After yesterday's brutal crackdown on protesters in Iran-and with opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, reportedly under house arrest, continuing to issue defiant statements on his website-this New Republic piece on the history of popular protest in the country makes for sobering reading.
This brutality and oppression must not be allowed to go unpunished. Someday (hopefully very soon) there will be a reckoning for all these goons, thugs, flunkies, autocrats and dictators. God willing....