http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12459970
This is a video I found at the BBC News website which is amateur footage of the protests in Tehran. Obviously protests and riots may have a pattern but they are not all alike. That being said, this protest looks very much like the ones seen in Egypt and chants even reference the Egyptian Revolution and use Mubarak as an example of the type of regime they wish to oust. They chant his name followed by claiming Saed Ali to be the supreme leader of Iran. It seems that many Middle Eastern dictatorships are all sweating a bit now since Tunisia and Egypt as the smell of revolts and protests are really in the air. Riot police are at the ready in Tehran and things have already gotten violent. This footage is from last week, but it seems to illustrates the situation with raw accuracy. I am curious to see what other dictators in the region will do as things escalate as I am sure they will continue to do. We can ask ourselves what the international reaction would be if one of the other most stable countries and allies to the US in the ME, Saudi Arabia (Egypt was the first) were to fall into revolts. It is sad to think that that conflict would have more of an economic incentive to silence, but I believe the US would. In Professor Wolff's U.S Foreign Policy class he talked about the potential implications of this and how important it would be to keep the current powers in charge even if it meant committing hypocrisy on our values. What are your thoughts?
This is a video I found at the BBC News website which is amateur footage of the protests in Tehran. Obviously protests and riots may have a pattern but they are not all alike. That being said, this protest looks very much like the ones seen in Egypt and chants even reference the Egyptian Revolution and use Mubarak as an example of the type of regime they wish to oust. They chant his name followed by claiming Saed Ali to be the supreme leader of Iran. It seems that many Middle Eastern dictatorships are all sweating a bit now since Tunisia and Egypt as the smell of revolts and protests are really in the air. Riot police are at the ready in Tehran and things have already gotten violent. This footage is from last week, but it seems to illustrates the situation with raw accuracy. I am curious to see what other dictators in the region will do as things escalate as I am sure they will continue to do. We can ask ourselves what the international reaction would be if one of the other most stable countries and allies to the US in the ME, Saudi Arabia (Egypt was the first) were to fall into revolts. It is sad to think that that conflict would have more of an economic incentive to silence, but I believe the US would. In Professor Wolff's U.S Foreign Policy class he talked about the potential implications of this and how important it would be to keep the current powers in charge even if it meant committing hypocrisy on our values. What are your thoughts?
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