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Most youths in the street scene are just as desperate to leave, for to become commercially successful in Iran, an artist or performer must at least have the tacit approval of the theocratic regime. One of the country's best-known rappers, Hichkas (Soroush Lashgari), started out being harshly critical of the regime, but in the past year, he has become increasingly pro-government. In one song, he scolds partygoers who stay out late and get roughed up by the religious police. "He's a total sellout," says a 26-year-old student who now listens to exiled bands like...
IRAN In 1983 Abdolkarim Soroush, a philosopher named by Khomeini to oversee the "Islamization" of Iran's universities, quit his job. Ever since, he has been a leading thinker in pushing the case for a reformed Islam and a democratic Iran, and slowly but surely the movement has gathered momentum. Today Iran's progressive Islamic thinkers are nothing less than intellectual pop stars among students in Tehran, with heady sales of books on such topics as Islamic reform and democratization...
...dishes and dispirited citizens who never saw a reason to vote--until Khatami came along. Few misunderstood the protest message of his triumph. Says Hassan, 18, a member of the generation born after Khomeini's 1979 revolution: "We want to have more freedom here in this country." Says Abdelkarim Soroush, perhaps the regime's most prominent internal critic: "The election was a referendum on liberty, justice, everything." One supporter simply gushed, "Khatami is Ayatullah Gorbachev...
More important, Abdelkarim Soroush, a leading intellectual of the anti-Shah revolution, has openly challenged the clergy's infallibility. "Religion is sacred," he said in an interview, "but the understanding and interpretation are not necessarily sacred." Religious interpretations, he said, "are like chemistry and mathematics. They are debatable." Khomeini's heirs will increasingly have to reconcile the everyday requirements of national life with the exigencies of holy law. If they also intend to be taken seriously in the community of nations, they will have to stop using violence and terror in the pursuit of Iran's interests...
...both countermen and customers are quick to point out that their rudeness is usually reserved for uncontrollably rude customers. Although Tommy says he tells all his employees not to take abuse from anyone, they are subjected to a lot of it each shift. "They're really nice people," says Soroush R. Shehabi '87 of the countermen. "Snotty kids come in here when those guys are working hard. You can understand their response--they have a dismal life...
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