How does one respond to an unpopular tyranny who is threatening to start a war? Do you try to encourage them to reform, with soft words and promises to help if they turn to cooperation? Or do you be blunt and articulate the idea that unjust government must reform, because freedom lives in the hearts of men, and without freedom a government will not stand?
That is the dilemma facing President Obama.
In Iran, you have a government that stole the election. This is not an opinion, but a fact. Many people reported seeing boxes of fake ballots added to the regular ballot boxes. Then there were the numbers: the government winning in areas that usually backed the opposition.
That is why the students, with many of the public, took to the streets after the last election, only to be confronted with armed “revolutionary guards” who assaulted and arrested them.
Since then, things have been quiet, with small demonstrations on and off. But behind the scenes are rumors of high ranking clerics and politicians, even those who support an Islamic republic, who are unhappy about those who stole the election.
If there is a change in government now, it could be peaceful, with a transition rather than a revolution leading to civil war.
So the demonstrations showing opposition to the government have not stopped.
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