Protests In Iran

A news flash----100 Iranian students protest a speech given by Ahmadinejad at a Tehran University. At the meeting of the Inkwell 3, we talked this over and came to a conclusion that I will pass on here.

This was a small protest that was met with a like amount of pro-government protesters. It has been reported that the young are more fed up with the policies than their elders. This was taunted as a good thing on shows like Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer on CNN. I am sure that it will be a major coup by the time it is reported by FOX. But we here are skeptics. One, this , if a true protest will lead to arrests, paper shut downs and like tactics. This story needs to be followed up on regularly to be sure it was a story. It could have been a government protest to show the world that Iran was not a totalitarian state, that they allow anti-government protests.

We here at Inkwell are leaning to the later. Why? Because of his visit to the US and being reaqd a riot act. The world was watching what was going on in Iran. This would help the government appear to be more tolerant than it has been painted. It is true that the young in Iran seem to be more pro-west than their elders, but that does not mean that they are capable of starting a "revolution".

In conclusion, we say that this needs to be watched. It is possible that it was not a major coup, but rather a PR ploy.