June 27, 2009 at 12:05 am
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Over the past few months, much of my time has been spent in watching this new generation. Moving from neighborhood to neighborhood, from disco to disco, an explorer out of my depth, I have tried to learn the patterns, the old/new tribal rites. In the present article, I have focused on one club and one tight-knit group which seem to sum up the experience as a whole. Artist James McMullan also spent many hours observing this development, but his paintings, reproduced here, are less specific; although they deal with the same locations and group, they are generalized images of these Saturday night rituals. Everything described in this article is factual and was either witnessed by me or told to me directly by the people involved. Only the names of the main characters have been changed.
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As the Islamic Republic of Iran nears its thirtieth anniversary, the political elites in Tehran are working hard to maintain an appearance of continuity rather than change. But as the political elites of Iran change, the Islamic Republic is also experiencing a metamorphosis of its own. One indication of this change is the transformation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) into a business conglomerate independent of state regulation. The Islamic Republic, once governed by the Shiite clergy and guarded by the IRGC, is developing into an economy dominated by the military. Moreover, the IRGC's close involvement in the Iranian economy makes sanctions against Tehran tricky for the United States and European Union (EU) to implement in their quest to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program.
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