The political merry-go-round in Tehran just hit a brick. Eleven nationally prominent economists, from universities and state-enterprises co-authored a letter that was published in Tehran yesterday. In a nutshell, the economy sucks, and all the values theater of the last election cycle was ... values theater .
Some quotable quotes: "society infected by politics" and policies dictated by "emotions and idealism regardless of their economic consequences".
The letter may take some of the heat energy out of the trads v neos generational cyclone of the primary season. A second brick I've not yet decoded was the announcement by the GC that the election date set by the Ministry of the Interior has to be reset.
Whoever wants to hold the potato needs to get some face time in Dehli and Beijing and Paris and Moscow. Ottowa would be prudent too.
Posted by EBW at November 16, 2004 02:01 PM | TrackBack