New Protests Signal Iranian Opposition Weakening?

Because while today’s protests in memory of the 10th anniversary of the violence at Tehran University drew a lot of coverage from the Western media, it seems as if it didn’t draw very many Iranians.

From Time:

[...] the event failed to draw the huge crowds that had turned out to protest the June 12 election result, and numerous reports out of Iran suggest that the hundreds of protesters who took to the streets on July 9 were greeted with more brutality by the regime’s enforcers.

And what about Mousavi? Where does he fit into all of this?

[...] when defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi last week signaled his intention to form a political party to continue the election-protest movement through official channels, he was ignored by Iran’s official mass media and reduced to making the announcement on his personal website.

Long story short, it doesn’t look good for the opposition right now. Unless they start mounting some serious rallies and refuse to back down, the likelihood that they’ll make a dent in the regime is unlikely. Especially since Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has taken over the day to day national security operations and promise swift crackdowns on any dissent.

Here’s the question: What should the opposition do next?

(Photo: Reuters via Daylife)