Whatever else is happening today pales in comparison to the universal truth unfolding in the streets of Iranian cities. Here’s a translation of a street chant from Tehran:
“I welcome death
I welcome death
But not subjugation
But not subjugation”
Now that is change to believe in… The worst any despots can do is torture and kill you, so if you’re not afraid to die, mountains will move. I don’t know how events in Iran will work out or how long they will take, but the regime appears irrevocably doomed, regardless. Andrew Sullivan gets it. He just quoted Melville:
There is sobbing of the strong,
And a pall upon the land;
But the People in their weeping
Bare the iron hand:
Beware the People weeping
When they bare the iron hand.
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