For years many have suggested that the best way to support reformers in Iran was for the U.S. to be silent, out of fear that American support would taint the reformers politically within Iran.
The Iranian regime's crackdown on dissidents this year in response to the rigged election has provided a test of that advice, and it has proven to be dead wrong. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, Iranian opposition leaders continue to press the Obama administration to support their cause publicly.
Tragically, Barack Obama has shown no sign of doing so. It turns out the big change Obama promised us in the 2008 presidential campaign has been to support dictators and undermine allies.
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