IND:  This is a fantastic piece by Mr. Makmalbaf.  An absolute must read.

At the time of the election it is said that Mojtaba, the son of supreme leader Khamenei, told Ahmadinejad that if it engineered a coup d’état, the government would be criticised for one week, but after that would be safe for four years.

At the time he did not imagine that criticism and opposition would continue, even six months after the election.

Two weeks after the coup, Mojtaba Khamenei said to the revolutionary guards that supporters of Mousavi were just cowardly punks and that if you take out your batons and tear gas they will run to their homes. Again the reality turned to be different. Despite all the imprisonments, arrests, torture and even rape in political prisons – all in the name of God and the Islamic Republic – the green movement still brings out masses of protesters against the religious dictatorship on the days it decides to do so.

Six months ago Khamenei could not have imagined that the green movement would impinge on his own household with his daughter-in-law, Soosan Kharazi, seeking divorce from his son Masoud in support of the green movement and in opposition to him.

Six months ago Khamenei would not have believed that 8,000 of the 20,000 employees of the ministry of intelligence would support the green movement and that he would have to make them redundant.

During these six months people across the world understood that Iranians do not like Ahmainejad and neither do they want nuclear weapons. People in streets scream the slogan: “Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, I die for Iran”. They scream: “The green national government doesn’t want nuclear weapons” and “Peace for the world and democracy for Iran”.

Today the Iranian people are showing their full support for peace in the world. Now it is Obama’s and western governments’ turn to pay more attention to the green movement as opposed to the government installed by a coup, which is on the verge of collapse.