The New York Times is reporting that top Iranian reform leaders have confessed their treasonous desire to topple the government with a “velvet revolution”. Velvet revolution is the term used to describe the non-violent movement that overthrew Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989. The reform leaders confessed to taking “training courses” outside the country (bolstering the governments claim that the unrest was the result of foreign intervention).
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Ahmadinejad and his fundamentalist cronies are doing their darnedest to blame the west for the unrest in their nation right now but thankfully, the current administration has so far avoided the saber rattling that defined the last 8 years of foreign policy. Obama has instead calmly expressed his faith in democratic ideals and the right of Iranians to work out their own problems. A less interventionist US policy effectively weakens the Iranian government’s arguments. Threats of American military action would almost certainly lead to a weakening of the opposition as parties unite patriotically to fight the common enemy.
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