Me importing US values into Iran?.....Me? Are you serious? How am I importing that, do I own a tv station? Do I host a radio show? What kind of accusation is that? I'm expressing my opinion in a forum with a thread about Iran protests...it's a discussion and my opinion not the tool of the US Imperialist government!! I don't condone what the Trump administration is doing against Iran....I only lament how Iran has painted itself into a corner by bad policy and bad policymakers. As an iranian living out of the reach of the thugs in Iran I can say that......I'm sure many Iranians inside Iran think like me.....
The problem with Iranians have always been that they are easy to manipulate....they listen to anybody spouting lies without doing any research to find out if that person is telling the truth. Just like in 1953 with Mossadegh, and then again with 1979 when we had a chance to have a real democracy and they sold us Islamic republic...As far as these protests are concerned, it's not the work of a foreign gov, it is the result of the people being under pressure, the pressure caused by a dysfunctional government. It is impossible for foreign agents to forement unrest in multiple cities at the same time, so most of these uprising are purely organic and not caused by outside agitators....these people are Iranians and they have a right to protests the corruption and mismanagement of the outdated and crazy complicated system we call the Iranian government. Any government that is elected that does not have the power to control policy and run the government is a not a real government......the Guardian council, the Judiciary, the IRGC and the Assembly of Experts not to mention the Supreme Leader that have split the centers of power in this country in so many directions that an elected government is left without any power to do anything meaningful. Don't blame the enemies for this mismanagement, the whole world works with other countries, even countries they don't like or had wars with, look at Britain and France...or France and Germany. Look at Japan and the U.S...there are many examples. The only country that I know has refused to kiss and make up in 40 years is Iran......it's childish, amateurish and incompetent policy, a policy put in to effect by people with no government experience and even less diplomatic experience....the sanctions, the economic stagnation, the enmity is all result of this backward thinking that everybody is out to get us.