<The majority of those souls are not interested in a mullah ruled theocracy. Not in the least>

its true what you all are saying, but dont throw the baby out with the bath water. Just bear in mind that many of these young people are DEEPLY religious - in the true sense of the word - Allah Ahkbar - God is great - was there rallying call at night on the roof tops, before they faced possible death in the morning, marching for freedom.

And get this, the biggest single threat to Amerdinjad and the supreme leader is the most senior holy man of all in Iran - more senior in Islam actuly than the Supreme leader - Rafsanjani. He is head of the "assembly of experts" who is the highest group of mullahs in Iran and they have the power to remove the Supreme leader.

They are all Mullah's, holy men, and the majority of them are behind Rafsanjani and oppose whats going on and very much oppose Amerdinjad. He is also a billionaire. So Rafsanjani also represents the desire to run economics sensibly Amerdinjad has made a right mess of there econmy. Amerdinjad principly represents the army and the security forces, but IS backed by the supreme leader and many of the conservative Mullahs clerics, and conservtive politicans.

So its not really a split between Islam vs the youth, its a split between progressive reformist politicans (mousavi) progessive Mullahs (Rafsanjani and most of the assembly of experts), and the young people. On the other side you have idiot brain Amerdinjad, the supreme leader and some of the as you correctly call them dionosaur Mullahs and clerics, and the Army.

Even though Amerdinjad has temporaily crushed this there is a crack right down Iranian society that is like an earthquake and it aint going to go away, pretty sure about that.

If they dont win on this "wave" of the 2012 energy swing, they will surely sweep the dinosaurs away on the next even bigger wave !

The sort of Islam the young people will like will be things like this - sufi. -

www.youtube.com/watch

there also geting into stuff like hip hop, rap and all the rest of it. Some of them got Disel jeans and all that kind of thing. In fact in parts of Tehran it seems like some of the young are having an almost 1960's cultural revolution, middle eastern styles, they have orgies and stuff. But many are still very deeply spirtual, deeply beliving in God.

My god with Persian woman the way the are Im thinking i need to get over there !

I think there is a vertible treasure trove of culture under the surface of Iran waiting to blossom in the 2012 sun, OMG how i welcome its rays aginst the green flags of hope there.

So sad that many have to be tortured, beaten, hit with axes and killed to achive that, but i guess some things are worth fighting for, some things are worth dieing for.

Isnt that a line from the Matrix ?........................................