Thursday, February 19, 2004
Iran: Reform Papers Closed UPDATED
Winds of Change(which also has several other great links to sites by Iranian bloggers found here, here, and here) scoops western media and reports that two popular reform papers have been closed for printing the letter written by moderate MPs which criticizes Khamenei (I blogged this letter yesterday).
I wonder if this is the beginning of a crackdown, and if the moderates will respond.
As I've written before in numerous blogs (which you may find in a chain of glosses in my post I linked above) the political situation in Iran is quite unstable. While it may appear the conservatives have the upper hand, at any time Katami, the moderate president, may finally declare he has had enough, put behind himself his past of backing down to conservative aggression, and attempt to lead a more effective political opposition or insurrection against the conservatives.
I hope he does so. Democracy in Iran is in the best interest of both Iranians and the world.
UPDATE: Oxblog has loads of stuff on Iran today (bleh, they get to blog in the morning, so they always scoop me;). Of interest are the blogs on the Iranian students criticizing Kerry, the Iranian papers being closed, and news on the corrupt election and the boycott by Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi.
I wonder if this is the beginning of a crackdown, and if the moderates will respond.
As I've written before in numerous blogs (which you may find in a chain of glosses in my post I linked above) the political situation in Iran is quite unstable. While it may appear the conservatives have the upper hand, at any time Katami, the moderate president, may finally declare he has had enough, put behind himself his past of backing down to conservative aggression, and attempt to lead a more effective political opposition or insurrection against the conservatives.
I hope he does so. Democracy in Iran is in the best interest of both Iranians and the world.
UPDATE: Oxblog has loads of stuff on Iran today (bleh, they get to blog in the morning, so they always scoop me;). Of interest are the blogs on the Iranian students criticizing Kerry, the Iranian papers being closed, and news on the corrupt election and the boycott by Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi.
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