The regime refused to run the risk of becoming the next Soviet Union. By 1999, the reformist agenda was in tatters — drowned in the bloody repression of student protests in July 1999, with the full blessing of Hassan Rouhani, who was then in charge of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. And he was not merely a bystander: he called the students rabbles; sought the death penalty for them; and later proudly boasted of having given the order to suppress the student movement. How can anyone count his victory as evidence that reformists are back? That they had to support him at all is the ultimate defeat.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:05:40 +0000
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