This is what the founding fathers called mob rule, which is what happens when your gov is obviously wronging its people.
The funny part is that our government planned the Egypt revolt months ago, now the whole Middle East is going up.
The irony is that dumbed down Americans are giving up freedoms everyday and act like sheep, while 3rd worlds are protesting from the result of it……

Originally posted by Johnze
Is it really?, last time i was in Tehran it was pretty chilled out.

Last time I've been to Egypt (2 months ago) everything seemed okay aswell. ....

from what I've read, I don't trust the Iran protests as much as say Egypt. I've heard that these protests are backed by the previous ruler and so it is not a people's revolution. Also, with the amount of involvement by the CIA over the past 50 years I don't put it past the Criminals In Action to start an Iranian protest. You have to be pretty blind not to see that Iran is the enemy of U.S. and especially Israel, so there's every reason for these two countries to help out any and all protests in Iran.

For those who are stating their discontent at the Iranian protests - don't you think it's alittle two faced to encourage the Egyptian people to revolt on one hand, and on the other claim the Iranian revolts are 'fake' and they are sponsored by a foreign source?

I mean, what is the reason NOT to revolt against the government in Iran? Execution of homosexuals, vile aggression towards women, public stoning, rigged elections, crazy theocracy, public executions of minors and little children by all means - hanging, stoning, shot to the head, burried alive - what not.

For every single reason an Egyptian person has to revolt, an Iranian has 10.

Sometimes it seems in this era of 'social networks protests' and twitter-lutions, we forget that this has all happened before. People have always, from time to time, got pissed at the folks in charge and broke a few windows, burned a chariot or wagon or camel or car or whatever. Human history is chock full of these 'people power' movements.

The only problem with 'people power' is that these power-to-the -people people are different people when given power themselves. Inevitably from the idealistic masses some NEW corrupt nutjob/system/status quo will arise to eventually be as bad or worse than what he/they once railed and protested against.

Back in the late 60's(yeah, THOSE were some days, eh?) the window-breaking 'revolutionaries' used to have a saying: "Without an aftermath plan, it ain't a revolution, it's an excuse to miss work."

Then it was burn, baby, burn!.....now it's tweet, baby, tweet!

Same mob mentality, band-wagon jumping BS that always dooms mankind to repeat the same bloody mistakes.

Leadership, unity, inclusion of all--even those without a facebook page--- and an aftermath plan.

That's all that will work.

Anything else is just to break boredom and break windows. Riots in revolutions clothing.

If i am not mistaken, wasn't the last Iranian election a farce? a scam? wasn't one of the other candidates forced to resign due to threats or something like that? Then when the people revolted against that the Iranians decided to use deadly force on the protesters there?

Good job on the Iranian citizens in following Egypt's footsteps. Remember, it wasn't too long ago that Iran went through a similar uprising.... what will happen in the end for them? I dont know, I am just hoping for the best.