Jeff Jarvis reports that the Iranian demonstrations were cancelled by the leaders of the student movement in the face of government threats of violence, but world-wide they’re still on.
UPDATE: Jerusalem Post reports the Iranians demonstrated anyway:
Shrugging off death threats by government paramilitary forces, tens thousands of Iranian students took to the streets Wednesday night, burning at least three government banks, calling for the country’s democratization and the death to its extremist leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini.
The demonstrations, banned by the Mullarchy, came on the 4th anniversary of 1999 pro-reform protests which triggered a violent regime crackdown, the death of one student and the arrest of thousands.
Opposition group leaders hailed Wednesday’s demonstrations the culmination of month-long anti-government activities as a deadly blow to the repressive regime, saying it edges Iran ever closer to a democratic revolution.
Good for them.