http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071128/wl_nm/iran_sanctions_people_dc
Sanctions is probably the most widely debated topic around. But it is quite clear that two sets of people will get hit by it. The first are the Seyyeds themselves, and the second group are the wealthy secular Iranians, who have managed to survive with the Seyyeds. The rest are the silent majority poor down-trodden Iranians, who won't feel the difference. The Seyyeds and their wealthy crowd have been feeding off them for ages, and it is payback time. Anyone who did not want to deal with the Seyyeds, or did not have connections in the appropriate places struggled. Their stories are too horrific to mention, and it is all based on the fact that they had different political and religious views to the Seyyeds. But if you were poor and passed all the relgious hurdles then yes you could get into the Seyyed merchant class. But if your Spririt had given you Iranian ideas, then you really struggled to implement them in Iran. And of course if you had global ideas, you had to get out, and let the folks in US to benefit from it, as Iran was not the "land of opportunity". So the US has benefited quite a lot from this. Do you think the US wants all the Iranian brains and money to go back to Iran? No. So they love the Seyyeds. They can get rid of the Seyyeds in no time if they wanted to. But Iranians like Parisa who write about Iran should talk more about the how the power of General Strike can bring the Seyyeds down.
