Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
Tripping Along The Ledge
velvet revolution
YES TO DEMOCRACY! YES TO EQUALITY! NO TO TESTICULAR CANCER!
Ten days ago, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad looked a shoe-in for re-election in Tehran. But as Iranians go to the polls later today, his lead looks to have all but evaporated after a massive outpouring of public support for his rival, reformist former Prime Minister Houssein Moussavi (a.k.a. Iran’s Barack Obama… possibly.) CNN reports:
Rivers of green have flowed through the streets… Called out by text message and email the numbers exceeded all expectations. By the end of the week Moussavi’s supporters stretched as far as the eye could see from one end of Tehran to another, in scenes not witnessed here since the Islamic Revolution swept this country back in 1979.