Is Mousavi willing to risk "slaughter" in the streets?
Foreign Policy / Karim Sajvadpour
19-Jun-2009 (one comment)

Mousavi is not Khomeini, and Khamenei is not the Shah. Meaning, Khomeini would not hesitate to lead his followers to "martyrdom", and the Shah did not have the stomach for mass bloodshed. This time the religious zealots are the ones holding power.The anger and the rage and sense of injustice people feel will not subside anytime soon, but if Mousavi concedes defeat he will demoralize millions of people. At the moment the demonstrations really have no other leadership. It's become a symbiotic relationship, Mousavi feeds off people's support, and the popular support allows Mousavi the political capital to remain defiant. So Mousavi truly has some agonizing decisions to make.

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Not '79; Mousavi no Khomeini, Khamenei no Shah

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Fri Jun 19, 2009 08:03 PM PDT

This link is the second part of an interview of Carnegie Endowment for Peace Iran Analyst Sadjvadpour by Foregin Policy's editor. It is relatively short but it's linked at the beginning to the longer one from yesterday, 'Parsing Iran's 'Momentous' Internal Drama", and the two of them together are excellent.


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