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[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

The New Jacobin Elite.

Barack Obama: A latter-day Camille Desmoulins? Discuss.

Also discuss if the author stopped to employ earth logic at any point while writing this.

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[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

I saw both of those! And there was recently an article in a German paper calling Ahmadinejad an 'Iranian Robespierre' or something to that effect, which I'm not sure how they figure.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

This whole trend of comparing Robespierre to all reactionaries and tyrants around the world and of every era is really growing more than just annoying. Next we're going to have a remake of Danton with an Iranian Wajda -- Mousavi-Danton? I shouldn't give them the idea, now that I think of it. >__> *shudders*

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

I actually think that Rafsanjani (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Hashemi_Rafsanjani") is more like their Danton. D: Consider the following quotes I've found about him while researching Iran-related things:

The butt of many popular jokes about his wealth (Which, might I add, was earned quite suspiciously...), his survival instincts and his vulgarity, Rafsanjani earned yet another nickname after his election failure, becoming known as “Aghassi” (literally meaning Mr. Thirtieth) inside Iran.

Mr. Rafsanjani was an agile politician who spoke like the people, not like the religious aristocracy, and knew how to cajole, amuse, lecture, threaten and sway.

The treacherous crosscurrents inside the regime are fed by the pressure from the street but date back long before many of today's protesters were born. An old photograph of Khamenei as a young seminarian shows a beardless youth in a turban who already wears thick glasses; behind them, the expression in his eyes is of a boy looking inward, lost in thought. A photograph of his fellow seminarian Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from that same period in the 1950s suggests, beneath the white turban, a Type A personality who might, in an American context, be running for class president.

"Can anyone tell me where it says in the Holy Koran that women have to make themselves look ugly?" That's former Iranian president Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, the man the media call the best hope for challenging Khameinei's hold on power, speaking in the mid-1980s, in reference to hard-right female journalists decked out in black.

Conclusion: Danton is alive and living in Iran.

...And then, just for fun, I did a search for 'Rafsanjani Danton,' and apparently I'm not the first person to think this (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/16/743347/-Iran-Analysis:-Repost-For-a-Different-Crowd):

Here's a historical reference for these two men: think of Khamenei as Robespierre and Rafsanjani as Danton from the French Revolution. Khamenei is more of an ideologue and a purist who does not hesitate to exercise brutal authority, while Rafsanjani is an indulgent who has enriched himself and his family through his access to power. Unlike the French Revolution, this is 30 years later, and Rafsanjani has managed to keep his head, so far.

D:

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

So basically Rafsanjani just needs to get himself martyred and he'll be lionized for centuries to come as a GRAND HERO OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND MANLY.

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

they need to stop doing that..>.> it's just making it all worse for Robespierre..and us..