You Say You Want a Revolution
December 29th, 2009 - 3:09 pm
This is no way to spend a day of vacation, but I can’t stop watching these protest videos from Iran. Murder videos, really.
It’s hard to believe these protests have been going on for six months already. Years ago, when this blog was young and fresh, and the students of Iran began to riot… well, I think we all got our hopes up. And it’s always been the same old story — government does something grossly stupid, people revolt, revolt gets suppressed, people go back to work.
But this time has been different. You just have to wonder if the results will be any different.
Mr. Green, if you would include the NAME of the site where the videos are from it would be helpful to the ones of us who run it! Thank you.
Best of luck to the Iranian protesters. May you succeed against the mullahocracy.
I too wonder if this time will be different or is it just wishful thinking. As Iran draws closer to having nukes of its’ own Israel will be forced to act or invite its’ own destruction. Do the protesters also sense the forboding future as well? There is plenty wrong internally in Iran and the people of Iran deserve better but will it be enough to stop the Mullahs headlong rush to thier own end of the world vision of the new Caliphate.
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but I’m also afraid to get my hopes up. It takes a lot to overthrow a government. Particularly this one where the ruling class will not be able to flee so easily as the Shah’s government did.
Many will die. There will be atrocities.
Correct me please: – Isn’t a big part of this ‘protest’ essentially internecine? Some of the info I’ve seen clarifies that the recently deceased (murdered?) Mullah many of the ‘reformers’ backed and say should have won the rigged election was no lover of US, Zion, or the West. To quote from Samsonshrugged –
“Meanwhile, Iran’s political problems keep growing: tens of thousands of students and other pro-reform protesters clashed with Iranian police. To count on the reformers would be unwise, because Iranian politics is too entangled and could develop either way: the regime has successfully quelled student movements several times in past decades; the student protesters include both pro-American liberals and fierce Ahmadinejad-type nationalists who reject the ayatollahs but welcome the bomb; and Mousawi and Rafsanjani are staunchly pro-nuclear.
“If Iran gets the bomb, the reformists will become dangerous: faced with imminent loss of power, the nuclear mullahs might go berserk, and would be liable to do anything, from passing the bomb to Syria or terrorists to bombing Israel.”