We hear a lot these days from cloaked IRI agents on this site about how the Green Movement should remain pure to what they claim to be its roots. They use such terms as “latter day Greens” or “Dark Greens” (see comments on this thread ). Do you know why they are in overdrive mode with these claims? I’ll explain the reason why.
If you recall the events leading to the 1979 revolution, you would remember that they started by various fragmented leftists groups. They had no unity, or unity of purpose for that matter. As time went by, these groups were joined by various other opposition groups, including religious groups and nationalist-religious groups such as “jebheye melli”. More importantly, they were joined by foreign based regime opponents and organizers such as “Ehya confederation” (which, ironically, come of these Iranian.com commenters belonged to at the time), and Khomeini’s organization itself.
The 1979 revolution did not gain any momentum until there was this unity, which strengthened and shaped the movement and caused its evolution from a disorganized, amorphous protest movement to a well organized, powerful movement that brought down a powerful regime.
Today’s Green Movement is no different from the nascent stages of the 1979 revolution. It’s a disorganized, leaderless movement that is in need of logistics, organization and unity with other opposition groups, including the ones outside of the Iran so that it can get anywhere. Unfortunately for them, the IRI is also well aware of this fact. So, what they are doing through their well oiled propaganda machine and their agents is to try to prevent what took place in 1979 from taking place now. They are trying to prevent various opposition forces, especially those outside of Iran which can provide financial and logistical support, from coming together and forming a unified front against the regime. They are afraid of opposition unity. That is why you see them arguing the ludicrous notion that the Green Movement is some sort of an exclusive club which no one should be allowed to get in.
The Green Movement is not exclusive and does not belong to any specific group. It’s a collective uprising that has resulted from thirty years of IRI tyranny. In fact, in needs other groups’ help to succeed. It needs unity and support. Any attempt to isolate it and pigeonhole it into being the exclusive domain of some group or ideology would play right into the hands of the IRI, which essentially has the same goal for various reasons, some of which I mention above.
So, next time you see one of these cloaked IRI operatives talking about the “purity” of the Green Movement and how no one else should be in the “Green Club” other the ones that they approve of, know where they are coming from and whose agenda they are trying to advance.
