Another Iranian Revolution?

(The photo from "The New York Times")

After the Iranian elections in June 2009, meanwhile President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad started his second term with the majority of votes, the opposition candidates, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi challenged him by questioning the validity of the elections. Since then, a series of protests erupted in Iran at irregular intervals which have become known as the “Green Movement”. Immediately following the creation of this movement, the international observers doubted the likelihood of a serious impact of the demonstrations. However, after the recent December 28th demonstrations in which without any previous announcements by their leaders, a vast number of opposition supporters took to the streets of Iran on the holy day of Ashura, various political analysts started to reflect on the possible long term outcomes of the “Green Movement” rather than its persistence.
During the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, it was highly possible that after the revolutionaries overcome the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s regime, they would create a fundamentalist government. But after several months of demonstrations it is still uncertain what the outcome of the demonstrations will be.