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Sigh (Iran Edition)

This is all so unbelievably depressing:

A Fear Of Bank Runs In Iran?

Credit where it is due: When he is not busy being obsessed with the nature of Trig Palin’s matrilineal line, Andrew Sullivan can pen an interesting blog post.

The Obama Administration May Still Not Be Saying Much About Iran . . .

But it is nice to see that others are speaking out:

Shorter Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

“If the families of opponents of the Islamic regime in Iran get harassed and imprisoned, that is the fault of the opponents in question for speaking out against the regime, and not a moral failing that we can lay at the feet of the regime. Also, Iranian dissidents are traitors.”

Foreign Policy Crises

They can sneak up on the leadership class of any particular country in very unexpected ways.

“The Party Of The Wind”

Those who want proof that Iranians are no longer afraid of the regime that has sought to tyrannize them need only examine Iason Athanasiadis’s excellent article to find out that Iran may well have crossed a threshold:

About Time

After months and months of saying that it will not get involved in supporting the protesters in Iran, the Obama Administration . . . is getting involved in supporting the protesters in Iran:

The Latest Plot Twist In Iran

The regime is killing political dissidents, and blaming the West for the deaths. In related news, it is still possible for me to be appalled:

Some Things Are Impossible To Deny

For the Islamic regime, for example, it is impossible to deny that abuses occurred in its infamous Kahrizak prison

Iran: Moving To Another Revolution?

These kinds of predictions are perilous to make, but it is difficult not to conclude that something interesting is amiss when one reads Robin Wright’s account of the formation of an opposition manifesto:

In Iran, The Word Of The Day Is “Isolation”

We see how the regime is increasingly getting isolated from the civilized elements in Iranian society:

There Is No Head Of The Iranian Opposition Movement. And That Is A Good Thing.

Those who analyze the protests that have gripped Iran since the perpetration of voter fraud in the country oftentimes point out that while the Islamic regime has a definite leadership class, the opposition movement is relatively leaderless.

- March 18, 2010 -

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