Wanna understand green revolution, the players

AnnInLa

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Mon Jun-15-09 04:56 PM
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Wanna understand green revolution, the players

the players, who's connected to whom, who are the elites, who are the revolutionaries, what went down in the past few weeks? here is a great Article in the Asia Times:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF16Ak02.html

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pinto

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Mon Jun-15-09 05:09 PM
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1. Great article. I learned more about Iranian politics in this one read than

in all the reports from the European / North American media.

I think that is one of the great failures of media today - lots of instantaneous events, little substantive background for the events.

Thanks for the post.

K & R

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AnnInLa

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Mon Jun-15-09 05:11 PM
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2. Yes, I did too

I'm ashamed to say that I did not understand the political workings in Iran....Europeans are far ahead of us in knowing what is going on in the whole world. We know nothing.

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Kaleko

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Mon Jun-15-09 06:04 PM
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3. Really, this is a must-read.

Thanks for posting a report that has the ring of well-informed truth.

An appetizer quote from The meaning of the Tehran spring:

A 29-year-old female journalist working in a moderately conservative Tehran newspaper spelled it out for Radio Free Europe: "Coup means that right now they're beating people in the streets. A coup means they didn't even count people's votes. They announced the results without opening the ballot boxes. It was sent as a circular to the state television, which announced it. Is it so difficult for the world to understand this?"

The trillion-dollar-question regarding this new "revolutionary" situation is that as things stand, no pacifying solution can be found within the institutional framework of the Islamic Republic. In a nutshell, Ahmadinejad has made his power play against Mousavi and Rafsanjani. The Supreme Leader fully supported him. Mousavi and Rafsanjani, plus Khatami, need an urgent counterpunch. And their only possible play is to go after Khamenei.

More at http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KF16Ak02.html

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Kaleko

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Mon Jun-15-09 06:34 PM
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4. Kick

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AnnInLa

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Mon Jun-15-09 07:00 PM
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5. kick....educate yourselves, lol!!

It's only 2 pages long, and very informative.

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muriel_volestrangler

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Tue Jun-16-09 02:39 AM
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6. Good article - a lot of information there

that just appears occasionally in bits and pieces elsewhere.

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bananas

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Tue Jun-16-09 04:03 AM
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7. k&r nt

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