The Iranian theocracy's downfall is a goal worth working toward, writes ReuelMGerecht.
Protesters attend a demonstration after authorities raised gasoline prices, in the northern city of Sari, Iran, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019.ate is sometimes kind to America.
For 20 years, the pattern has remained: Tehran advances and we look the other way, defaulting to diplomacy, sanctions, or one but not the other to slow the speed and range of further progress. Occasionally, Washington threatens something more severe, always letting the clerical regime know that the military option is, like water in a mirage, just over the horizon.
This doesn’t necessarily mean that Washington needs to embrace some massive effort to topple the mollahs. Whatever the United States does to aid the Iranian people — if it can decide to do anything at all — needs to have bipartisan support, especially if any aspect of that aid is clandestinely delivered. The age of large-scale CIA covert-action programs is probably past. Bipartisan support on the critical committees inis obligatory if any program of scale is to take off and last.
The second fundamental is this: an Iranian democracy would be a blessing for the Middle East. Its arrival could well produce a bigger shock wave than the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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