The Weakness of the Mullahs

Amazingly enough, it's oil, or, more specifically refinery capacity. Judith Klinghoffer blogs:

Maybe, just maybe, the Iranian people will rise and save themselves and us. It would be the best of solutions. Indeed, according to the MEHR news agency mere talk of sanctions led to the Majlis approving rationing in a close session and the subsequent riots:

Pointing to the U.S. Congress’s plan to pressure Iran by interfering with gasoline imports, he said that the country should reduce its international vulnerability by solving the country’s transportation problems, preventing fuel smuggling, and rationing gasoline using smart cards.

What if the Iranian authorities do the expected and ruthlessly suppress the riots? After all they have already started to attack reporters covering them. Well, limiting Iranian access to gasoline does not seem to have a down side in the worst of cases.

Debka says three protestors were killed.