Iran’s Events Today: The Worst Possible Outcome?
RealClearWorld’s Kevin Sullivan has a great roundup of events today in Iran — and he fears today’s events were the worst possible outcome:
In a way, I fear what happened today may be the worst possible outcome. The Iranian government’s brutality has been put on display, but that’s in part due to the lower-than-anticipated turnout in Tehran (judging from secondhand info, sitting at a disadvantage in the United States). Had the crowd been larger, I suspect anyway, that it would have tied the hands of the regime. You can’t shoot at 100,000+ people and expect to get away with it. You can, however, isolate and scatter a few thousand people. These are very brave Iranians, and I shudder to think what might happen to them after today.
He and other sites are also now linking to or embedding a very violent video of the death of a young woman protester (go HERE and look under the 2:37 entry and you’ll see it…it has been removed often from You Tube).
RCP’s Sullivan concludes:
What was it that President Ahmadinejad once called the government in Jerusalem? A “rotting, stinking corpse,” I believe? I can then only imagine what that makes this cabal in Tehran.
One Response to “Iran’s Events Today: The Worst Possible Outcome?”
The fact is that the regime played its cards perfectly. They seem to have arrested the career politicians/possibly sympathetic security leaders and journalists/artists over the the last few days leaving no one to guide the protestors. Today Andrew Sullivan had tons of people saying that they were purposefully isolating people as they were trying to get to the rally to prevent critical mass. Unless mass protests/riots/strikes break out across the entire country, I think things will die down rather soon.