Fck You Ahmadinedschad! #Iranelection #Protest
That is, will this revolution take them towards openness and freedom or will it collapse back into itself?
Bernard-Henri Levy opines that this is the birth of a new revolution:
Whatever happens, the emperor has no clothes.
Whatever happens, the regime of the ayatollahs is, in the greater or lesser long term, condemned to compromise or disappear.
The photo used in this post is linked to from here: http://twitpic.com/8ehtp
[this pic clearly occupies the same metaphorical space as the famous tank man shot of Tiananmen Square, with a bit more anger]
update: photo from Tiananmen
similar yes. but it is also a woman. for Iran but also all women, this is monumental. hopefully, an iconic moment, not just in Iran’s history, but for the impact of a single (wo)man, representative of a larger population, in the narrative of a global history. i just can’t get over how this single image makes the invisible visible. “no longer can you ignore me. no longer can you pretend you don’t see me. no longer can you force me to hide behind a mask and be quiet. i have something to say and i am going to say it. and i will say it while proudly wearing my burka. it was not this cloth that silenced me. it was you.”
yes indeed. Thanks for that point. There’s an entire constellation of meanings in that photo (I think).