Anyone who tells you that they know how the current situation in Iran will play out has no idea what they're talking about, but no matter what happens there have already been a number of images that can only be considered iconic from the week of protests. The Boston Globe's Big Picture blog has an excellent collection of photos here.
Monday, June 22, 2009
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Related:
http://vator.tv/news/show/2009-06-20-with-iran-on-razors-edge-fark-takes-sides
Here's the problem. The city of Tehran is pretty liberalized. But go out into the country and there is fealty toward the SUPREME LEADER. So all of the "media people" assume that the majority is in Tehr ...
UGH.
I don't have time to do this. It all goes back to the ancient philosophical question: IS THERE A NORM?
AND? My new iPhone has STILL not SHIPPED.
Nope. Check out the protests in Shiraz and Rashd (the latter may be misspelled, but as my grandmother is from there I have to right to spell it as I please. It's like black folks using the n-word, right?). Yes, there is a more deep-rooted religiosity in the more rural areas, but you'd be mistaken to assume this is a case of the wants of the capital being the thrust of the demonstration.
And as for the iPhone, have you tried contacting the store manager?
Shiraz no longer growing in Shiraz is one of the great crimes of Iran.
Exactly. Not to mention the nearly undisputed fact that the votes were rigged, or more likely ignored altogether in favor of God's Holy Pronouncement that the wrong guy won. This thing wouldn't have had the momentum it still has if it was just a bunch of liberalized middle-class Tehranians (is that a word?) twittering a revolution out of thin air.
Don't get me started on the fucking Australians.
What CAN'T you do?
Amazing photos. Analysis of the vote indicates either a giant shift of support toward the conservatives, or massive fraud. I know which one I'm leaning toward. F*ckers couldn't even steal an election convincingly.
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I don't know, Tiananmen, man. I watched that day and night, 2 million people on the street for weeks and now most kids over there have never heard of it. I agree that admitting your election was full of errors would be a fatal occurrence in most states but this (protest+clampdown) is often how bad states get worse. Not protecting your citizens from militias is pretty egregious, too. But I can't make any judgment about how far G.W.Ahmedinejad and his backers are willing to go. I can't see how they possibly can sweep this under the rug but it has happened before. China. Burma. Mexico '68, Paris '61, DC '32...
I mean, isn't focusing on the telegenic images both overly West-centric and overly media-centric? Sure, it seems to me that even what state tv is admitting is grounds enough for revolution but I'm a Western media whore firmly planted in a particular legalistic framework. Their constitution seems pretty nearly grounds enough for revolution to me.
I hope you're right!