June 19, 2009 12:56 AM UTC

Iran Open Thread - like our revolution

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• by: DavidThi808

Every revolution is different but this strikes me as being much like our American Revolution where a number of the leaders in society are leading the effort and what they want is a change in the process, but not a radical change of the entire system.

Two biggest pieces of news today HuffPo

The Basij have now begun to cover their faces, whereas previously they hadn’t. This indicates they are becoming more scared of retaliation from the general public. Also, we have heard that cell phone service is cut off at night. There have been efforts to identify members of the Basij who have used violence against demonstrators, through facebook and other social networking websites.

It’s interesting to see some in the feared militias themselves becoming afraid of retaliation.

According to a member of Iran’s parliament quoted in the piece, a verbal scuffle — and then a physical altercation — broke out yesterday when several MPs questioned why more wasn’t being done to stop the attacks by the plainclothes paramilitary Basiji.

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