Iran: Green Solidarity with (Some) Arabs
Mrzine / Yoshie Furuhashi
16-Feb-2011

Critics of the Islamic Republic of Iran held a protest on 25 Bahman 1389 (14 February 2011).  The protest turnout today -- far from negligible given the well known severe limits to anti-systemic dissent imposed by the state -- apparently failed to meet the expectations of some of its supporters, so one such individual went to the trouble of creating and uploading a fake protest video onto YouTube, adding a voiceover chant of "Mubarak, Ben Ali, Nobat-e Seyyed Ali!" [Mubarak, Ben Ali, now Seyyed Ali's (i.e. Khamenei's) turn!] to a video of the Green Wave at its height in 2009

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