The South Wing

Early this morning, there were unconfirmed reports that the Iranian militia would be given live ammunition, rumors that seem to have been confirmed by the snipers shooting and killing a protester. After the previous day’s violence, when dozens were beaten by baton-wielding motorcyclists, and students were shot in their dormitories, organizing a mass-protest seemed too risky.

But they came anyway. Roughly one million protesters in Tehran alone marched, forming a line that lasted about 5 miles

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If the first requirement for a serious popular revolt is for the people to get on the street, then the Iranian reformers did that yesterday. If the second is to stay on the streets, even when beaten, even when threatened with violence, with murder, then they passed that test with flying colors today. Tomorrow, they will raise the stakes still further by implementing a general strike. But now the government can respond.

One wonders, watching the photos and the videos, reading the reports of journalists and ordinary people, if the government had a chance to react and blinked. The protesters surround a government building, and ultimately burn it down, and the militia fires. But it kills only one. A tragedy, yes, but showing a distinct lack of force in contrast with the Chinese at Tienenmen Square. It’s been two days and the army still hasn’t come, the militia still hasn’t fired.

Tomorrow, however, comes another step which may determine revolution or not. Already, Moussavi is allowing others to post on his web-site calls for the dissolution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Ayatollah Mohajerani, a liberal minister under Khatami, wrote just that

today.