Iran Awakens Yet Again
NYT/Globalist / Roger Cohen
10-Jun-2009 (2 comments)

TEHRAN — They’re calling it the “green tsunami,” a transformative wave unfurling down the broad avenues of the Iranian capital. Call it what you will, but the city is agog at the campaign of Mir Hussein Moussavi, the reformist candidate seeking to unseat President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 10th post-revolution election. Iran, its internal fissures exposed as never before, is teetering again on the brink of change. For months now, I’ve been urging another look at Iran, beyond dangerous demonization of it as a totalitarian state. Seldom has the country looked less like one than in these giddy June days.

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by capt_ayhab on Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:37 PM PDT

My exact sentiments. Iran's revolt was unlike any others that history has recorded. We did not rise for food, but for liberty and human dignity.

Such a sad state when the oppositions in 1979 did not have a leader. God only knows that  Iran could have become a paradise on earth.

 

-YT


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What a shame for all real Freedom lovers!

by Depressed (not verified) on Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:58 AM PDT

A real shame that the so called free world want to see a Chinese version in Iran (lots of trade combined with domestic repression) ...

well if people revolted to change Iran into another China, then we were much better off and surely on our way to become a second China under the Shah!

Yet the Shah himself always wanted to compare Iran to South Korea and Japan and not to China!

btw, I thought we revolted in Iran mainly and in the first place to have political freedom, free press, freedom of speech, didn't we? am I mistaken?


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