Iran’s History of Civil Insurrections admin, June 19, 2009February 2, 2025 [Huffington Post, Jul 20, 2009 |Updated May 25, 2011] 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. [source] Arab Spring 2011 Huffington Post Iran Nonviolent Action