To go by the U.S. corporate news everyone in Iran is busy twittering their hatred of the mullahs and their love for America. Nothing could be further from the truth. Out of the 71 million people in Iran about 13,000 are on Twitter. To say they represent a rare and privileged demographic is akin to opining that the Pope is Catholic.
Yes,the Iranians desperately want reform. Like all political systems where the fulcrums of power are static theirs is stifled by corruption. And like every backward patriarchy in the world women are dying to be heard and killed for singing. We just can't (won't) hear them in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Did Ahmadinejad really win? No one really knows -- even in Iran. But it's ludicrous to think Mousavi intends to dismantle the system, unseat the mullahs and free the Persian women.
"There's a little bit of an analogy back to 2000, the Florida vote, and Al Gore taking it all the way to the Supreme Court, and finally accepting the Supreme Court's judgment to the disappointment of many who didn't want George W. Bush to be president at the time. It's not a completely fair analogy. The whole thing in 2000 was that, well, we have to accept the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court has obviously made a political decision and not a legal decision. But they made it to preserve the stability of the United States, the national interest of the United States. That's an argument I think that Khamenei and his supporters will make to the opposition."--Hooman Majd, Iranian-American journalist and former writer for Prime Minister, Khatami
NeoCon Reality Check
"This is not a rejection of the Revolution"--Mir Hossein Mousavi
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