A woman assaulted a cleric in the holy Shi’ite city of Qom, home to seminaries and senior ayatollahs, knocking off his turban and stepping on it after he apparently warned her about her hijab.
The video of the incident went viral last year, with many praising the woman, while there was almost no sympathy for the cleric, who some said deserved the treatment.
This sort of grassroots resistance is encouraging and I wish the Iranian people success in toppling the Mad Mullahs.
However you have to wonder about a peoples willingness and ability to resist in light of Afghanistan.
A massive refugee problem could have been avoided if the Afghan people chose to fight. In a nation awash in weapons armed resistance should not be a problem.
Perhaps they got the nation they wished for.
