BEIRUT — The troubles that have followed the Iranian presidential elections were not a frustrated East European-style “color revolution”; nor was presidential candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi’s movement an uprising of liberal Westernized sympathizers against the principles of the Iranian Revolution — albeit there were surely some who are hostile to the Revolution among his supporters.
Rather, what we have been witnessing is a power struggle between factions of the “Old Guard” clergy who all initially assumed power in 1979. As that dispute is settled over the coming months, we can expect big changes in the top ranks of the power elite. But the Revolution is not about to implode.
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