But Iranian opposition presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi has noted the parallel confrontations between the state power and social media in the Iranian post-election protests of 2009 and the Egyptian upheaval. In both countries,casque dr dre, the dictatorship tried to suppress popular anger by arresting dissenters and shutting down cyberspace networks. Moussavi called on Iranians to pray for the success of the Egyptian and other protesters in Arab countries.
In times of economic and social dislocation,doudoune moncler, conspiracy theories abound. The sudden uncertainty of events drives mundane people as well as pseudo-intellectuals,louboutin, in countries all over the world,beats by dre, to seek explanations for newly revealed political and financial problems in “magical thinking,casque beats,” blaming the unexpected anxieties of their lives on hidden,abercrombie, dark powers. While convoluted “explanations” for national and world events have proliferated lately in the West,franklin marshall, conspiracy theories have long flourished in the lands of Islam.
The clerical misrulers of Iran have componenticular incentives to indulge in conspiracy thinking. Their own people have clearly repudiated them,louboutin pas cher, and the news from Tunisia and Egypt indicates that Sunni as well as Shia Muslims are overcome by yearning for freedom. Iran’s ruling caste is anxious to project before the global public its particular “interpretation” of the Egyptian turmoil,moncler pas cher, to its own advantage. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared in his Friday sermon on February 4 that Tunisian dictator Zine Al-Abedine Ben Ali was overthrown becautilize of his secularism. Hardline Tehran propagandist Hossein Shariatmadari, of the daily newspaper Keyhan, has joined those who see the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions as purely Islamist,louboutin, and has proclaimed that the motive of the Egyptian protesters is to assaul Israel.
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