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June 16, 2009 - 4:17 am - by Richard Fernandez
twobyfour
2009-06-16 18:52:33

Doug/44

Well, in this case:

Mousavi insisted on Tuesday that he would “protect” his supporters’ votes “at all cost, even if I am at risk.”

Shouting from a car roof to a roaring crowd of supporters, he declared: “The pillars of the revolution have been shaken… We must not be silent.”

Notice the comment about pillars of revolution. He means the one that happened and established itself in 1979, and in which he participated.

If the counter-mullah-revolution spreads to other cities (as it seems it does), if part of the IRGC switches sides (rumor has it that so far 14 commanders were in negotiations with army elements about that, Khamenei got a whiff and they are detained, but the question is if they were only the more in-your-face participants of a trend) and if the Mousavi supporters have stamina and guts not to back down…

The Basij and Hezboys use motorcycles to attack the protesters. How long it would take for someone getting an idea to use fishing line or few to transverse the street?

I know, ifs…