Posted on 07/20/2009 2:49:48 AM PDT by DGHoodini
A very interesting article appeared recently indicating that the Iranian armed forces may be starting to politicize themselves as some officers were arrested for planning to attend Rafsanjani Friday sermon in uniform (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/19/iran-army-officers-arrested ). Those of you who have followed my previous posts will note that the most significant event in a revolution is when the security organs either move against or refuse to act against
Khameni and Co. are looking more and more like Hans Brinker trying to shove their fingers into a leaky dike. A couple of weeks ago it looked as if they had managed to stifle the movement but in the last week there have been increasing signs that the reform movement has adapted to the regime's tactics. There have been reports of people shouting from rooftops and windows, daring the Basij, the regime's storm troopers, to locate and punish them.
Oooops! this *was* an excerpt. Link in header.
Forget all that mystic Marxist proletarian struggle nonsense. Revolutions happen when the ruling class lose faith in their own right to govern.
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I didn't think this was allowed by muslim "clerics"??
Oh, and you misspelled "dykes"!
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