World Citizen: In Iran, Stage Set for Uprising and Violence

World Citizen: In Iran, Stage Set for Uprising and Violence

By: Frida Ghitis | Column

Historians will eventually gain a fuller understanding of what propelled the 2011 Arab Rebellion, and why decades of pent-up anti-government rage exploded at precisely this moment. But what we have learned so far suggests that the revolution, like a wildfire on dry brush, will continue to spread. And just as flames leap over a highway, it will in all likelihood make the jump across the Persian Gulf into Iran.