Khodam jaan, I've seen these comparissons between the situation in Iran and the civil rights movement as well as Apartheid previously and frankly, I have never understood them. Perhaps you can explain them to meb eyond what's my understanding now.
As far as I'm concerned the civil rights movement succeeded two centuries after the battle betweem democracy (and personal freedoms) and theocracy had already been won. It was not a movement that achieved reesults over night and it took decades and plenty of violence and "revolutionaries" to finally achieve the end goal.
The same goes for Apartheid. I mean the struggle against Apartheid had it all, protests, strikes, imprisonments, massacres and plenty of violence. What Iranians say when drawing this comparisson with Apartheid sounds to me like, we don't want imprisonments, we don't want violence, we don't want strikes, we don't want massacres, you know just the way Apartheid was brought down and by the way Gholi joon, throw in a koubideh into the euqation too!
I just don't get it.