Iran: Opposition continues to guide council dissent
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For the Iranian opposition demonstrators who wonder what next step to follow, they are encouraged to consult a source that has helped several non-violent revolutions in Eastern Europe: A guide of how to overthrow dictatorships, written by a retired U.S. scholar, little known outside their circle of activities.
But the Iranian regime definitely knows Gene Sharp, of 81 years.
Your name and the reference to his book written in 1993 has spread across all the internet sites of opposition and social contact.
Last year, Iran released a video fiction in which he and others cautioned, including Senator John McCain and the billionaire George Soros, plans to conduct the velvet revolution in the country, referring to the revolution that overthrew the Communist government in what was Czechoslovakia 1989.
The Iranian authorities have released the same allegations to those who sympathize with the opposition leader Mir Hossein Musavi, who claims that the June 12 elections were stolen by fraud in order to re-elect Mamud a president Ahmadinejad.
Sharp denies any involvement in starting the worst internal unrest since Iran has had the Islamic Revolution of 1979. But he said that he would feel happy if your job to help the Iranians to maintain a peaceful resistance.
The more you know that there is an alternative non-violence to violence both as to the submission , are more likely to adopt a wiser course of a rather stupid, Sharp noted in a telephone interview from Boston.
There are countless references to the text written by Sharp From dictatorship to democracy, in several places on the internet chat and Twitter, which have become the lifesavers of the protest movement while the Iranian government suppresses the news media, the website Mousavi sympathizers and other media.
It seems that the protesters have no way to organize. Can anyone give some idea? asked someone in an anonymous note posted on WhyWeProtest.net (porqueprotestamos.net), a site green, the color Mousavi and their supporters have taken to the reformist movement.