CIAO DATE: 03/2010
February 2010
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
A few hours after the official demonstration marking the February 11 anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei stated, "Was the presence of tens of millions of motivated and aware people in the festival of the thirty-first anniversary of revolution enough to awaken [to their mistakes] the internal enemies and deceived individuals who sometimes hypocritically speak of 'the people'?" Khamenei had spent months worrying that the opposition Green Movement would hijack the anniversary.
Resource link: Setback for Iran's Opposition: Khamenei's Hardline Reinforced [PDF] - 13K