Iran's democratic genie is out of the bottle

The Times UK ^ | June 12, 2009 | Martin Fletcher

[The FIGHTIN Illini]

Good One!!!

[don-o]

Iran’s conservatives are left wingers

Would you care to expound? Please do, because I admit to not being fully informed about the Iranian political landscape. It would be nice to hear from someone who knows.

[dr_who]

For a revolution, this doesn’t sound very well organized. Sounds more like a massive riot, and the regime will treat it as such. The mullahs were probably expecting this reaction and probably planned the mass arrests (and most likely worse) ahead of the so-called election results. All the protesters can do is burn trash cans because they aren’t going to get any help from outside the country and their leadership is probably either under arrest or divided. When the regime starts purges and mass persecution of innocents, the world isn’t going to do shit.

[G8 Diplomat]

The “Green Revolution” is in full swing.

Good pics of the protests here: http://tehranlive.org/2009/06/14/iranian-protest-election-results-2/

[Terpfen]

Mousavi is merely slightly less confrontational than Ahmanutjob. He also has the bonus (in our eyes, not the mullahs’ eyes) of not being involved with the hostage crisis... that we know of.

Beyond that, to say the genie of freedom is out of the bottle in Iran is absurd.

[potlatch]

The old 'shell game'

[Marine_Uncle]

"The Genocide of Islam. Has a nice ring to it."
Well versed Fred.
"Axe the mullahs."
Sounds like a reasonable outcome as well LW.
Now if a few million of the citizens could actually catch on to the true origins of Islam, the 350th black stone that stayed in the prophet's dad's little prayer mound etc., and the true original meanings of Allah, etc., they would all go berserk and take out everything associated with the cult, and cry out for a true westernized democracy for starters.
Off course the Russians would shit themselves. And zero would be off the hook. But so be it.