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Tehran's "Deciders" Are an Increasingly Isolated Minority
(Asharq Al-Awsat-UK) Amir Taheri - The Khomeinist regime's support base, mired in corruption, finds it increasingly hard to communicate with society at large. The mass gatherings that the regime organizes should deceive no one. Today, the Tehran "deciders" constitute a small, increasingly isolated minority caught in an imagined past and fearful of the future. Worse still, many "deciders" have already put part of their money abroad, having sent their children to Europe and America. All they are interested in is to get the money and run. They are unable to build the state institutions needed for a modern economy capable of seeking a credible place in the global market. The writer was executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979.