I heard him speaking last week on The Guardian podcast, and he was very dismissive of the protest movement. Fair enough, i thought, most of us didn't expect such an impressive display of defiance.
Then every day i seem to be reading articles by him saying how the movement is finished, like this today:
A deadly crackdown on opposition demonstrators appeared tonight to have punctured the most serious protest movement in Iran since the 1979 revolution, as an eerie quiet settled on Tehran and the regime turned its attention to more familiar enemies overseas.
Protesters who have shaken the authorities by venting anger en masse at the "stolen" elections that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office spoke of a hiatus, even a despair, settling on the movement
This seems to echo the dubious email he passed to the Guardian blogger Mark Tran yesterday, saying that everyone had given up.
Then yesterday he also reported a false report of many dead in a metro bombing.
Now he's on the blog again:
Robert Tait, the Guardian's former Tehran correspondent, wonders whether pro-Mousavi supporters are running out of ideas.
This despite confirmation that there's a mourning demo this afternoon -backed by Karroubi - which is a direct challenge to the authorities again, that a series of strikes is about to be announced, etc...
So is Robert Tait just out of touch or something else?
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