Change coming in Iran?
In case you haven’t heard, there was a national election in Iran on Friday and Ahmadinejad was declared the winner by a landslide right after the polls closed. Then people started noticing that the results were announced before it was even possible to count all the votes. The people there have been protesting on the streets since, while the opposition leader that ran against Ahmadinejad is under house arrest. The Iranian government has been attempting to stop all news reports and images from coming out of the country, but in today’s world, that’s a tall order. Videos have made their way to the internet that shows just how big the protests are:
It will be interesting to see if this is the start of real change in Iran away from theocracy or if this is another Tienamen Square where the government just cracks down ever worse afterwards.