Interesting Times in Teheran

Sinologist Sam Crane concludes that "while on the street level Iran now looks like something less than the massive mobilization of China 1989, at the elite level it appears to be something considerably more" — Time to end the Tehran/Tiananmen comparisons. Specifically, "the elite opposition appears to run much deeper" and "the sides are more evenly matched than was the case in China in 1989."