“Neda, stay with me! “, the man cries. But it was of no use: On the very
same day, the video of the dying Neda Agha-Soltan was shown on Youtube.

Up to now, at least 80 people had fallen prey to the brutality of the
regime’s militia. Some members of the opposition were already threatened with
capital punishment. Neda’s death isn’t a singular case, but rather a
general rule. Some people were already executed. The Islamic Republic was a
failing model from the very first, because of its being a monarchic
archetype.

1979, after the fall of the Shah, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from
exile to Teheran and showed his draft for an Islamic Republic of Iran
to the first Assembly of Experts, the leaders of the revolution: In fact,
the chief of state, the “Supreme Leader”, controls the “Guardian Council”,
the mightiest authority in the state (except the leader himself), so he’s
not realistically deposible. An oppositional control is not given. It’s
sure, that Khomeini was the first Supreme Leader. A state like this cannot
work, as the demonstrations show, and only with oppressive means the state
can enforce itself.

But is Mir Hossein Mussawi, the opposition’s favoured candidate much better?
He is not the reformer most people in Europe would wish. For example Mehdi
Karroubi, promised gender equity.

Now the Iranians have chosen, and if Mussawi should become president of the
Iran, we will have to be pleased because we have to support the Iranians cum
their choices. If the Iranian regime should accept the election, the
“Islamic Republic” may become a bit more of a “Republic” at all.