A short, funny film about the thoughts of a growing boy about girls...absolutely fantastic and you should see this

-- The protests will grow. However, in absence of a clear direction, they will not have a defined strategy and organisation, making it easier for the government to crackdown on the protesters. However, this wont be fulfilled using the police and the Basij militia due to the sheer scale of the protests.
-- Government will try to clamp down by deploying the Revolutionary Guards. The interactions would get more violent.
-- The protesters will soon feel the need to have superior arms as compared to stones and kerosene they are using currently. Small groups of enthusiastic youngsters will try and make bombs and firearms.
-- Israel and US will try to supply arms and intelligence to some such groups. Israel, especially because it doesnt want a stable Iran. US has a lot of personnel in Iraq, wouldnt be difficult for them to slip a few Iraqis into Iran. Reports suggest Britain also has some hand in the protests.
-- The armed protesters will start targeting members of the so-called "Basij" militia, since they are the most easy targets. They are trying to do that even now, on a smaller scale.
-- The government clampdown will become more violent, and many Iranians will be killed.
-- There will be increasing international pressure on Iran to end the clampdown and have a rerun of the elections, this time with neutral observers.


This is where things get unpredictable. If Iran decides to hold re-elections Ahmedinijad would be very upset. This decision would also undermine the authority of Ayatollah Khomeini. The new government would be hostile to the Ayatollah. Given all these, it is unlikely that the elections will be held again.

If they are not held, several small militant groups will rise in Iran, making it unstable. The government crackdown on these militias will go on for a long time. However, international geopolitics will allow for some resistance groups to stay alive for a long time.

If you havent read the book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (which I have read 15 times, maybe more....and believe me, I am not counting!! ), you should. Its the most unimaginably imaginative and atrociously senseless book out there. Here are some gems from Douglas Adams books and around:

* He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

* I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

* It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

* Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

* Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

* Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.

* Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

* The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

* There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.

* You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

* Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.

* I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

* Arthur: 'It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to my mother.' Ford : 'Why, what did she say?' Arthur: 'I don't know, I never listened.

* Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules

* Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a piece of blank paper until your forehead bleeds

* The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

* “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”

* “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

* “It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.”

* "The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool. "

* "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."

* "The universe is a lot more complicated than you might think even if you start from a position of thinking that its pretty damn complicated to begin with."

* "This tastes almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea."

* "So long...and thanks for all the fish!"