WSJ reports:
Is Tehran’s lunatic theocracy on the verge of collapse? Columnist David Warren thinks so. “Iran has come to the boil,” he writes. “Against the background of huge public demonstrations, the reformist party that controls the largest block of seats in the elected but largely powerless Iranian Parliament [Wednesday] threatened to walk out, if the ayatollahs continued to stall measures for social and political change.”
Bush has even given an impressive (and completely unreported) speech on the subject:
The people of Iran want the same freedoms, human rights, and opportunities as people around the world. Their government should listen to their hopes.
In the last two Iranian presidential elections and in nearly a dozen parliamentary and local elections, the vast majority of the Iranian people voted for political and economic reform. Yet their voices are not being listened to by the unelected people who are the real rulers of Iran. Uncompromising, destructive policies have persisted, and far too little has changed in the daily lives of the Iranian people. . . .
There is a long history of friendship between the American people and the people of Iran. As Iran’s people move towards a future defined by greater freedom, greater tolerance, they will have no better friend than the United States of America.
I think you’ll see the democratization of Iran before that of Cuba, but I expect both to be soon.
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