re: #16 Fozzie Bear

Well, there wasn’t an internet, cell phones, twitter, etc in 1979. There was just newspapers and TV stations, all controlled by the state.

This situation is radically different from Iran circa 1979.

Maybe so. Maybe not. The literacy rate in Egypt is around 60%. That leaves a lot of folk who aren’t much into the internet and twitter. The Iranian regime mobilized a street army, sort of like the early Nazi brownshirts, drawn from a similar demographic. And Iran, then, was better educated than Egypt is now.

Maybe the differences are key and the similarities are superficial. There is, after all, no Khomeini on the scene this time. We’ll see, I guess.