Developments continue to come out of Iran at a furious pace. We're keeping up on all the latest news about the protests here at the CBN Newsroom in D.C. You can watch my story from today's 700 Club--about how tech-savvy young Iranians are using Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites to defy the regime and mobilize in the streets--by
clicking here. In addition, I attended a
fascinating briefing yesterday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that examined whether the Iranian regime can survive the current unrest. The panelists--including a founding member of Iran's Revolutionary Guards who is now a fierce critic of the regime--seemed to think that the regime will weather the current storm and tighten its grip--but not before some serious inter-regime bloodshed. Think
Night of the Long Knives, Persian-style, with the hardliners--led by Ahmadenijad, the Supreme Leader and the military/intelligence complex--emerging victorious and adopting an even more bellicose stance towards America and Israel. In the meantime, the Revolutionary Guards are reportedly preparing for
a massive rally tomorrow in Tehran that has been called by opposition leader Meir Hussein Mousavi. This may get very ugly very quickly. We've already seen deadly violence carried out by Iranian security forces and the regime's Basilj militia in recent days. If the regime feels that it is truly losing its grip on power, Tianeman Square style-crackdowns may ensue, witrh many more brave, democratic-minded Iranians losing their lives in the struggle for freedom.