International actors would welcome failure of the Iranian revolution

Gábor Miklós writes in the left-liberal daily Népszabadság that many international actors will welcome the failure of the Iranian protest movement. "The short-lived rekindling of the revolution in June has not changed the world. … The Russian press, for instance, seemed uneasy about the whole thing right from the start. In recent days this unease has culminated in the following thesis: The West has failed yet again with a 'coloured revolution'. … Naturally, in large sections of the Arab world there was a sigh of relief. … The Western public has watched the events in Iran with great interest and empathy. Nonetheless I suspect that Western governments are relieved to see the revolt lose momentum. … A civil war in Iran would have driven oil and gas prices to astronomical heights. Not to mention the imponderabilities of security policy that a heavily armed Iran sinking into chaos would entail."

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