The annual al-Quds rallies in Iran in support of Palestinians have descended into a massive anti-government protest. Tens of thousands of opposition supporters have used the events to indicate their support for one of the losing presidential candidates, Mousavi, in the recently held June 09 elections. The support has, however, been met with a swift police crackdown and there are unconfirmed reports of small scale clashes between police and citizens across Tehran - mirroring similar violence following the disputed June elections. Amid all of this fresh unrest President Ahmadinejad spewed the usual anti-Israeli rhetoric to a receptive audience of party apparatchiks at the Tehran University, claiming (again) that the Holocaust was a myth created by the West and Israel to justify the occupation of Palestinian lands. Mecasr are watching developments closely and with great interest. The question on everyone's minds now is "can the opposition sustain the protests?" The answer is probably not but one never knows. The 1979 revolution came as a surprise to the Shah, but then again only his mother and Jimmy Carter loved him. In Iran today there enough people to prop up the regime.
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