June 2009
2 posts
A Quick Post-Mortem, and Something Left Out of the...
Now that the demobilization of the opposition rallies has generally occurred, we can try to make sense of what was a most chaotic event. I am not implying that anything is back to normal … let’s just say it is back to quasi-normal. 2009 will be remembered as an historic year in Iranian history, whatever happens hereafter, to join 1906, 1953, 1979, and 1997 in the annals.
The social movement...
Revolution Redux?
I’m sitting here in a lower-middle class neighborhood in Tehran right now, listening to choral chants of Allah-u Akbar outside my window. It’s been the third night that I’ve had the pleasure of doing so. There’s no need to recap here all of the events of the last 9 days. The June 9 election results were evidently manipulated to such a large degree that even supporters of Mr. Ahmadinejad were...