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Originally Posted by mikesinner
Irans people are more secular than people realize. Their government is the problem.
For instance many women do not want to wear the hijab but they have government paid fashion police that will accost you for not dressing conservatively enough.
Look almost everywhere in the Middle East and you see secularism growing. Of course the American right wing will never acknowledge this as it take their natural enemy away.
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Correct. Also, Iran has the largest percentage of population that is under 30-years-old of any country in the world. These young people want a more moderate leadership.
This new guy says he is a moderate and will try hard to work with the west and tone down the extremism, but like others have said, so long as the Ayatollah is in power this guy's power will be limited.