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For a socialist, not a “color” revolution in Iran

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by Peter Symonds
http://www.wsws.org
22 June 2009

The protests in Tehran over the weekend have served to highlight the limited social base of the political opponents of the dominant faction of the Iranian clerical regime. The opposition movement has not only failed to draw in broader layers of working people, but has markedly weakened.

From the outset, the color-coded campaign to replace incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Mir Hossein Mousavi has been a highly orchestrated political operation backed by the US and managed by dissident elements of the ruling elite—in particular, former president and billionaire businessman Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani—for their own ends.

There is nothing progressive in their aims. Insofar as they have differences with their erstwhile associates, Mousavi and his supporters are seeking to shift policies further to the right through a more rapid accommodation with the US and a drastic acceleration of the program of market reform. They make no appeal to working people, for whom such a program can only mean economic devastation, and base themselves on sections of the bourgeoisie and more privileged and frankly selfish layers of the urban middle classes.

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see

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What The Media’s NOT Telling You About Iran’s Police Brutality

Are the Iranian Election Protests Another US Orchestrated ‘Color Revolution’? By Paul Craig Roberts

CIA, Iran and the Election Riots

9 thoughts on “For a socialist, not a “color” revolution in Iran”

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  6. I have to agree.

    I am not certain that all those are the ground are aware of the “market” forces behind it, but, they are there.

    One must look at what people, who are now speaking of “freeing” Iran were talking about a few weeks ago–“freeing” Iran by bombing it, or in the same way we “freed” Iraq.

    two-three disasters at a time, please…sigh

    The US getting out of the Middle East–now THAT would be “revolutionary”!

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