Iranian Democrats Establish a United Front

Eli Lake of the NY Sun reports on the new call for unity among Iranians.

In an interview with The New York Sun, a founder of the new front, which comprises the major student groups as well as leading lawyers and activists inside the country, said organizers this week began fanning out across the country to collect the names of fellow citizens for a petition supporting changes to the constitution to allow a referendum.

"We think this is a good step that all the opposition groups are united in one direction, the direction of the referendum," Mohsen Sazegra said in a telephone interview from London. "As far as I know, this is a unique event. All groups from monarchists to republicans, from left to right are now behind us and they support the referendum movement." ...

Perhaps most important though, the new unified front includes the Islamic student organizations active in the country's universities. ...

So concerned have the mullahs been about the Web site, that they have blocked access to it inside the country, borrowing a tactic from communist China. more

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