Everybody Stand Back

by: Natasha Chart

Mon Jun 15, 2009 at 21:27

"Better a hundred years of tyranny than one day of fitna (civil chaos)."

But most Iranians aren't Arabs, as you may know, and as they would certainly tell you if you were to demonstrate confusion on that point. More than being of a different ethnicity, their entire cultural outlook is different.

As Stephen Kinzer wrote in All The Shah's Men, of the dominant, Persian-influenced perspective of Iran's people: