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Article: The Wall Isn't Falling.(Fareed Zakaria)(leadership in Iran)
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- Newsweek
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- July 13, 2009
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Byline: Fareed Zakaria; Zakaria is the host of CNN's GPS With Fareed Zakaria on Sundays at 1 p.m. ET.
Historical parallels don't work in Iran.
whenever we see the kinds of images that have been coming out of Iran over the past two weeks, we tend to think back to 1989 and Eastern Europe. That time, when people took to the streets and challenged their governments, those seemingly stable regimes proved to be hollow and quickly collapsed. What emerged was liberal democracy. Could Iran yet undergo its own velvet revolution?
It's possible but unlikely. While the regime's legitimacy has cracked--a fatal wound in the long run--for now it will probably ...