Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs:
Taking the above-suggested vote count at face value - 11 million votes for Ahmadinejad - one cannot brand the current events in Iran as that of people versus the government, as many in the Western media portray, for the government also enjoys a strong grassroots support.
The reality unobserved by the Western media is that today's crisis is not about people against a totalitarian regime. Rather, it is a struggle between two factions of society. One faction is seeking a dramatic liberalization of society, while the other advocates strict adherence to religious principles. This is an extraordinarily unique situation. This is tradition against modernity.
The battle between the two was fierce and merciless during the shah's time before his ouster in 1979. It was the root cause of the revolution, and has continued to stay that way to the present, and will extend into the foreseeable future.
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