Illusion, Reality & Courage in Iran By Carl Bloice
25 June, 2009 – The Black Commentator – June 25, 2009 – Issue 330
In the movie ‘The Year of Living Dangerously’ the little guy Billy Kwan, brilliantly played by Linda Lee, gives a news reporter Guy Hamilton, played by Mel Gibson, a talk about Indonesian puppets – the kind on sticks, which you can now sometime find in import shops in this country. The figures as shown are shadows from behind a screen. What you, see – thousands of protestors in the streets, police repression, official statements and the like – the guide explains, is the image; what is really going on behind the screen you cannot see. ‘Look at the shadows, not at the puppet,’ Kwan tells Hamilton.
At the time of this writing former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, an opponent of officially-reelected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is holed up in the religious center of Qum. Speculation is that he is contemplating his next move as members of his family including his daughter, Faezeh Hashemi are arrested held for several hours and then released. What’s that all about? Who knows? It’s one many mysteries inside mysteries made more illusory by the regime’s near complete media ban instituted while the police and militia thugs beat and murder supporters of officially defeated opposition presidential candidate Mir Hussein Mousavi.
