MB Civic

By David Ignatius | Friday, June 19, 2009 } The Washington Post

“…What’s happening on the streets of Tehran is a lesson in what makes history: It isn’t guns or secret police, in the end, but the willingness of hundreds of thousands of people to risk their lives to protest injustice. That is what overthrew the shah of Iran in 1979, and it is now shaking the mullahs. This is politics in the raw — unarmed people defying soldiers with guns — and it is the stuff of which revolutions are made. Whether it will succeed in Iran is impossible to predict, but already this movement has put an overconfident regime on the ropes….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061803369_pf.html