Best Article on Iran Election Process I've seen

[Occhidiangela]

I seem to remember the "Students" were pissed because Carter let Pahlavi go to New York to get cancer treatment. Nothing to do with starting a coup.

*shrug*

Amazing how history books are written, eh?

I'd guess that "the clerics" and other operatives are each pursuing their own faction's position and interests, with the various students and other players, like the Basij, as useful tools. "The students" in 1979 were a bit more than that, eh?

Were the clerics unified, there'd be no signifncant problem. As they are not, but like wise men of all ages given to disagreeing with one another, it is difficult to see any outcome that changes life for the average Persian on the ground substantially.

Occhi