Iran's 3rd Revolution: 7 Protesters Killed, Journalists Threatened with Arrest if They Report Street Protests

Currently, Ahmadinejead is in Russia, pretending that nothing is happening back home.

Women, Twitter and cell phones
are powering this revolution

flickr image by Hamed Saber

It appears more and more that the best response the US can make is to make no response at all, not recognizing Ahmadinejead, keeping out of the picture. Meanwhile, the European Union has already recognized Ahmadinejead.

According to Abbas Sadeghian, author of Sword and Seizure; Mohammed's epilepsy and the creation of Islam, born in Iran, but living in the US since 1975.

"This will be Iran's third revolution.

The first was in 1906, when the dynastic Shahs lost control and the country was changed to a constitutional monarchy, like England. The Shah had no power or responsibility, like the Queen of England. But during the second world war, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi rose to power, installed by the US. When Iran nationalized oil drilling done by US companies, the CIA engineered a coup in 1953 that replaced the legitimate prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh with the US-installed Shah.

The second revolution was started in 1978 and ended in the removal of the US installed and supported Shah. Ayatollah Khomenei took over as ruler. He killed off many of the people who had started the revolution, including some of his closest supporters because he had originally promised, when living in exile in Paris,  that Iran would be a democratic, parliamentary country, that the job of clergy would be a non-ruling supervisory one.

Once in power, Khomenei hijacked the revolution and created a sharia-based theocracy.

This third revolution appears to now be under way.

A couple of years ago we all hated the government, but couldn't do anything about it.

To fight the government, there are three possible ways to revolt.

army, which will make a coup,

church or mosque, which will do a religious uprising,

or, you have the political party which will do it.

In Iran, the supreme leader controlled the Mosques and the army and there were no free, legitimateparties, no real chance for the people to vote for an alternative, no chance to organize and start an uprising.  The parties were a sham that government put together.

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