A very good post. I'm also keeping track of the Middle East politics and from what I've read of Mir Mousavi, he would've been a good replacement of Ahmadinejad, just too bad the president has control over the elections.
It'll definitely be interesting to see how it all plays out, particularly since the whole world is watching. I keep hoping that that will mean something, you know? It's one thing if your countrymen are pressuring you, it's something more when the rest of the world is as well...
Thanks for posting this. My country is stupid, so I literally have to hunt down news about topics like Middle Eastern politics - there has been absolutely no mention of this in the news or the radio over here. Those links you posted are great!
I'm really curious to see how things are going to end up. The fact that so many people outside Iran are showing support gives me hope, like you said above, perhaps the fact that the whole world are watching is going to make a difference.
On the other hand, the riots here in Greece back in December lasted for a month, and a lot of us were under the impression that the whole world was watching, when in fact no one knew anything, or cared, and in the end we didn't manage a thing. But things were not that bad here, there weren't that many dead, there wasn't military involvement (though it was close), and there wasn't such a clear, blatant violation of democracy we were fighting.
I hope, but I suspect that's mostly because I'm incurably optimistic. The hope come too, from the people I know here on LJ and who I know are blogging in other places.
Half the problem with the Greece protests was they way that the media ended up reporting on them. You can see it in the way that they're talking about Iran right now too. None of them want to come out and say, 'there's an injustice going on here'. They're attempting to be impartial and objective, and in doing so, give the opposition a position of validity that they wouldn't otherwise have enjoyed. Like, this article here in the second and third paragraphs. It's subtle, and therein probably lies the problem. Like the way that the words at the beginning of this article puts the protests of those hundreds of thousands who voted for Mousavi on the same level as those who are staging victory celebrations. It's the comparison that gives the impression of it just being angry people pointlessly protesting when the reality is that that couldn't be farther from the truth
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I hope too. I'm ridiculously optimistic, despite having experienced things that should, by all means, make me the biggest pessimist. I hope this is going to end up better for them than it did for us.
Hmm, I see what you mean, with the way the media portray events. And, you know, I don't really get it, I agree with you that this creates most of the problems. Official news should be objective, of course, but when it comes to matters like this... It's like someone writing about, say, a murder and avoiding mentioning that murder is wrong. Fraud is a crime, a civil law violation, and it's against the most basic rules of democracy, it's as simple as that, so I find it completely ridiculous when the media try to avoid blatantly stating that there's an injustice going on there
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I'm really curious to see how things are going to end up. The fact that so many people outside Iran are showing support gives me hope, like you said above, perhaps the fact that the whole world are watching is going to make a difference.
On the other hand, the riots here in Greece back in December lasted for a month, and a lot of us were under the impression that the whole world was watching, when in fact no one knew anything, or cared, and in the end we didn't manage a thing. But things were not that bad here, there weren't that many dead, there wasn't military involvement (though it was close), and there wasn't such a clear, blatant violation of democracy we were fighting.
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Half the problem with the Greece protests was they way that the media ended up reporting on them. You can see it in the way that they're talking about Iran right now too. None of them want to come out and say, 'there's an injustice going on here'. They're attempting to be impartial and objective, and in doing so, give the opposition a position of validity that they wouldn't otherwise have enjoyed. Like, this article here in the second and third paragraphs. It's subtle, and therein probably lies the problem. Like the way that the words at the beginning of this article puts the protests of those hundreds of thousands who voted for Mousavi on the same level as those who are staging victory celebrations. It's the comparison that gives the impression of it just being angry people pointlessly protesting when the reality is that that couldn't be farther from the truth ( ... )
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Hmm, I see what you mean, with the way the media portray events. And, you know, I don't really get it, I agree with you that this creates most of the problems. Official news should be objective, of course, but when it comes to matters like this... It's like someone writing about, say, a murder and avoiding mentioning that murder is wrong. Fraud is a crime, a civil law violation, and it's against the most basic rules of democracy, it's as simple as that, so I find it completely ridiculous when the media try to avoid blatantly stating that there's an injustice going on there ( ... )
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