Pivotal day in Iran
Thursday marks the 31st anniversary of the coalescing of Iran’s Islamist revolution. But on this deeply symbolic day, which Tehran usually spends glorifying its militant, tyrannical rule, millions of Iranian citizens will likely attempt another show of mass defiance and repudiation of the regime.
That’s precisely what Tehran fears. It fears having its veneer of popular endorsement torn away altogether. Witness its preemptive crack down. Critics and student activists have been rounded up and tossed in prison. Earlier this month, to build up the intimidation factor, the regime began executing dissidents. The IranTracker project is compiling a record of Tehran’s intimidation tactics in the run-up to the day. The list is horrifyingly long.

Over at AEI’s blog, Danielle Pletka
The Afghan government
“[I]f countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us,” Barack Obama
Bret Stephens at the WSJ
It took Obama days before he dared say anything remotely negative about the Iranian regime’s crackdown on protesters. Then we got his
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