The Iranian intelligentsia and those commuting from Tehran are unanimous: the
legitimacy of the regime as a whole is in play. The regime can't allow the
genie of democracy to get out of the lamp, for it would open a Pandora's box of
dreams.
people power may have lost the street - facing a massive repression
machine; but people are not afraid anymore. They believe another Iran is
possible. All hopes lie on a protracted, creative, subversive, underground and
parallel movement of civil disobedience, with strikes and mourning ceremonies,
up and down, with lulls and crescendos.
"A generation of sons face off against a generation of fathers.
Just as the previous generation took power off the hands of the Shah, it won't
be long before the Islamic power goes to those who oppose it.
the cruelty of both regimes is
identical - as well as their incapacity to assimilate the modernity embodied by
democracy, and their fear of a different future for them and for the country
they control."
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