Theocrats failed to anticipate dissatisfaction of majority in Iran

Attempts to undermine moderate president have backfired as mass protests against religious regime take hold, says Geoffrey Hoon.
Theocrats failed to anticipate dissatisfaction of majority in Iran

Attempts to undermine moderate president have backfired as mass protests against religious regime take hold, says Geoffrey Hoon.

THE extraordinary thing about the protests in Iran — the largest since the Green Movement, in 2009 — is that the very people they are directed against may well have started them.

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