Yesterday was 40 days after the death of Neda Agha-Soltan, a particularly significant point in the Islamic mourning cycle. 40 day commemorations of protesters’ deaths were especially important in the 1979 Iranian Revolution. This time, there were so many protesters, so widely dispersed, that the Basiji seem to have been unable or unwilling to take control.
“Tehran was our town today,” exclaimed a 26-year-old woman. “We had more courage and the police less courage.”
(Thanks, AK.)
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