This uprising was never about the election results, or Mousavi.
The mullahs’ theft of the election (for Ahmadinejad) was only the catalyst that ignited a much larger, deeper, and long-simmering craving for freedom by the Iranian people.
Yes, and the fact that they have democracies on each side of them (thank you G. W. Bush) as (however flawed) models certainly played a role.