How Western media backs green revolution in Iran

The European Union has rejected Irans accusations that the Western media helped engineer post-election unrest as protests in Tehran continue.

US Has Spies On the Ground in Iran



Iran's manufactured revolution:

I hate to say it but to all the dreamers in the western press who say that Iran will never be the same – lines lifted from protests past, from Ukraine to Burma to Lebanon – once all the debris is swept up, the Islamic republic will probably look eerily similar to how it looked before the presidential election.

"Whatever happens from this point on, nothing will ever be the same in Tehran," wrote Bernard-Henri Levi. "Whatever happens now, all is changed utterly in Iran," gushed Roger Cohen. Really? The theocratic leaders of Iran really will turn to YouTube, scratch their heads at the sight of the protests, and see the error of their theocratic ways?

Westerners love to overstate the importance of street demonstrations abroad. In our eyes anyone flashing the local equivalent of a v-sign salute represents all that is decent and democratic in the world. But we do them a disservice by raising false hopes and proclaiming their every protest as the next velvet revolution.

Regimes do not collapse as easily as we think. There were similar pronouncements that the junta in Burma was finished after hundreds of saffron-clad monks took to the streets a few years back. Well, guess what happened: not much. The junta continues to clamp down on the opposition. More