I’m slow...do we LIKE the coup because it is against, Dinnerjacket, or NOT LIKE it because its a face-saving gesture that will keep the Mullah’s in power and distance them from Dinnerjacket?
“I’m slow...do we LIKE the coup because it is against, Dinnerjacket”
In one way, we don’t like the coup because the Mullahs used the Revolutionary Guard to keep Ahmadinejad in power. But the good thing about this is that we now know for a fact (even though it was obvious, earlier) that Mousavi and the reformers won the election and that it was stolen from them.
I have been under the impression that the Revolutionary Guard has been reluctant to enforce the mullahs’ orders, and therefore reluctant to support Dinnerjacket — a good thing, at least in the short term. Anything that undermines Khameni is a good thing. Remains to be seen whether the Iranian people would be better off or worse off in the long run.