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Granite Staters React to Unrest in Iran
By Laura Knoy on Tuesday, June 16, 2009.
A panel of Iranian-born Granite Staters joins us to talk about the country’s disputed elections…and the street protests, strikes, and violence we’re seeing now. We’ll ask our local Iranians how they view the election and the conflict that’s followed – also what they’re hearing from relatives…and – their own hopes for how this crisis will play out.
Guests
- Reza Jalili , associate professor of business at New England College
- Massood Samii , Chairman of the International Business Department and Director of Institute for International Business, at Southern New Hampshire University. He also served at the OPEC Secretariat in Vienna Austria as a senior economist and the head of the finance section
- Ali, a 30-year old phD candidate from a New England university. His parents live in Tehran, and he’s been following the events of the last several days very closely
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I believe the current leadership crisis stems from a serious family dispute between the two major houses of the Islamic Republic power elite. Ahamdi Nejad is the front for the Khamenei, the head of one “house”, and Musavi is the front for Rafsanjani the head of the other house. They all invoke the name of their “Grandfather”, aka Khomeini, to score points. In their unflinching antagonism to each other they have inevitably, and possibly unintentionally, have awaken the same giant, that is the massive aspiration of a nation still yearning for freedom three decades after she brought them to power to deliver it. The law of unintended consequences however may play a havoc on both of these houses, bringing them down, and building a new and democratic one.
Ala Khaki
Iranian poet in exile
Amherst, NH