If you want to follow what's going on in Iran the best source is Andrew Sullivan. He's doing wall-to-wall coverage of everything that's going on... and he's getting a lot of his information by following Twitter.
Damn. It's hard to make fun of Twitter if the "tweets" bring down the Iranian government.
A year ago I was an American who thought every nation would be better off as a democracy and that all people yearn for democracy. Today I'm not so sure. If there was a secret ballot vote in this country, "Should the UAE be a democracy?" the proposition would fail 90-10 or even 95-5. People here see no need for elected leaders because the current ruling class is doing a good job. That's not public propaganda that's the behind-closed-doors assessment.
Also, they see the election of Hamas and Hezbollah in Gaza and Lebanon, the vote fraud in Iran, the fractious politics of Iraq. The response: "Democracy? Who needs it?"
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