Iran's Children of Tomorrow
http://zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2009/06/irans-children-of-tomorrow.htmlIran's Children of Tomorrow
[From NYT] They are known mockingly as the "Joojeh Basiji" — the "chicken Basiji." These are the militia scarcely old enough to manage more than a feeble beard. Teenagers, brainwashed from early childhood, they have been ferried into the capital in large numbers, given a club and a shield and a helmet and told to go to work.
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Whatever happens now, all is changed utterly in Iran. Opacity, a force of the Islamic Republic, has yielded to a riveting transparency in which one side confronts another. The online youth of Iran will not be reconciled to a regime that touts global "ethics" and "justice" while trampling on them at home.
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I bow my head to the youth of Iran, the youth that is open-eyed, bold and far stronger and more numerous than the near-beardless vigilantes.
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Whatever happens now, all is changed utterly in Iran. Opacity, a force of the Islamic Republic, has yielded to a riveting transparency in which one side confronts another. The online youth of Iran will not be reconciled to a regime that touts global "ethics" and "justice" while trampling on them at home.
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I bow my head to the youth of Iran, the youth that is open-eyed, bold and far stronger and more numerous than the near-beardless vigilantes.
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