During the past year, Iran has shown a different face. What became known as the "Green Movement" has been undoubtedly the biggest domestic challenge that the country's ruling system has experienced in three decades. The protests began with denouncing the result of the 2009 presidential election, which many Iranians saw as fraudulent. After being clamped down, harshly and repeatedly, the people created the most massive civil movement the country has ever experienced.
The movement says it is in pursuit of a fundamental change in the Islamic Republic's international diplomacy, economic system, human rights practice and other civil issues, and that it does not recognize Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government as legitimate.
Although the street protests lost their primary drive after being relentlessly suppressed, the movement is still seeking its goals through a self-proclaimed policy of educating lower cultural classes of the society about their rights and challenging the system by a method of civil disobedience. The movement is now readying for the anniversary of the election, preparing to hold rallies as the opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karrubi have called for.
ไม่มีความคิดเห็น:
แสดงความคิดเห็น