What Color is Your Revolution?

Michael Ledeen makes the case that Iran should be feared more as an exporter of terror than and exporter of technology. He suggests that the mullahs are teetering on the edge of the abyss of revolution.

“Our failure to support revolution in Iran is already a terrible embarrassment, and risks becoming an enormous catastrophe. Almost everyone who writes about the chances for revolution takes it for granted that it would take a long time to come to fruition. Why must that be so? The revolutions in countries like Georgia and the Ukraine seem to have erupted in an historical nanosecond. Nobody foresaw them, everyone was surprised. Who imagined the overnight success of the Lebanese people? How long did that take? The entire region is awash with revolutionary sentiment, and nowhere more than Iran. Why assume — because no one can possibly "know" such things — that it would take a long time?”

The Rose Revolution of Georgia was sparked by the losing side of a rigged election. Similarly, the Orange Revolution came upon the heels of widespread electoral fraud. In Iran, thousands of candidates were disqualified by the guardian counsel. But calls for a boycott of the election were largely ignored and nearly 63% of the electorate showed up to vote in the populist, Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad with 62% of the vote. The Iranians peoples chance seems to come and gone. Perhaps they are mere victims of tyranny.

So what can be done to foment the Pistachio Revolution?