Duped by Ahmadinejad

A number of pundits are commenting on Ahmadinejad's diversionary tactics, which not only cost him a place to stay in New York but also -- more importantly -- are distracting everyone else from addressing a crucial point: his illegitimate reelection and the grave human rights violations that followed. I've commented on Ahmadinejad's futile attempt to distract his own people with a massive we-hate-the-Jews rally, but the rest of the world doesn't seem to be listening. Melody Moezzi writes:

What is likely, however, is a continued crackdown on opposition leaders, activists and journalists inside Iran. The international community would be better served to concern itself more with these internal Iranian developments than with uranium enrichment today because the best hope for a non-nuclear Iran is a free Iran.

And the greatest assets the world has in ridding the country of hard-liners such as Ahmadinejad are the Iranian people themselves. Foreign intervention, military or otherwise, cannot hold a candle to the potential power of the Iranian people to bring down this regime.

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