[Marxism] A velvet revolution in Iran?

[Louis Proyect]

Jscotlive at aol.com wrote:
  > The regime led by Ahamdinejad may not be socialist, but in its 
resistance
> to US hegemony, in its material aid to the Arab resistance against Israeli  
> expansionism, it plays a progressive role. 
>  

That's true, but you could have said the same thing about Stalin's USSR. 
Ironically, Iran makes the same kind of vacillating mistakes as Stalin, 
choosing one time to assist the US in its war in Afghanistan and at 
another time opposing it.

I guess I was inoculated against the idea of an "anti-imperialist" Iran 
during the late 80s when I was deeply involved with Nicaragua 
solidarity. Oliver North's delivery of a cake in the shape of a key to 
Tehran was like a tetanus shot.