In the beginning of protests against Iran’s June election results, knowledgeable pundits warned that Iran’s political establishment needed to avoid making martyrs, because of seven-day and 40-day post-death memorials, the latter being especially potent in Shi’ite Islam.br /br /Well, that’s if such memorials happen. The Iranian government forbade a public 40-day memorial for Neda, and a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/world/middleeast/31iran.html"brutally dispersed/a an unofficial one.br /br /Meanwhile, the police reportedly found an underground network of contacts for outside media and shut it down. But, Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri, looking back to 1979, said that won’t be enough to stop the movement.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-2049731468549906109?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div
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