The Iranian government of Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, after having beaten and killed opponents in the streets and tortured them in prison, now put them under trial. A trial inspired by medieval Inquisition, in which the defendants "confessed" to be manipulated by the enemies of the country and the enemies of God, after being "convinced" in jail with methods that we can easily imagine and that the same regime has, in some cases, admitted.
The ultimate goal of this farce is to destroy the opposition to the conservative regime, especially former President Khatami, the candidate "defeated" by rigged elections Moussavi and Karroubi and anyone who opposes the fanatic drift of the iranian government, which aims to eliminate any opposition and will eventually get to a direct confrontation with the West on the nuclear issue.
Half of Iran that put under trial the other half, with the absurd illusion of being able to destroy it and so retain their power forever. The strategy may also work in the short term, given that the information in Iran has very little space and freedom and all journalists and independent bloggers were thrown in jail to silence them. But in the medium and long term Ahmadinejad and Khamenei will not have an easy life, because they failed to close all the blogs that talk about what really happens in Iran, and simply because the opposition is not a fringe minority in the payroll of foreign powers as they would like the majority of Iranians to believe.
The protests have shown that there are many Iranians who cannot stand no more to live in medieval times, who want a modern and secular country. Iran is not a "third world" country, where a dictatorship can sustain itself indefinitely simply because the population is too poor and ignorant to do something about it. Although there are dramatic pockets of poverty in the country, of course hidden by the regime that claims to take care of people, GDP per capita in Iran is equal to that of countries like Brazil and South Africa, and therefore, a nation that is approaching levels of development comparable to those of the West.
This means computers in many homes, the ability to see how the world works outside the country, a large proportion of the population that is educated and informed, despite the censorship of the regime. That now is trying to put on trial half of the country and its legitimate aspirations, but with just this kind of action appears both at home and abroad increasingly weak and desperate.
Francesco Defferrari
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