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Originally Posted by KilyenaMage
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Maybe you're unaware...but Iran doesn't exactly let their people hold open demonstrations. The last time it happened, people were beaten and killed and that was long before the recent developments in Egypt. What do you think is gonna happen THIS time around!?!?
Where the Egyptian government promised not to harm/kill civilians, I'm sure the Iranian leadership will have no qualms at all using deadly force to put down a potentially coup-causing rebellion.
Also, unlike Egypt, Iran really doesn't care if civilian-shot video footage of people being beaten/killed makes international news. The only reason Egypt cared about stopping the release of such footage was because Mubarak actually thought he would be able to stay in his seat of unscrupulous power.
Ultimately though....we can be fairly certain that the Iranian leaders would not be so willing to peacefully step down -- really it's a wonder that Mubarak did. Unfortunately I think that such an event taking place in Tehran would result in some of the greatest human rights violations we've seen in recent years. Perhaps the end result of it all would be international condemnation of Iran -- but again, they're already disliked by most of the world community, they simply don't care.
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Lol dude. Egypt didn't allow mass demonstrations either. Thats why the army was called in on the second day, The government sent mobs of pro-mubark thugs to beat up protesters, Attacked and Arrested Foreign Journalists, Shut down the Banks, Blocked Internet Access and brought down phone service to try and silence the masses. Sounds EXACTLY like Tehran 2009 to me. NO dictatorship "allows" mass public dissent, but when you have 300,000 people protesting in your capital city its pretty hard to make that just go away. The Tehran 2009 presidential election protests only involved tens of thousands instead of hundreds of thousands and eventually millions of people protesting. If the ripple effect countries, and 100,000s of thousands start to protest in Iran...then things are going to get very interesting.