Images of Street Art in Tehran are screaming for change. Sometimes the best presents you receive are the ones that show you people are not alone in fighting for what is right. Weapons of this battle?
Feet. Minds. Paint. Words.
If you wander through the streets of Tehran, you may encounter some of these images. Look at each of these pictures closely.
Another thing you will notice if you wander around the streets of Tehran, is a country whose population is primarily under the age of 35. The beards who ran the Islamic Revolution had an 'issue with condoms' around 1979. And since nobody could go out and have a drink and a dance to bide their evenings, young couples took up more amorous pursuits. The result is a country with a young population. A population with ever increasing female university students. A country with people who know how to dodge firewalls. A people imbued with a passion for self-expression and a rich artistic tradition.
This picture above says volumes about the state of women in Iran.
President Ahmadinejad's picture has been defaced here. This also speaks volumes. What does it say about the state of the election in Iran? That there are problems. It was not handled well, and voter fraud is absolutely apparent.
Is Iran primed for a another revolution?
5 comments:
Primed? Most certainly! Any chance for success? Absolutely not. No more so than it will be here when enough people finally wake up and realize what's been erased and continues to be eroded of their rights and protections from their own supposedly freely elected representation. We're rapidly losing our ability to defend ourselves against much less revolt and rebuild our government as was intentionally provided for and deemed a patriotic duty by the framers of our constitution.
One cannot win a revolution against that kind of standing corrupt power armed only with sticks and stones.
Especially when that very power has been preparing for the eventuality and using fear to convince the people to voluntarily give up the things they'll one day need most in order to resist.
I hope Joe is wrong.
Im sure he is of the USA, but in Iran they have a tougher fight.
But remebert it didnt take any guns to bring the Berlin Wall down
I absolutely agree. The Mullahs are not going to give the country away for a minute. They had Ahmanutjob on a lease. The problem is they really came out with the "result" of the election a little too soon. I mean really the opponents home town? They should have given them that win. It looks like voter fraud, it smells like a rigged election...It was.
Seriously, Iran a democratic society...who are they kidding?
This will fester and develop over the years before anything happens...when all these 30 somethings are about 60!
Not in our life time.
Realistically, I think Joe is right. You know what brought the Berlin Wall down....time. A new generation replaced the old guard.
I am not going to hold my breath. Look at the suffering for all those years.
P.S. Reagan just capitalized on a time that had come to Germany. He didn't bring the wall down dispite American GOP lore.
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