re: #304 Yashmak

What evidence is there that this would be the case? Moussavi participated in the startup of the nuclear programme in the first place. Why should we buy into the idea that he’d throw it under the bus if he were put in power?

I tend to agree with Mr. Krauthammer most of the time, but on this, we part ways.

He said *IF* the successor regime was as moderate as the pre-Khomeinist one this would happen.

I don’t think its a foregone conclusion that it would be, but it certainly wouldn’t be any worse. (Though I do think that if there werer TRULY free elections in Iran, the inevitable shift would be towards moderation).

Further, *IF* Mousavi were actually empowered now, that would be a mandate for change. That alone would weaken the Mullahs.