And Mousavi would be toast if President McCain had said that.
The 2003 protests in Iran were given a huge setback when Bush publicly backed them. I think Clinton made the same mistake in 1999. Suddenly what had been grassroots student protest movements were portrayed as foreign plots to take control of Iran. That change in perception made it a lot easier for the Mullahs to crack down.
People have to recognize that doing nothing is sometimes the best decision. George H.W. Bush made one of the best decisions in American foreign policy history in 1989/1990 when he chose to not get involved in the revolutions in Eastern Europe.
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