From the U.S. based Iranian scholar Behzad Yahgmaian, some optimistic updates:

The presidential election of June 12, which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared to have won, gave birth to a grassroots movement that has been evolving politically, embracing broader segments of the population, discovering new methods of struggle, and refusing to die despite widespread government violence.

It has bewildered the conservatives, surpassed the political limits of the reformists, and become a wildcard with a potential to change Iran in profound ways.

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What was once a movement of young and modernised middle-class youth has become truly multi-generational. It includes the modern and the traditional, the Muslim, and the secular, the old and the very young. The Green Movement is everywhere. It appears like a spectre, becomes invisible, and returns.

In a middle school in Tehran, students defied their principals and refused to chant against America. “They were saying ‘Marg bar Amrica’ (Death to America) from the loudspeakers, but the students were chanting ‘Marg bar Dicatator’ (Death to the dictator),” said a jubilant 13-year old student. The principal had asked students to bring balloons with “Death to America” written on them. “The students instead came with green balloons that said ‘Death to the Dictator’,” she said.

The generation that toppled the government of the Shah in 1979 was ideological. Moved by anger and hatred, it sought revenge. The young participants in the Green Movement are, however, creating a non-violent movement for social change. They are joyous, and guided by the longing for a better and more open life. Theirs is a movement for joy.

They fight not for isolation from the rest of the world, but inclusion and coexistence. And, once again, Iranian children are setting an example. The twelve year old daughter of a manual labourer challenged a teacher who asked her to step on an American flag before entering the classroom.

“People of another country love this flag. Why should I disrespect them?” she told her teacher. She and others are the face of a new Iran in the making.