theRepublic
01-17-2003, 06:08 PM
http://iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin....=16&a=7 (http://iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news_en.pl?l=en&y=2003&m=01&d=16&a=7)
* In his speech titled "From Political Gridlock to Crisis of Legitimacy," director of the contemporary studies department of the Tehran cultural research center Ramin Jahanbegloo said last night at Washington's Woodrow Wilson institute that the rift between the regime's realities and popular expectations is the most challenging political phenomenon faced by the Islamic Republic. He added that government surveys shows that 90 percent of Iranians want change, and only 6 percent express satisfaction with the current system. He added that 55 percent of Iranians live under the poverty line, and during the largest wave of brain drain in Iran's history, more than 400,000 college graduates left Iran in the past seven years. He added that the regime is faced with a crisis of legitimacy, which would either end by hardliners' military coup or by a civic rebellion against the regime, or by a centrist coalition at the top. (Mahtab Farid)
* In his speech titled "From Political Gridlock to Crisis of Legitimacy," director of the contemporary studies department of the Tehran cultural research center Ramin Jahanbegloo said last night at Washington's Woodrow Wilson institute that the rift between the regime's realities and popular expectations is the most challenging political phenomenon faced by the Islamic Republic. He added that government surveys shows that 90 percent of Iranians want change, and only 6 percent express satisfaction with the current system. He added that 55 percent of Iranians live under the poverty line, and during the largest wave of brain drain in Iran's history, more than 400,000 college graduates left Iran in the past seven years. He added that the regime is faced with a crisis of legitimacy, which would either end by hardliners' military coup or by a civic rebellion against the regime, or by a centrist coalition at the top. (Mahtab Farid)