pI'm no specialist on the current situation in Iran, but a href="http://drinksoakedtrotsforwar.com/2009/06/24/guest-post-by-slavoj-zizek/"this/a looks quite a convincing piece of analysis to me:/ppem"Ahmadinejad is not the hero of the Islamist poor, but a genuine corrupted Islamo-Fascist populist, a kind of Iranian Berlusconi whose mixture of clownish posturing and ruthless power politics is causing unease even among the majority of ayatollahs. His demagogic distributing of crumbs to the poor should not deceive us: behind him are not only organs of police repression and a very Westernized PR apparatus, but also a strong new rich class, the result of the regime’s corruption (Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is not a working class militia, but a mega-corporation, the strongest center of wealth in the country)."/embr /br /br /br //pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12478668-7893870085345793972?l=nevertrustahippy.blogspot.com'//div
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