This picture is pretty close to what I think people perception of a National Strike is in Iran. They are wrong. It is as if I am trying to squeeze an elephant, through a small door.
The Iranian mind does not want to think out of the aggressive, confrontational box. The street marches put us on the wrong tracks.
But you kids insisted, and you made heros. I hated to see all that blood. But now what? The country is besieged by the Basij. It is as if the Russian army has moved in.
A National Strike is a concept that is used in the mind first, and then made into reality. We need to describe very fully its power, and its consequences to the other side. It is designed to change the nature of the other side to think it can talk to us and negotiate along civil lines.
The only time I will know that National Strike is working, is when the other side mentions it, and asks to talk to us.
Right here would be fine. Mr Mousavi is not part of this side of the equation. He is on the other side of the equation as well.
In the mean time, my task it to educate the people who are on this side of the equation, to act accordingly as you are not. And that is why you are where you are.
We are all part of the formula.
