives sweep back into power on a wave of anti-US feeling.

Top stuff Bush - you total t*%t.

Right, because they have totally fair and open election processes there.

Crazed Rabbit

[Tribesman]

Right, because they have totally fair and open election processes there.
If you wanted to coax a rather angry bear out of a cave , would you go in and poke it with a stick or leave a pile of food outside Rabbit ?

[Meneldil]

He would bomb it back to the stone age

[Adrian II]

If you wanted to coax a rather angry bear out of a cave, would you go in and poke it with a stick or leave a pile of food outside Rabbit ?

I would blow up the bear's Twin Towers.

[Redleg]

Right, because they have totally fair and open election processes there.
If you wanted to coax a rather angry bear out of a cave , would you go in and poke it with a stick or leave a pile of food outside Rabbit ?

Depends if I wanted to kill the bear or not.