[LINK] Six Tunisia links

[rfmcdonald]

• Over at Demography Matters, I link to an interesting article whose author suggests that the age distribution of the Tunisian population suggests that democracy has a chance of taking off, but also a commenter who says that the author's definition of age groups is too broad.


• Open Democracy's Leila Ouardani thinks that democracy has a good chance of taking off in Tunisia, thanks to the alliance of progressives and moderate Islamists but also because of the strong human ties between Tunisia and democratic Europe.


• The close links between Francophone Tunisia and Québec has faciliated the flight of many of the family members of former President Ben Ali to Montréal. The Canadian government's unhappy, and the Tunisian government is demanding the extradition of one of the exiles.


• In fact, it turns out that the provisional Tunisian government is demanding the extradition of not only six Ben Ali family members but of Ben Ali himself. One almost hopes for his sake that the Saudis will refuse.


• Official Iran's worried about American interference in Tunisia.


• Finally, over at IWPR Ali Reza Asraghi doesn't think that the Tunisian model of revolution is applicable to Iran, mainly because power--economic, political--is diffused beyond a single family and the Green Movement couldn't get as broad a coalition as the Tunisians.

Go, read.