In so many ways, the scenes from Tehran look eerily familiar: the massive demonstrations full of idealistic young people demanding that their voices be heard; the equally massive show of force by the riot police, leading to at least 20 deaths, countless beatings, and hundreds of arrests; the wrenching images of a young woman bleeding to death after she was gunned down; the government's propaganda counteroffensive, blaming the unrest on nefarious foreigners and the international media; and the obligatory airing of the "confessions" of a few Iranians that they were "provoked" into going out into the streets by the BBC and the Voice of America.
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