I was initially supporting “the Green Movement” back in 2009. Then saw the ‘reformists’ within the Islamic Regime were actively hijacking the so-called Movement to reform something that cannot be ‘reformed’. I stopped supporting, and said (on FR too) that those outside the Reformists grp should stop too.
The Islamic Reformists were against any Secular non-Islamic group; they were even against traditional pre-Khomeini flags of Iran, and whoever carried those flags in public protests. These Islamic reformists were & still are very much part of the Islamic Regime; they just want more freedom.
In sum, whoever was aiding the Green movement did an extremely bad job of it. They only contributed to jigging up a lot of gullible & innocent people, who ended up either killed and or tortured.
Thank you! I agree with you. The same thing has happened over and over since, and you see the mayhem that resulted.
IMHO, these color revolutions are usually the spawn of the National Endowment for Democracy. That outfit could be justified back in the days of the Iron Curtain when the Soviets were destabilizing our Hemisphere. But, like most bureaucracies, they now just self perpetuate and are causing all kinds of mischief all over the globe.