Iranian Green Social Movement

There are no formal and accurate statistics to tell us how many Iranians through the world have waited for the presidential election to put out Ahmadinejad from the office during the pre-election days and have been waiting for the fall of the Theocracy and Totalitarian Wall in Tehran during the days after the election.

Actually power has been kept tight in Ahmadinejad’s hands under Islamic Republic doctrine strategy, Velayat-e Faqih, and their Reformist challengers have been defeated as hard as it possible.

The events such as killing and violently defeating people and protesters, successive militarization within Tehran and the major cities in Iran, cutting off the communication system in cell phone and short massage sending (SMS), Internet filtering and so other instance show obviously the Islamic Regime’s great struggling for keeping power in its hands, while its legitimacy among people- the majority of people- actually disappeared.

Ahmadinejad and the Regime of the Islamic Republic has kept the office for their selves and the Green Carnival of the majority of the people, who have been waiting to put out the president out of the office and expected fundamental changes and reforms, replaced by the great Green Social Protest against the Regime. A Social Movement which expected to promote an Iranian Green Velvet Revolution.

Fareed Zakaria in his latest article, The Wall Isn’t Falling, in daily Newsweek  put in:

Whenever we see the kinds of images that have been coming out of Iran over the past two weeks, we tend to think back to 1989 and Eastern Europe. That time, when people took to the streets and challenged their governments, those seemingly stable regimes proved to be hollow and quickly collapsed. What emerged was liberal democracy. Could Iran yet undergo its own velvet revolution?

But, it did not.

It is hard enough for me to analyze how come this expectation did not happen, or actually, why The Berlin Wall did not fall again! This is absolutely a complex phenomenon which deeply depends on its social roots during the history and I prefer to procrastinate and meticulously articulate my assumptions.

Iranian green Velvet Revolution did not happened but a Public space and the strong Civil Society, which are the social pre-required factors for a Democratic-Liberal political system, are actually revived and improved through the latest events.

Exactly because of this grown up Civil Society include the lack of Islamic Republic legitimacy; there is no way for coming back. Although the wall of Regime’s Totalitarianism did not still fall! But its fattened glass of its Theocracy actually has been fall.

 *The title comes from Zakaria’s Article in Newsweek 13th July.