This is an anaemic post about a subject I think about a lot but don’t seem to be able to do justice to here.

Mehdi Khalaji, writing for the Washington Institute, points to splits between Ahmadinejad’s opponent Mousavi, himself deeply conservative, and the young third generation of Iranians who comprise the majority of Iran’s Green Movement.

Hamid Tehrani posts videos on Global Voices Online.

And a predecessor, Tahirih, Persian martyr, who unveiled at a conference in 1848 and was later executed.