A picture posted on Twitter's photo-sharing website TwitPic by the user madyar shows supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi marching on Krimkhan Bridge during a rally in Tehran. Iran's opposition stepped up its challenge to the Islamic regime on Wednesday holding another rally even as the authorities intensified a crackdown on the media. (AFP/TWITPIC)From Townhall/ Paul Greenberg:
I knew about the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in the glorious year 1989, when the Iron Curtain crumbled. I can even remember the Singing Revolution in Estonia about the same time. But this is something new: a Silent Revolution. The huge throng that marched through the Iranian capital last Monday spoke nary a word, Theirs was a silent vigil for a liberty not so much lost as never gained, from Shah to Ayatollah.
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My Comment: It is silent .... for now.
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