Moussavi and Karoubi recently published a one-hour-long video of their first “Cyber Press Conference” on Youtube. At the end of the video the producers appreciate what they call “helps from anonymous friends of the Green Movement in the state-run broadcasting body”. I interpret this as evidence that people from the inner circles of the Iranian political system are gambling on the end of the regime, and this is text-book example of what the advocates of the non-violent movement have been theorizing for long, i.e. the possibility of finding converts in a political regime and to have the system tremble without shooting a bullet.

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