Michael J Totten (via Global voices online) quotes from the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski's Book Shah of Shahs on the beginning of the end of the Shah Reza Pahlavi.
Now the most important moment, the moment that will determine the fate of the country, the Shah, and the revolution, is the moment when one policeman walks from his post toward one man on the edge of the crowd, raises his voice, and orders the man to go home. The policeman and the man on the edge of the crowd are ordinary, anonymous people, but their meeting has historic significance.
The similarities are striking in the reports that we have seen from Iran over the weekend.Whether the outcome will be the same is another matter
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