That's what I was asking, flee where? Not the kind of get on a plane out of the country flee, more of a skip over the border 'flee'.
I listened to it again and from what I could gather she didn't say if, she said "people are preparing".
There's still several articles going around saying that it's on a knife edge and could go either way.
This one written by Mark LeVine for Al Jazeera English from yesterday, for example, gave me pause for thought...
Iran on the BrinkIn 15 years of writing about the Middle East, I have never encountered a situation that changed so fast that one could write an article that becomes outdated in the time it takes to write it.
It seems that the Iranian elite has been caught similarly off-guard, and is still trying to read its own society to understand how broad is the societal discontent reflected in the mass protests.
This calculus is crucial - in some ways more so than whether the results are legitimate or, as some claim, electoral fraud.
It will determine whether the Iranian power elite - that is, the political-religious-military-security leadership who control the levers of state violence - moves towards negotiation and reconciliation between the increasingly distant sides, or moves to crush the mounting opposition with large-scale violence.
A lot depends on what the elite thinks is actually happening on the ground, and why the alleged fraud unfolded as it did.
Full article:
http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/06/200961781431119985.htmlBy the way, do you know what these doctors and nurses are saying at a protest they carried out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN7-wmo_DLo(edited to fix typo)