Just a reminder that now would be a good time to pray for the people of Iran:
I testify with confidence that this is the most authentic, grassroots and beautiful movement from the people, by the people and for the people.
– An Iranian student, quoted in The Jerusalem Post
The protesters number in the millions. Are we seeing a revolution, or the prelude to Iran’s Tiananmen Square? I lean toward the former, but believe Iran will try to implement the latter.
The reason why Iran won’t succeed, IMO, is because these aren’t just students protesting, as happened in China. This is far more widespread. In theory, it can be crushed—but at the cost of so many lives that I believe Iran wouldn’t be able to survive very long afterwards.
It also appears the protests are no longer so much about the presidential “election” in Iran as it is about protesting the Ayatollah himself (which means they’re protesting the theocracy of Iran, not just this one election).
Shifting…President Um sits on his hands, silent and waiting. Voting “present” once more. Lacking backbone. He assures Iran that he will have a dialogue with whomever wins the election, not realizing in his messianic delusion that if the Mullahs win after THIS type of behavior—when they have no problem shafting their own people—only an idiot could trust anything they say to The Great Satan; and if the Mullahs lose, President Omighty won’t have backed the people of Iran either. Thus, the coward on Pennsylvania Avenue puts us in a lose/lose situation once again.
But boy he sure does have a pretty mouth teleprompter.
