Iran's popular uprising, which began after the June 12 election, may be heading for a premature ending, write Ploughshares Fund grantee Trita Parsi [2] and board member Reza Aslan [3] in Foreign Policy [4]. "In many ways, the Ahmadinejad government has succeeded in transforming what was a mass movement into dispersed pockets of unrest. Whatever is now left of this mass movement is now leaderless, unorganized -- and under the risk of being hijacked by groups outside Iran in pursuit of their own political agendas."
(photo: Tarhan Rajabali [5])
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[1] https://ploughshares.org/file/900
[2] http://www.ploughshares.org/expert/220
[3] http://www.ploughshares.org/about-us/reza-aslan
[4] http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/26/the_end_of_the_beginning?page=0,0
[5] http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhashemi/3623583250/
[6] http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/26/the_end_of_the_beginning?page=0%2C0