Webcock Explains Iranian Revolution

With Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr being the main sources of information coming out of Iran outside of government run media outlets, I would be remissed to not chime in.

However most people who would ever read this blog already knows how Twitter works, and even my mother knows about the other three. So really I can't help but focus on the historical and political issues involved.

The Persian Monarchy had been in control since the early 17th Century but in the 20th Century, particularly under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Iranians saw the government as a puppet regime run by the West. So like any dignified country that believes the government isn't working in their best interest, they revolt. Unlike the American Revolution, their revolution consisted mostly of protests and memorial services, not settled on the battlefield.

Now, the Shah of Iran was not what you would call benevolent, but after overthrowing the shah the Iranians elected to found a conservative republic with a high ranking cleric as supreme leader. Now I'm no expert in world governments, but when you name a supreme leader of your country, you should realize you've founded Monarchy.

Now for the past 30 years, Iran underwent a reign that I would consider a step down from their previous regime. but the straw that broke the camel's back was the government blatantly undermining the democratic process by announcing the incumbent president as the landslide winner before the polls closed.

For the past week the Iranians have taken to the streets in massive protests, the kind of protests that instantly strike with the thoughts, “There is no way Ahmadinejad won the election in a land slide.”

The most interesting part to me in all this, many of the organizers of these protests were also involved in the organization of the 1979 Revolution, they are using the same methods of dissension and the government has been making the same mistakes in quelling this uprising.

*Disclaimer* Do not take this posting as fact, I may be wrong on a few points.

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