Iran : révolte ou révolution ?

Les manifestants opposés à Ahmadinejad ne semblent pas animés par un désir de "révolution" mais simplement par le souhait d’un Iran démocratique, dans le cadre des institutions héritées de la révolution islamique de 1979.

De la même façon que la culture fondamentalement anti-américaine des origines de la révolution iranienne est devenue obsolète, le rêve d’une nouvelle "révolution" n’est pas à l’ordre du jour dans les rues de Téhéran. "People are not calling for a wholesale revolution as they were in 1979. I’m not hearing the word enqelab, i.e. revolution, mentioned by the protestors. There exists a political maturity now that didn’t exist then. People don’t have the same naïve, utopian dreams that they had in 1979. They want a system that is representative of the people. Many people believe that the Islamic Republic does have important institutions, such as the institution of the presidency and parliament. But what they want to see is the unelected institutions, which currently have the majority of the constitutional authority, to be either removed or their authority seriously limited" (source : Karim Sadjadpour, interviewé par le Council on Foreign Relations).