- I cannot explain how much the US needs to stay out of it. There's a long history of people doing YEARS of work to overthrow a dictatorship and the US swoops in at the very last minute allowing it to claim legitimacy in directing what happens after. Let the Persians finish it themselves.
- 'The scale of the unrest now gripping Iran is the largest since the demonstrations of 2009; some veteran Iran-watchers reckon the protests are the biggest since the overthrow of the shah in 1979' www.economist.com/middle-east-...