I don't know for sure, but think Ahmadinejad actually got the most votes. Maybe not enough to clear the 50% hurdle requiring a runoff next week.

Ballot boxes were stuffed to get him back in and the election finished.

Mousavi is no angel.

But think the Communist Revolution even after the Czar had made concessions allowing a parliament or the Boston Tea Party.

Those protesting at their core are mostly educated kids in North Tehran. But this is where Revolutions start.

For a few weeks Iranians got a taste of Freedom. The Green Revolution was going to take place after their election, and years of increasing anxiety and tension would be over.

An illusion. But it's dangerous to take away dreams from people so quickly.

This may be the tipping point for the 30 years Islamic Revolution. No one argue it's going as planned.

Iran has been tragically mismanaged for too long. A small vanguard of Westernized Iranian students are openly confronting their masters.

It starts this way.


Mike



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Let us pray it's more like the Boston Tea Party than French Revolution.
I am hoping that after all is said and done, more will be done, this time, than said.
We can learn from these folks.

The obviously rigged elections in the U.S. are an insult, are we next?

Great links here and great thread.

You can't stick this one on America, Mossad or anywhere else. Iran has always had a strong educational culture, theyw ill understand how other countried live and what freedoms mean, especially with their relatives living in other countries e.g. America, GB, France etc.

They have a lot of young free thinkers and this is their reaction to the result. I think this is the real deal.

GO IRANIANS

I have roomed with and know allot of young Iranians, these kids are alright...

Good for them, it's about time, get rid of that Freak in Charge... more embarrassing than even Bush, he even looks scary so does the Ayatollah, these kids don't need this non sense, they are cultured, have educations... like to enjoy life... Iranians aren't backwards mainly, not to any higher degree than any other 1st world nation...

They simply don't deserve this over their heads, war, war, threat of war... persecution...

Best of luck... good job, perhaps we have something to learn from you in the West after all... like how to stand up straight and walk with pride.

Ya know if this fails its gonna drive the hardliners into being even more hard line. It will not be pretty.

Originally posted by grover
Ya know if this fails its gonna drive the hardliners into being even more hard line. It will not be pretty.

Totally agree. That is why this revolt CANNOT fail. It absolutely CANNOT. This is their last stand. The 300. This it it.

The rest of the world can chose to stand by and watch or to stand with them.

As an American citizen who does not take his freedoms lightly I stand with them. NOTHING can make you appreciate freedom like seeing people dying unarmed fighting for theirs.

I did two tours in Iraq and would GLADLY in a HEARTBEAT jump on the first transport to Tehran and jump out.

Give me a ride and a parachute and I am good to go.

I will even bring my own weapons.

Students in revolt = Tianamen Square.
The students will have minimal impact other than be supressed.The student movement in China from 20 years ago is completely unknown by the new generations of students there.

The change in Iran (if thats what all of them truly want, remember it's their choice, not ours) would need to come from all levels of Iranian society to be effective. This would be difficult as that would require these different social facets campaign that Sharia law is not the correct letters for governing in IRAN. So rebel against their faith?

The supreme leader is the Ayotollah, not the president, The clerics sanction the candidates that run, therefore it didnt really matter who got in, the power base is still the same. All Iranians rebelling against Sharia? This will not be a likely outcome.



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