In the establishment U.S. media, perhaps the least reported (as in most heavily "censored") foreign story of 2009 turned on the question: What do Iran‘s 70 million citizens really want?
But what was so intriguing about the suppression of this single question was that many figures on the liberal – left in the States (and elsewhere) thought they had the right to answer it on behalf of Iran‘s people, and to ignore what a majority of Iranians themselves believe. In the name of "peace" and especially "democracy," they cast aside majority opinion inside Iran for something more palatable to political tastes in the great metropolitan centers of the West.
For a brief analysis of this interference in the lives of Iran‘s 70 million citizens, see:
"Chutzpah, Inc.: ‘The Brave People of Iran‘ (versus the Disappeared People of Palestine, Honduras, Afghanistan, Etc.)"
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
ZNet, February 20, 2010
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