I hope the Iranian people use their chance this time to stay strong behind their new president. I hope they don’t mess it up again, like they did in 1979 (by blindly backing the mullahs) and in 2005 (by not granting enough support to Khatami).
Bertold Brecht paraphrased the tragedy of repeated failures in history by writing:
The great Carthage fought three wars against the Romans: It was still mighty after the first war, it was still habitable after the second war, it did not existed any more after the third war.

Take Care/ghazal