Middle East
Showcase Iran, Beyond Stereotype
The Hinge of History
What if the vast protesting crowd of perhaps three million people had turned from Azadi (Freedom) Square toward the presidential complex? What if Mir Hussein Moussavi, the opposition leader, had stood before the throng and said, Here I stand with you and here I will fall? What, in short, if Azadi had been Prague s Wenceslas Square of 20 years ago and Moussavi had been Vaclav Havel?