aawsat, Amir Taheri:

At the time of the ayatollah’s return, Iran’s population was 38 million. Today it is close to 80 million. The demographic balance has tipped in favor of the future and against the past. Almost two-thirds of Iranians today were either not born at the time of the mullahs’ takeover or were children not involved in the shenanigans of their elders. Moreover, graveyards are full of those who started and led the Khomeinist revolution while tens of thousands of first generation Khomeinists have fled to exile in places as far as Syndey in Australia to New Bern in North Carolina.

We cannot say that the blood of children should be spilt to atone for the parents’ guilt. To the new generation of Iranians my quarrel with the dead ayatollah and his octogenarian successor appears anachronistic, not to say weird.

The younger Iranians are not interested in things their parents were interested in. They don’t give two hoots about ideology and do not approach the modern world, a world in the creation of which we played no role, with a mixture of fascination and suspicion. They want to be part of this creative but chaotic world which, whenever given the slightest chance, they have shown they can contribute to.

So, I feel sorry for these new generations that are forced to under-achieve, to live below their capabilities because the morally bankrupt Khomeinist sect has built a wall around Iran.

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