Yet courageous and dignified overtures to the U.S. by Green Movement activists have been snubbed by the Obama administration. The administration has avoided discussion about the prospects for liberalization in a country that exports radical Islamist ideology throughout the Middle East and beyond. In regressive realpolitik fashion, it has grown increasingly reticent about the Iranian people’s struggle for human rights, apparently viewing it as irrelevant to U.S security interests. Rather than bolstering the opposition at a time when the Iranian regime is at its weakest, America is pursuing a policy of appeasement.

Jeg er tilbøjelig til at være enig. På kort sigt er en konfrontation måske ikke ønskværdig, men kun en demokratisk udvlikling i Iran kan sikre de amerikanske (og europæiske) interesser på langt sigt – for slet ikke at tale om det iranske folks interesser.