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MICHAEL LEDEEN: So How?s It Going In Iran? ?To start with, the BBC, long considered a shill for th?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICHAEL LEDEEN: So How’s It Going In Iran? “To start with, the BBC, long considered a shill for the regime by most Iranian dissidents, estimates between one and two million Tehranis demonstrated against the regime on Monday. That?s a big number. So we can say that, at least for the moment, there is a revolutionary mass in the streets of Tehran. There are similar reports from places like Tabriz and Isfahan, so it?s nationwide. . . . What?s going to happen?, you ask. Nobody knows, even the major actors. The regime has the guns, and the opposition has the numbers. The question is whether the numbers can be successfully organized into a disciplined force that demands the downfall of the regime.” But read the whole thing. And note this: “We are still quite early in this process.”

UPDATE: Don’t Iranians Deserve “Hope and Change” Too? “The post-election options couldn’t be any more clear-cut: fight for democracy and human rights ? or cut a deal with a thuggish despot at any price. What will Obama choose?”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).