Ignore All the Iran Experts

Predictions about Iran are a dime a dozen these days. And that's exactly what they're worth.

BY CHARLES KURZMAN | JUNE 17, 2009

AFP/Getty Images Dja vu: The crowds in Iran look awfully familiar. And they're just as unpredictable as they were in 1978.

Troops are out in Iran this week, but in many cases the crowds have grown so large that the security forces are standing back and letting them swarm silently and peacefully through the boulevards -- just like in 1978.

Chants of Allah-o-akbar, God is great, reverberate from...

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