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The BBC reports that, according to eyewitness accounts, thousands of opposition protesters took to the streets in north Tehran on Tuesday night despite calls by their presidential candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, to stay off the streets to avoid violence.
The attempts on Tuesday by opposition presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi to call off a huge protest rally called for by his supporters in Tehran is a prudent move to avoid further bloodshed after yesterday's attacks on demonstrators by supporters of the regime. After all, Ahmadinejad's supporters had...
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, National Security Council officials on the Iran file under the Bush Administration (who later publicly broke with and denounced its policies) argue on Politico.com that "the shock of the 'Iran experts' [in the U.S.] over Friday's [election] results is entirely self-generated, based...
Despite Iran's authorities' agreement to recount disputed votes in the presidential election, the main opposition candidate, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, rejected the offer, reiterating his demand for a fresh election, according to CNN. Looks likely that the rival demonstrations planned Tuesday night by supporters of Ahmadinejad and Mousavi will go...
A more sophisticated version of the idea that autocratic regimes can maintain power for decades would stress not just their willingness to use coercion against opponents, but also their ability to find and use safety valves that neuter forces for political unrest. Arguably, the Iranian regime itself did just that...