Anti Danish cartoons' rallies turn into fiasco for the regime

SMCCDI (Information Service):

An Islamist crowd, composed mainly by Bassij Para-military force's members, smashed windows and threw several petrol bombs and pieces of rocks at the Austrian and Danish embassies in Tehran.

The organized rallies were intending to show, what was supposed to be, the massive indignation of Iranians over the publication of cartoons depicting the Islamic Prophet Mohammad. But despite all supports from governmental circles and advertisements made by Mosques related to the theocratic regime, which had called for a massive participation, the demonstrators stayed under 400 individuals while the Iranian Capital has over 12 millions of inhabitants. READ MORE

The regime's regular Law Enforcement Forces made a show of resistance in facing the Islamists. The scenario was to fill the lack of Iranians "collective indignation" while showing, as well, some aspect of challenges for foreign journalists reporting from Iran.

This lack of popular support, for fanatical ways of expression and some of the political goals of the Islamic regime, is much more significant, as; it's coinciding with the Shia ritual of Moharam month and the Ashura mourning. By Islamists believe, Iranians should have been more sensible to any parameter which might affect their religion, but the today's event showed that this is not the case, contrary to many other majoritary Muslim nations.

The today's fiasco, for the clerics, marks the unpopularity of the ideological pillars of the Islamic republic regime and shows better the increasing secular aspiration of Iranians. It also proves Iranians sense of respect for the freedom of expression, while many of them might have their objection to the published cartoons.

It also underlines how Iranians are rejecting any call to attack any diplomatic mission, contrary to a terrorist regime which its leaders saw, in the seizure of the US Embassy and the hostage taking of American diplomats, a "second revolution".