Iran Snapshot: How Do You React to a Country Like Tunisia? (Tehran Bureau)
Friday, January 21, 2011 at 9:23
Earlier this week Tehran Bureau posted a series of first-hand reactions from Iranians to the fall of the Ben Ali regime in Tunisia. A selection....
Text message circulating around Iran: "Tunis tunest [did it], Iran natunest [couldn't do it]."
Journalist, 28: "It's okay to celebrate for now. We did the same thing.... I'll tell you in about 20 years what you got yourselves into."
Anonymous on Persian-language website: "We revolted with a leader and an ideology and this is how it turned out for us. I feel sorry for the Tunisians, who brought about a revolution without leadership or an ideology."
Basij member, 37: "Agha [the Supreme Leader] was right about Islamic awakening and the Muslim world learning from the successful example of our revolution. Inshallah, the values of the Revolution will reach every corner of the Muslim world."
Tehrani joke: "Ben Ali, please tell Seyed Ali [Khamenei] to follow you wherever you go!"
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