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...Ahmadinejad's claim that the Islamic Republic foiled an attempt at a velvet revolution, Iran's former reformist President Mohammed Khatami met with families of the detained this week. "If this poisoned propaganda and security atmosphere continues ... we must say that what happened was a velvet coup d'état against the people and the republicanism of this state," he said. Millions of Iranians may agree. For now, though, there's little they can do to change...
...hear our own voices. Around 9 p.m., we noticed some flames, and all of a sudden, four or five very large fires popped up. People were feeding them with everything from trash, traffic cones, tires, to cars, and people started shouting 'Death to the coup d'état...
Before we settle on the narrative that there has been a hard-line takeover in Iran, an illegitimate coup d'état, we need to seriously consider the possibility that there has been a popular hard-line takeover, an electoral mandate for Ahmadinejad and his policies. One of the only reliable, Western polls conducted in the run-up to the vote gave the election to Ahmadinejad - by higher percentages than the 63% he actually received. The poll even predicted that Mousavi would lose in his hometown of Tabriz, a result that many skeptics have viewed as clear evidence of fraud...
What kind of action would you like to see? I heard that he expressed regret over the coup d'état of 1953, and that itself is a positive step because it will assuage people's negative mentalities in the country...
...proposed 85,000 new residents play soccer, go to school or seek police protection? "We don't want to see it grow faster than the infrastructure to take care of it," says MCA president Rob Jackson. The task force agrees and wants the county to build a tit-for-tat system into the redevelopment plan to ensure that private development moves in lockstep with the public amenities needed to support...