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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19088/iran-recipes-devil
The Khomeinist System Is on Borrowed Time
(Gatestone Institute) Amir Taheri - The Islamic Republic of Iran is struggling to crush the latest popular revolt. So far we have the names of 385 protesters killed, including 40 women, 32 children, and 7 security men. A further 12,500 people have been arrested. Iran has a predominantly young population that wants to live in the here and now, not in a distant past of fake purity or an imaginary future of martyrdom and paradise. It wants to be happy; to have fun, to create, to work, to travel across the globe; in short, to enjoy a normal life. Yet the Supreme Guide repeats that he shall never allow Iran to "become a normal country." Even if it weathers the current storm, the Khomeinist system is on life-support and borrowed time. The writer was the executive editor-in-chief of the daily Kayhan in Iran from 1972 to 1979.