“Escalation of the Iranian Political Crisis”

The prevailing wisdom in Middle Eastern circles is that the Iranian protests will only grow …………. here is a translation of an influential editorial in CAIRO. I have reviewed a number of pieces like this ….

CAIRO AL-AHRAM IN ARABIC 23 JUN 09 P 11(U)

Editorial: "Escalation of the Iranian Political Crisis"

No signs are visible in Iran of a possible waning of the movement
of protests and demonstrations that flared up in opposition to
Ahmadinejad's victory in the presidential elections held on 12
June. The political crisis, which is almost blowing Tehran away,
will likely escalate.

Perhaps the main reason for the worsening of the Iranian crisis is
the state of confusion dominating the ruling circles. These have
ignored the reasons why Iranians are protesting the election
results and have resorted to describing the protesters as
terrorist groups. This amounts to slander against the patriotism
of the Iranians and a great insult to their legitimate aspirations
and hopes for freedom and democracy.

This official Iranian position will tend to inflame the moves of
the demonstrators. It will not divert them from striving to
realize their demands, especially after members of the Iranian
people have been killed or wounded, in addition to the campaign of
arrests of demonstrators.

Neutral political observers therefore deem it likely that the
protest movement will escalate and that the country will fall into
spirals of bloodshed, since the Iranian protest movement is
gaining new crowds of people every day opposing the results of the
presidential elections, despite the official repression and
violence.

This means that the current confrontation between the mass protest
movement and the Iranian authorities will escalate in the next few
days in a way that may portend a further disturbance of Iranian
conditions.

 
Cairo Al-Ahram in Arabic — State-Owned
daily newspaper of record

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