IND:  After Feb. 11, it’s now all about organization, execution and reaching out to the working classes.  The Green leaders need to deliver on these three fronts.

Some in the movement are reassessing their strategy, considering moving away from street protests in the face of the crackdown. But they are struggling to find an alternative way to harness anger at Iran’s government.

“I don’t think we always have to pour into the streets to demand our rights,” said Mohammad Taqi Karroubi, son of a senior opposition leader, Mahdi Karroubi. Given the fierceness of the crackdown, “it’s natural that we don’t want people to pay a high price anymore.”

Several young opposition supporters who participated in Thursday’s scattered protests expressed dismay, speaking of a temporary defeat and saying the movement needed to strengthen and deepen its organization. Some criticized its loose leadership.

“If we had a strong charismatic leader we wouldn’t have marched in the streets dazed and confused yesterday,” one female university student told The Associated Press from Tehran. “I see the opposite side as the winner today. A temporary winner. …We don’t have a central command. We were like a broken chain, thrown all over.”

Another protester said, “We need a movement that will grow roots. Demonstrations are not going to take us anywhere. We need to make people aware, educate them culturally and socially.”

Widespread strikes — including at the state electricity and oil companies, radio and television stations, the Bazaar and most of the country’s factories — were one tactic used in the 1979 revolution. But it’s not clear if the present opposition can rally enough support among Iran’s laborers.

Publicly, leaders and organizers of the opposition inside and outside Iran are trying to put on a brave face.

“It is natural that the Green Movement will be silent for two or three days in order to take a critical look at itself so it can launch a more serious course,” said Mohammad Javad Akberein, an editor at the opposition Rahesabz Web site in Paris.

Still, she said, she will participate in what could be the next attempt at protests, in March to coincide with Chahar Shanbeh Soori, a traditional fire festival ahead of Iranian New Year celebrations.

Another protester, a 19-year-old student, said many fear the crackdown will get even harsher. He predicted that political pressure will increase, executions will continue and the climate will become even more “militaristic.”

But, he said, he and his friends will “remain reformists until the end of our lives.”