Making of a Revolution in Iran? Parliamentarians Collect Signatures to Summon Ahmadinejad

by Daniel Freedman
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 at 2:42 PM
updated Tue, 16 Jan 2007 at 2:57 PM

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While the Baker Commission, President Clinton, the op-ed page at the New York Times, Brent Scowcroft, and everyone else for whom a white flag has a special attractiveness are busy advocating appeasing Iran, it turns out that the pressure President Bush is putting on Iran is having an impact.

The BBC reports:

There are signs of growing opposition in Iran to the policies of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A group of reformist and moderate members of parliament have now started collecting signatures to summon him to answer questions about his policies. Editorials in normally uncritical hardline newspapers have been criticising him for being too aggressive towards the west.

And as we noted last week when reports first came in that Iranian parliamentarians were unhappy with Ahmadinejad:

And note that these "reformist" parliamentarians, are those parliamentarians deemed acceptable by the mullahs. Real reformists are banned from running in elections.

So rather than appeasing Iran, President Bush needs to continue doing what he's doing. And if this is how Iranians the mullahs approve of and allow into the parliament feel, imagine how the average Iranian feels. And imagine what undergound pro-democracy groups would do if given enough American support.

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