Sunday, June 14, 2009

Civil War

Steve Clemons debriefs a source well connected to Iran's elite:

The scariest point he made to me that I had not heard anywhere else
is that this "coup by the right wing" has created pressures that cannot
be solved or patted down by the normal institutional arrangements Iran
has constructed. The Guardian Council and other power nodes of
government can't deal with the current crisis and can't deal with the
fact that a civil war has now broken out among Iran's revolutionaries.

My contact predicted serious violence at the highest levels. He said
that Ahmadinejad is now genuinely scared of Iranian society and of
Mousavi and Rafsanjani. The level of tension between them has gone
beyond civil limits -- and my contact said that Ahmadinejad will try to
have them imprisoned and killed.

Posted by at