From: ahriman@wam.umd.edu (Salman Rushdie)
Subject: Re: AIDS in Iran
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:27:20 GMT

In article <sehari.724491107@class1.iastate.edu> sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
>
>Hey man, this is nothing new.  Even in United States Single tax rate is higher
>than married people.  The same way that they live right now they can continue
>to live, that is the girl could stay with her parents and the boy with his

First of all the US' single tax rate is not 90% and they don't take away your
drivers lisence if you don't get married. No comparison there I'm affraid, so
don't even try it. Secondly where do you suggest they do it with the living 
arrangements that you have suggested. Frankly from your ideas i can see that 
an individuals privacy means nothing to you, which is one of the basic policies
of IRI. Once in Iran a guy stopped me and asked me why I was wearing short 
sleaves under my jacket. I wanted to ask the SOB how come he was "koon lokht" 
under his pants and underware, but then I remembered the  other policy that IRI 
is very strict about and that is the lack of freedom of speach.

>
>It is good to live in a villa in south of France if you can afford it,
>otherwise you should do with a small shared apartment.  That's why I am saying
>that expectation are too high.
>
No one said anything about villas in south of France (shoolooghesh nakon).
An old Iranian saying goes "chahr divari ekhtiyari". Lets start with a
simple chahar divari, villa geroyeh risheh akhoonda va Swiss bank accountashoon.

>Moreover, I believe the government is doing what it can to improve the
>economy.  As a result, the economy has highly improved since the end of war.
>Now if you have some suggestion on how to improve the economy even faster
>let everyone know, so everyone can discuss it on the newsgroup.  However,
>I do not think the right solution is to tell everyone to stay single until
>they can afford a villa in north of Iran!  I do not think making a Yugoslavia
>or a Lebanon out of our mother land could improve things, either.
>
>                          With highest regards,
>                               Babak   Sehari.
>
>-- 

The economic disaster that has taken place in post revolution Iran is mind 
boggling. To compare to the recession in the US is retarded. And if you want
my suggestion for improvements, first and formost we have to get rid of the 
akhoonds. That right there is half the solution. Now Mr. Sehari do you have
any suggestions? Or do you believe that while are country is in economic
devastation, it is right for the government to offer millions of dollars to
any schmuck that murders Salman Rushdie. Finally, how you have managed to link
this discussion to Lebanon and Yugoslavia beats me. I had no idea that the 
reason for all the unrest in said countries was due to the large number of
"cheshm sefid" kids over 21 that refused to get married because they could not
afford it. And to think that all this time I thought the root of the problems 
were ethnic differences. Silly me.

-- 
Salman Rushdie

"And I brought unto thee these Satanic Verses to quench thy thurst for truth in the form of fantacy. So go forth and live free."