The Iranian Islamic Republic Army demonstrates in solidarity with people in the street during the Iranian revolution Photo: GETTY/The Telegraph
Sex, Drugs And Islam -- Asia Times
Political Islam returned to the world stage with Ruhollah Khomeini's 1979 revolution in Iran, which became the most aggressive patron of Muslim radicals outside its borders, including Hamas in the Palestinian territories and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Until very recently, an oil-price windfall gave the Iranian state ample resources to pursue its agenda at home and abroad. How, then, should we explain an eruption of social pathologies in Iran such as drug addiction and prostitution, on a scale much worse than anything observed in the West? Contrary to conventional wisdom, it appears that Islamic theocracy promotes rather than represses social decay.
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My Comment: Unfortunately for Iran, there are many who still support the mullahs and their orthodoxy. If Iran is going to change, it will probably take generations.
Like all revolutions, the die hards and their supporters will do everything in their power to maintain power. In Iran, there are enough in them in the government to make sure that change will not happen in my life time.
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