What I’ve been able to find confirms that this by R. Fiyouzat is very solid & objective.

http://pulsemedia.org/2009/06/16/the-bomb-iran-contingents-newfound-concern-for-the-iranian-people/

Back in 2003,we have this:

The nonviolent script for Iran
By Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall
WASHINGTON – Renewed student-led protests in Tehran should expedite the debate in Washington about Iran. Two questions are being asked: Can protests produce regime change, and what kind of external support would help?
The history of civilian-based movements, like the one now gestating in Iran, shows that agitation in the streets is not enough to topple a government. If US assistance merely adds fuel to the existing fire, and internal opposition is not based on weakening the real sources of the regime’s power, neither will work.
The “people power” revolution in the Philippines, the coalition that ousted Pinochet in Chile, South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement, and civilian movements that felled communist regimes in Poland and Eastern Europe all had common strategic features. They were deliberately nonviolent, proudly indigenous, unified on the basis of practical goals, and dispersed across the map and class lines of the country – and they co-opted the military. [Editor's note: Due to an editing error, the original version of this opinion piece inaccurately referred to the "people power" revolution in the Philippines as the "Filipinos' power revolution."]
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Cheerleading from Washington is not a policy. It makes Iranian protesters appear to be doing America’s bidding, and covert support for violent action would undercut their legitimacy. What’s needed is a more strategic resistance by the Iranian opposition, unified behind clear political goals, backed by broader civilian participation, using tactics that divide the clerics and their military defenders. The Iranian people have the drive, the intelligence, and the capability to make such a strategy work – and that is what the world’s democracies should assist.
• Peter Ackerman is executive producer of the Peabody award-winning documentary, ‘Bringing Down a Dictator’ and chairman of the board of overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Jack DuVall is coauthor of ‘A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict’ and director of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.
http://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/rscs_csmArticle.shtml

Meanwhile, it’s tragicomic to watch you tit-for-tat sophomores pooh-pooh electoral fraud and defend the leftist-crushing, closed-trial-staging, corruption-based Ayatollah system.

Sick.

It’s so hard to look at any country on the planet with a critical eye without the return gaze of hypocracy.

Clearly, the “stolen election” story isn’t selling, no doubt because no amount of fraud can turn a defeat into a 65% victory. Regardless of fraud, Ahmadinejad must have got a clear majority of votes. Thus, all talk of fraud is irrelevant.

“System candidates”: what country has ever elected “anti-system candidates”? Systems evolve and power shifts within the various factions of a system, but systems are overthrown in coups, not elections.
Polls: Mr Fiyouzat defeats his own argument by pointing out that the poll he refers to was conducted weeks before the election.
“Mising” ballots: laughable! A claim by a candidate is not proof of anything! And the mere fact that only part of the electorate voted, a standard event in every country in the world, does not, of itself, raise the slightest suspicion of electoral fraud! The same goes for stamps.
Phone call: a claim by a candidate’s supporter that someone made a phone call is not evidence that the phone call was ever made!

Thus, Mr Fiyouzat provides no evidence of any electoral fraud and, more importantly, of any fraud which might have changed the result. Indeed, the mere fact that his “evidence” is so flimsy discredits his whole thesis.

Iranian History Doesn’t Move in a Straight Line
by Afshin Rattansi
http://www.counterpunch.org/rattansi06162009.html

Thanks for your report.

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06162009.html

Last night, the pro-Mousavi camp tried to take over a military depot. Any sane, objective individual would have to ask what citizens (however grief stricken they may be) aim to achieve by taking over a military depot.

It does show that the annual US budget to promote a velvet revolution in Iran hasn’t gone to waste.