Robin Wright wrote a great article regarding the current demographic of Iran:
July 27, 2015
By Robin Wright
...Iran's revolutionaries are aging. (click here) Most are in their late fifties, sixties and seventies. The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, turned seventy-six this month. More than sixty percent of Iran's eighty million people are under the age of thirty-five. A baby-boom generation, born after the revolution, doesn't share all of its' priorities.
"It's a tsunami," Said Rahmani, the CEO of Sarava, Iran's first venture-capital fund, told me. "This generation is worldly. They're educated. They work. They have spending power. They're not dependent on anyone. They have a different range of thinking....
Read the entire article. Young Iranians are capitalists. Don't read too much into that, except, Iranians are learned and are sophisticated. The young Iranians are very different than the previous generations. They understand human rights abuses and don't want the shadow of nuclear military power.
July 27, 2015
By Robin Wright
...Iran's revolutionaries are aging. (click here) Most are in their late fifties, sixties and seventies. The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, turned seventy-six this month. More than sixty percent of Iran's eighty million people are under the age of thirty-five. A baby-boom generation, born after the revolution, doesn't share all of its' priorities.
"It's a tsunami," Said Rahmani, the CEO of Sarava, Iran's first venture-capital fund, told me. "This generation is worldly. They're educated. They work. They have spending power. They're not dependent on anyone. They have a different range of thinking....
Read the entire article. Young Iranians are capitalists. Don't read too much into that, except, Iranians are learned and are sophisticated. The young Iranians are very different than the previous generations. They understand human rights abuses and don't want the shadow of nuclear military power.
