Here we go again with this quack Hitchens. Suddenly he is a Geologist and knows that there will definitely be an Earthquake, that will destroy Tehran.
Every Iranian feels a tremor nearly everyday all over Iran. And the homes are built to standards to withstand 5 or 6 on Richter scale. We Iranians built the Persopolis in such a way that it can stand even a 7.
Hitchens, paints Iran as if it is a backward nation only capable of selling rugs and pistachios. He has to admit that the monsters the right wing Brits like him put into power to raise the oil price to make the North Sea oil economical, have not managed to influence your average Iranian. He has had to realise that Iranians want to be modern and their music is so.
So what can the Brits and the Seyyeds do now. Iranians are ignoring them and he has to admit that they love the US culture and modern ways of the world. Iranians are not as Islamic as the Pakistan the Brits created. We reach to the Iran before Islam. The Pakistanis don't and that's where the likes of Hitchens got it badly wrong.
Everyone listened to the Islamic scholars in their Universities who have little or no regard for the Iranian Spirit that existed before Islam and is in the hearts and minds of all Iranians more than ever. That Iranian Spirit keeps the peace and binds us all so that we do not have civil war and ethnic divisions. Iran cannot become Balkanized. Iran cannot become Islamic Federations as the Seyyeds want. Iranians will have peaceful non violent change.
Mr Hitchens should realise the US could tell the world that the Iranian population could easily topple the Seyyeds with a General Strike. But the like of Hithcens and the US administration do not want to tell the world of such easy ways to get rid of the regime. They in fact want to keep the regime there to keep their military afloat in the area.
