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I believe Wretchard and others have made the point that by not sharply criticizing the rigged election and following brutality, that Buraq Hussein has given the Iranian Regime “permission” to crack heads and murder innocents. What Buraq did not say is code for ” go right ahead- brutality suppress this uprising, we will look the other way”.

Ed at Hot Air is asserting that the Regime is relying more and more on the Revolutionary Guards to the extent that the Regime will resemble more a military dictatorship and less a theocracy from here on. His thinking is that the more liberal mullahs, the followers of Sistani and other Grand Ayatollahs, will be pushed aside. In any case, we are more likely to see a “hardened” regime that is far less open to criticism or negotiations, and far more encouraged to take further aggressions as a result of Buraq’s foolishly weak response. Buraq has effectively given the Regime the “green light” for more thuggery.