Iran's War on it's own Young

As Iran Presses Its Ambitions, Its Young See Theirs Denied
Lack of Economic Opportunity Leads Many to Drugs

By Karl VickWashington Post Foreign ServiceFriday, April 21, 2006; Page A01

SHAFT, Iran -- The question that preoccupies most of Iran lay coiled in the sullen stare of Abbas Kayhan, 25 years old and stuck behind the counter of his father's corner store. It pulled his heavy brow even lower and traveled down a forearm that shuddered in anger with each word.

"But what about me?" the young man demanded, smack in the colorless center of a generation whose complaints have driven Iranian politics for more than a decade, with no satisfaction in sight.Stories "You people, you have got a very good life in the U.S. What is this place?" He glanced down the main street of a town called Shaft, where young men with gelled hair and no jobs sauntered at aimless angles. "Everything is miserable."

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