WASHINGTON TIMES
by Clifford May
November 11, 2014
Calling the revolution ‘over’ terminates the facts with ‘extreme prejudice’
“The revolution is over.” When journalists at The Economist, one of the world’s most influential publications, run that headline on a cover story, “a special report” on the “new Iran,” you assume they have solid evidence to support their thesis.
You assume wrong. What The Economist presents instead are unsubstantiated assertions: “The revolutionary fervor and drab conformism have gone.” And lame aphorisms: “Globalization trumps Puritanism even here.” And platitudes: “In a highly educated and well-informed society, only so much can be imposed from above.” And weird theories: “Pornography, although strictly banned, blazes a trail for freedom.”
Even The Economist’s history is fallacious. Readers are instructed that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, “was essentially an anarchist” who “despised state structures,” but who realized that the “gains of the revolution could be cemented only with the help of permanent institutions.”…..
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