re: #1 tigger2005

All oppressive regimes are not created equal…even if more people were killed in the Egypt protests than the Iran protests last year, Iran is a more oppressive state than Egypt by several orders of magnitude. I’d say one reason the body count was lower (if in fact it was) may have been that the Iranian government has a greater capacity than Egypt (had) to control by fear. Also, Egypt is much more open and tied into the rest of the world than Iran…it’s a tourist mecca.

I’d be willing to venture the death toll in Iran was higher than reported, potentially much higher. How many people simply vanished into the prisons
in Iran? How many people will never come back out?