the revolution must be televised
I know it's Saturday and many of you are probably not even checking livejournal, much less the news reports and blogs, but I've been following the Iranian election over at Andrew Sullivan's the Daily Dish and shit is going DOWN, y'all.
Ahmadinejad stole an election, basically, or at least we're assuming he did based on statistically evidence (the voting numbers just alone don't make sense, without factoring in other, less numerical, indicators) and the people are not having it. Tehran isn't having it. The people are rioting and protesting. IN IRAN, guys.
Sullivan is hoping the mainstream media pick up the story and concentrate on it with the intensity that it needs. This could be a real moment for change and for the overthrowing of one of the world's most oppressive regimes, but it will be crushed if no one is watching and paying attention.
Is anyone else following this story? I'm just kind of in shock right now. The very idea of a coup or a revolution in IRAN of all places...
Ahmadinejad stole an election, basically, or at least we're assuming he did based on statistically evidence (the voting numbers just alone don't make sense, without factoring in other, less numerical, indicators) and the people are not having it. Tehran isn't having it. The people are rioting and protesting. IN IRAN, guys.
Sullivan is hoping the mainstream media pick up the story and concentrate on it with the intensity that it needs. This could be a real moment for change and for the overthrowing of one of the world's most oppressive regimes, but it will be crushed if no one is watching and paying attention.
Is anyone else following this story? I'm just kind of in shock right now. The very idea of a coup or a revolution in IRAN of all places...