Archive for June 2009
Why does Iran have such a young population? – By Caroline Berson – Slate Magazine
Iran
After the 1979 Revolution, Khomeini asked his population to procreate and made contraceptives limited…the result? A majority of a nation that is under 30 and too young to remember the revolution and it’s reasons.
As I watch the situation in Iran unfold I fear that the religious leadership in Iran is going to fight the inevitable, the inevitable being a young nation thirsty for modernization.
