Not velvet, but revolution
By Paul Wells - Saturday, June 20, 2009 - 54 Comments
As soon as you know how the story will end, simply knowing speeds the end’s arrival. Only five years passed between Lincoln’s House Divided speech and the Emancipation Proclamation. Gorbachev told his wife in 1986: “We can’t go on like this.” On Friday — yesterday — Ali Khamanei used Friday prayers to deliver a harangue against his own people, telling them to ignore logic and the evidence of their own hearts, to accept the sham election, and to go home and live in the dark for yet another few more years.
And he put all the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic itself behind his demand.
Big mistake. Continue…
