ناله های پايانی مردی که شانه هايش توان اين بار سنگين را نداشت و چشمهايش سوی ديدن فراسو را و ذهنش يارای درک بزرگی حادثه را... پايان بازی بزرگ برای مردی کوچک
It is a viewpoint of an Iranian under the name Ali from Tehran who described the speech given by Khatami quite beautifully. This really says pretty much everything of what happened to Khatami in these eight years! It is really hard to translate it into English but I try my best:
The final groans of a man whose shoulders couldn't carry that heavy weight and whose eyes couldn't see far away, and whose brain couldn't get the greatness of the event[i.e. the election of Khatami in 1997 which was a surprise with the support of almost 70% of Iranians]...the end of a huge game for a small man.
However we have to have this in our mind that Khatami is a very tolerant person. We have to admit that there is no third world country that you can shout at your president and chant at him "Shame on you!", "You didn't deserve our vote" while he is sitting just a few feet from you! and that is what the Iranian students did a few days ago! Even as some people report there were some students that shouted at him "Stupid!" and some others swore at him and didn't let him start speaking.
Anyway, the main question to be answered is what will happen to the reforms? and of course the answer is no one knows! We lost the opportunities that shouldn't have been lost, and now...?! I just don't know...
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There's a fine book (about 3 years old) written by a married American couple called "Answering Only To God." Here's a URL to an interview with them- You will have to cut and paste it-
http://www.payvand.com/news/03/jul/1077.html
I love this book! It really explains why Khatami was a failure, and how much his time resembled the failures our own chance at top down reform had in the nineties.
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