The Reluctant Revolutionary
November 8, 2023
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<p>To read this essay and my other essays, articles and interviews, please subscribe at <a href="https://khmezek.substack.com/" rel="noopener noreferer" target="_blank">https://khmezek.substack.com/</a></p>
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AN IRANIAN STUDENT'S HARROWING ADVENTURES IN MIDDLE AMERICA DURING THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION AND WHAT IT MEANS TODAY
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<p><em>"With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion"</em></p>
<p><em>—Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in Physics</em></p>
<p>I wrote this piece after hours of interviews with Alec Moghadam. We had a great time together. He made amazing Persian dinners and we drank martinis while he told his story. Thanks, Alec, for sharing your adventures with me. Your experiences resonate powerfully with what is happening today.</p>
<p>Thousands of young, idealistic <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9174913/Portland-police-share-photos-Antifa-rioters-weapons-used-smash-Democratic-Party-HQ.html#v-7500378427771668346">revolutionaries</a> are taking to the streets of America, demanding the complete dismantling of the corrupt government institutions that have oppressed them for so long. They would do well to look at history to see how others just like them have been used as pawns, over and over, by leaders whose corrupt agendas are no different than those they depose, only sold in new packaging.</p>
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