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.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.