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The Iranian Uprising is Home-Grown, and Must Stay That Way

Posted on June 19, 2009August 31, 2025

Common Dreams June 19, 2009
The growing nonviolent insurrection in Iran against the efforts by the ruling clerics to return the ultra-conservative and increasingly autocratic incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinjead to power is growing. Whatever the outcome, it represents an exciting and massive outpouring of Iranian civil society for a more open and pluralistic society…

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Iran’s History of Civil Insurrections
60-Second Expert: Democracy in the Middle East

Resources to thwart the coup at
ActivistTools.org, NoKings.org
ChooseDemocracy.us,
NonviolenceInternational.net,
and WagingNonviolence.org


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