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Originally Posted by goldorak
The West as always has misconceptions about the nature of these violent uprisings. It misinterpretated the Tiananmen protest and it is misinterpreting the Iran protest. People in Iran are protesting not for a democratic president, but for an election that has been presumably "stolen" by Ahmadinejad. Nothing more, nothing less.
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The people percieve that they have been lied to ... they are in contact with each other having coffee in cafes, univercities, twitter, you tube etc.
They talk at work, they talk among family members, the talk in the seven times a day to worship their God.
They, meaning the people of Iran, are generating a spirit among each other, a spirit that does not trust the news the government is putting out nor the head man in charge of their morale fiber.
They are mad and they are willing to die or be arrested for protesting the election results announced two hours after the polls closed.
This son of the supreme leader (Mojtaba Khamenei) is the one to worry about if you are Iranian that is:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/22/mojtaba-khamenei-iran-protest