Opinion: Roger Cohen on Iran - nytimes.com/video

[jasonthemankiller]

Cohen has got it wrong Mousavi was never close to Ayatallah Khomeyni

[72Yonatan]

Roger Cohen is a person who wants to be fooled. He lets himself become a tool for Islamic fascists.

[77Merav]

Ahmadinejad and the Mullahs are evil, stop trying to understand!!!!!!!!!

[1hatetohate1]

The very kind of democracy that has brought south Africa to its current disastrous poverty , The very kind of democracy that Mandela who once so was in favor of freedom and equally for all south Africans turned 360 degrees in his political opinions under IMF supervision !

Look what they did in that country , or in Afghanistan !

Used Blitz Critz Natzi style attacks in Iraq , Afghanistan now they want to start on Iran

[Lloyidian]

just a technical one, it's 180 degrees!!

[1hatetohate1]

How can we trust a government that fraudulently brings Bush to power? Bush said we wanted to bring freedom and democracy in Iraq!

Oh yeah , we all knew what kind democracy Bush wanted to bring to Iraq . Free market economy just to bring democracy for those putrid warmongering Capitalists of Shell and Construction companies , etc

The very kind of democracy that has brought south Africa to its current disastrous poverty ,

[1hatetohate1]

Down with a military industrial as well as if we can forget how many people got killed from Iranians and Iraqis during Iraq Iran war just to make those military industrial company owners even richer than ever before !

[1hatetohate1]

They very ones who supported Islamic brotherhood in Egypt and Monarchs in Saudi Arabia, Jordan , Yemen , Iraq , Iran! The very ones who supported Khomeini and Mullahs over Mossadegh !

The very ones who supported Pinochet in Chili , Yeltsin in Russia and Chinese tigers in china and

[1hatetohate1]

Go away with your Chicago school economy .

Cohen I am afraid is nothing more than a secret agent sent there to discuass their free market economical plan with Mullahs !

Assholes !

People should go for a developmentalist is policy .

Down with a Keynesian economy as well !

How one can trust they very people who supported Political Islam over Arabs and Iranian nationalism .

[ebila2000]

I wish there were more brave, courageous and sincere journalists like Roger Cohen.

Thanks

[TissuePrices]

more propoganda

[jtravis282]

So, the Neocons were right about Ahmadinejad all along.

[docsocal]

i think Roger Cohen has done a sincere job as a foreign journalist under severe restrictions to represent the truth that the people of Iran wanted conveyed to the world. It must have been a very emotional time, (a cross between the french revolution, the holocaust, and the killing fields of cambodia). Thank you for your coverage.

[nhedjazi]

Great analysis as always.

[TheOriginalIronMan]

yes great analysis, im iranian and these are sum really great comments

[sexlessparents]

I would also like to say , I have been waiting for years for people to demand freedom and a more open society. I am only 20 years old

but I have been studying Iranian Society for 10 years. I can speak farsi and I even look Iranian, because I am spanish.

I work for a certain department in Virginia.

My job for the last two years was to get information about the young generation of Iran and introduce details on how to undermine the authority.

[wavinglight]

I think some Americans are misinformed but on average US society is more open to the influences of change than other countries...and it is time for NYT to put a reasonable cap on the resource and tie it spent on Iran and get back with N Korea

[sexlessparents]

i always knew that in iran people were not muslim fanatics.

maybe i am not part of the

dumb downed masses in america

Islam is a great religion , but when it is used to oppress people it turns people away from it. A lot of young people in Iran

are not even religious at all

[intracoast]

What surprises me about this event is what made the people of Iran think they would ever have a fair election? As to Mr. Cohen's point about American's getting a more rounded view of Iranian society because of this government crackdown...how presumptuous of him to suppose what Americans know or think. Many Americans could guess that living in a repressive dictatorship would bring about dissatisfaction among many people. I find Cohen to be an elitist who sheds little light on this event.

[hamestersmiley]

Very insightful. I watched all Roger's reports from Tehran on Charlie Rose. Thanks for showing such spirit in those chaotic circumstances and giving true journalism a tremendous contribution.

[abarzilai664]

Well Mr. Cohen you kept writing that Mahmoud was rational and played down any extremism from him. I guess it takes a stolen election yo see the real Mahmoud. How about giving us a mea culpa saying how naive you were about Mahmoud.

[artbiz45]

I don't know how to think when a Jewish person give an opinion about Iran. You never know by the way why every one who has an opinion is a Jew?

[MrTheVanquish]

great analysis!

[par6912]

I agree it is a really good analysis