Here is a case of a technical/first-order change where the basic rules were not changed when the revolution occurred. The result was a governing process that increasingly seems to look like that of the overthrown government.
From the New York Times, 2/3/10. Mir Hussein Moussavi, responding to the announcement by the Irnanian rulers that they would hang 9 protesters.
"The majority of people believed in the beginning of the revolution that the roots of dictatorship and despotism were abolished. I was one of them, but now I don't have the same beliefs. You can still find the elements and beliefs that lead to dictatorship."
The article went on to say that Mr Moussavi said he did not believe that the revolution had achieved its goals.
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