P3/3: Our World: Iran, 30

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Thirty years after the foundation of an Islamic Republic in Iran, the BBC's Tehran Correspondent Jon Leyne explores the legacy of the revolution, and asks what the future holds in this changing society.

Broadcast on: BBC News Channel, 1:30am Saturday 21st February 2009

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[shassana]

"AliSanaei83" your channel is just perfect.

[AliSanaei83]

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[ass711]

only because america puts harsh and cruel sanctions on iran and poverty doesn't exclude the government - ahmadinejad once gave away 200$ to all citizens of iran who asked for it, and iran has a universal healthcare system providing health care service for all registered citizens.

[zelzalosolh]

I wonder what goes through this guys empty head when he walks around Azadi and sees hundreds of thousands more than one million humans and he still tricks his head into believing Iranians want to copy British lifestyle and culture. What a sham.

[jessica5666]

@ass711 super power my ass. You can't even feed your people and give clean water to all towns!

[jessica5666]

super power my ass. You can't even feed your people and give clean water to all towns!

[EdwardRommel]

@zelzalosolh Where did most of the Iranian refugees from the Iranian Revolution flee to? the USA and Britain.

They didn't go to the USSR.

So yes the iranians deep down like western culture...particularly Anglo-American culture.

[EdwardRommel]

@ass711 But your Iran STILL doesn't have free and open elections...so no real democracy...it's rule by the Mullahs...it's a theocracy..so no separation of Church ans state...and its still full of corruption per Transparency International.

[susumu07]

At 3:58 the boys with shoes.... this must be after the Iraqi guy threw his shoe at Bush, the shoe is now a protest symbol worldwide.

the shoe is now more powerful than the sword or the gun!

[fucklifemana]

@zelzalosolh i am hazara from afghanistan. and i love iran

i 100% agree with you about this propaganda they people just making muslims look bad

[arian651x]

that cunt(ahmadinejad)says iran has become a super power under islamic regim, while there is so much poverty and unemployment and lack of freedom, fuck this government and mullahs and their supporters which is ofcourse the BBC and britain

[MOYOwaBANTU]

the West blast the Islamic Republic not because of its desire that they embrace "liberal democracy" but bc the Islamic Republic believes that the Middle East is its sphere of Influence and Israel, U.S., and Arab dictators don't have any legitimacy in how they cut it up to meet their own individual self-interest. The West only wants the Iranian people to embrace "Western" things in order to feel culturally subordinate which mean kill their desire to reclaim the region as their own

[MOYOwaBANTU]

Iran will one day liberalize, but not bc the West believes it should or bc those who superficially admire Western culture believes it should be, it will be when the average person in Iran organically wants to, meaning that women will continue to wear hajab even though it will not be mandated...that is what real culture is, see the problem with Turkey making hajab illegal, discriminating against religious people, will create the problem they are trying to avoid

[MOYOwaBANTU]

Its sad, this Brit is trying so hard to create a controversial story about how the Iranian people are disappointed with the revolution. "women are wearing blue jeans, listening to pop music." Then he compares the "divisions" of today to the one that overthrew the Shah, and to cap it off he goes to talk to a wanna be Iranian rapper .

Iran has always be the superpower of the Middle East, and it seeking to reassert that again in dangerous opposition to the West that is what this is all about