Iran’s Ominous Social Movement
January 27th, 2010
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The Iranian protest as a social movement The mounting protest against the Islamic Republic in Iran is in the process of becoming a social movement. Sidney Tarrow, a specialist on the subject, defines a social movement as collective challenges (to elites and authorities) by people with common purposes and solidarity in sustained interactions with elites, [...]