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13 Jun 2009 08:23 pm
Was It A Military Coup?
That is what this Tehran Bureau report suggests. Brian Ulrich thinks this makes sense:
A coup that originated with the military rather than the clerical or lay political leaders resolves what I saw the the
main flaw with
Juan Cole's reconstruction.
It also dovetails well with Interior Ministry employees' warnings that
Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi, who is influential in the military,
issued a fatwa authorizing manipulation of the elections. A
coup led by the military is also easier to explain than one ordered by
Ayatollah Khamene'i. I had been thinking about the implications of a
Mousavi victory, and concluded that, given the continuing conservative
dominance of Parliament, the most important changes for Iranians would
be a different economic policy and the replacement of someone hostile
to the old revolutionary establishment embodied by the likes of
Rafsanjani with someone who was actually a part of it.
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