As you won’t see any MSM coverage of the assault and you will on FOX, the incident will be further evidence that the former is little more than a propoganda arm of the Democrat Party.

Human Events is reporting that the couple were not wearing Sarah Palin pins as had been previously reported.

Although from a reliable ally website, Pitney’s yeoman’s efforts at in blogging events in Iran are legitimate. His question was poignant and summative. The President’s response certainly provided no comfort to the murderous regime and in fact clearly created seperated them from worldwide norms. The question will be whether or not he will create a consensus with political foes in the US by the strengthening of his message for Iran.

“Mousavi has no plans to hold a rally tomorrow or the day after tomorrow and if he decides to hold a rally it will be announced on his website,” the ally said.

Is this strategic? Not giving Gaurd Units and Barsji any certain location could be sound. The protestors remarkably could be using Tet Offensive principles.

UPDATE: Or are they?

5. Help the reformers and dissidents level the playing field in the battle of ideas.

Why Obama would fumble this historic opportunity?

A: I don’t think he is the only hope and the best option but I do think that’s what these people want and need right now. They can’t aim for a huge change and started marching against the Islamic republic of Iran, but they can get to the point they like with these changes and these small changes. Plus I think right now the issue is more how they’ve been treated and lied to and.. So they want there right back more than anything and in this process Moussavi has suddenly become the face and the leader. They voted for him and now they want their vote to be realized. I also think he is a bit different now, not that his way of thinking or ideas has totally changed and his super open minded person but he has changed, and I strongly believe his wife is the power behind all that.

Emphasis mine. There has been much mention of Moussavi’s wife. This communication gives weight to the argument that Moussavi does indeed represent change from the existing regime. It’s interesting to hear how many women are among the demonstrators.

These people are very brave and know that thie lives hang in the balance. There is some indication that elements of the military won’t fire upon the protestors. Is this more prevelant than the regime wants us to know.

Here are key points that GP learned in his interview with Kianoosh Sanjari and Benafsheh Zand-Bonazzi:

** Ayatollah Khomenei’s grand-daughter was arrested during a recent demonstration.

** The people of Iran will not forgive Barack Obama for siding with the evil regime.

** The protesters are communicating anyway they can. The regime has been trying to shut down communications. At the rally each day the protesters carry signs that announce the next rally. This is how they are communicating.

It was an honor to finally speak with Kianoosh Sanjari tonight.
I have been following his story since the time he was arrested and sent to Evin Prison in 2006.
What a great young man. What a hero.

It was fairly clear that Obama would go with his socialist agenda domestically, yet most observers didn’t predict the assault on private businesses. Most thought that Obama would back off on Iraq and increase our military presence in Afghanistan. The Gitmo closings and legal alterations for terrorist that make life easier for terrorists has exceeded what he said he would do.

Now Obama has his first real foreign policy test. And we have learned two things about Obama in his philosophies on the Middle East. One, he likes to lecture and use a perverted set of historical facts and moral ecquivelances. Second, he is no friend of Israel. And he has been diabolical in his methods. First he provided soothing assurances to American Jews and in a trip to Israel. Yet, while his rhetoric still emphasizes the “special relationship between the US and Israel,” his actions have been the opposite. First by endorsing the Saudi peace plan. Second. by warning Israel not to attack Iran. Third, his failure to recognize the history of Israel and instead advancing a false timeline that favors the argument of those who desire “driving it into the sea.”

So in the young presidency of Obama, folks are beginning to draw the conclusion that there is a clear distinction between what he says and what he does. Is it going similarly here? Does his lack of support for for the Iranian protestors mean he favors the Mullahs and their lust for nuclear weapons? Why? Is it because he needs Ahmadenijah for his grand bargain? And does this grand bargain somehow involve Israel? Besides his words, which have been shown to be empty, nothing in Obama’s past or associations indicates he is remotely supportive of the Jewsih state. Why would he start now?

There is indeed great disagreement among experts in the region. Amir Taheri makes some distinctions that have to be considered:

The rigged election has highlighted a three-way split within the regime:

* One faction — call it “the bitter-enders” — still believes that nothing has changed, that it can continue with Ahmadinejad’s agenda for “preparing the world for the return of the Hidden Imam.”
* A second faction, effectively led by former President Hashemi Rafsanjani and now including Mir Hussein Mousavi (the top losing candidate in the presidential election), hopes to keep the regime intact by softening its image at home and abroad and moving toward a Chinese-style system in which tight political control is combined with economic liberalization.

* A third faction believes that the entire Khomeinist system has passed its sell-by date and that Iran is ripe for regime change in the same way that the Soviet bloc countries were in the late 1980s. This faction is led by people like former Interior Minister Abdallah Nuri (a mid-ranking cleric), former rector of Tehran University Muhammad Abbas Sheybani and former members of parliament like Mahmoud A’alami and Imadeddin Baqi.

It now seems likely that Mehdi Karrubi — a mullah who was another of the three losing candidates — may also be joining them. In a statement published in Tehran yesterday, Karrubi claimed that Khamenei’s nomination as “Supreme Guide” in 1989 had also been “a fruit of fraud” — an implicit call for him to step down.

The rigged election has also split the military. The third losing candidate was Gen. Mohsen Rezai Mir-Qaed — who led the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for 16 years.

Rezai’s humiliating defeat — in an election widely viewed as rigged — has angered many Guard officers, who see him as something of a father figure. Defense Minister Gen. Mustafa Muhammad Najjar has praised Ahmadinejad in public — but the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Ali Jaafari, has maintained a meaningful silence. More, he has refused to send in Guard units to crush demonstrations in Tehran and 16 other major cites.

Since Ahmadinejad owes his ascent to support from the military-security establishment, any split in the Guard and its allied organs could spell trouble now.

Some compare the current popular unrest with the riots that shook Iran during Muhammad Khatami’s presidency. But there are a number of key differences:

* Khatami was not as unpopular personally as Ahmadinejad is. Thus, Khatami was always able to act as a bridge between protestors and the “authorities.”

* Back then, Khamenei managed to stay above the fray — thus preserving the system’s prestige, if not any actual popularity. This time, he has (for reasons hard to fathom) jumped in the ring in support of Ahmadinejad.

* Today, some heavyweights of the regime are siding with the protestors — shattering the unity of the Khomeinist establishment in the face of a popular challenge. With every day that passes the number of dignitaries declaring support for Ahmadinejad declines — while the number of those calling for his dismissal increases.

* This protest movement isn’t limited to students in major cities. There are numerous reports of unrest in small towns and villages across the country. In some places, like Marivan and Gohar-Dasht, people have attacked government offices, burning the portraits of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad and seizing control of ballot boxes.

However the current struggle turns out, the regime has lost a good part of its legitimacy. It is also made clear that peaceful evolution within the regime is not possible. This makes the “regime change” option attractive for the first time since the mid-1990s.

If Taheri is correct and that Mousavi is for softening Iran’s stances abroad, its good news. However, the experts do not agree here. Some say that Mousavi is meerly is the same devil is different clothing. This must be what Obama’s staff is telling him and might be why he’s holding back. If this is the reason his position is defensible.

Nonetheless the US State Department got TWITTER to hold off on shutting down for maintenance. This is a hedge bet that Taheri could be right. Some sort of signal from either Revoltionary Gaurd commanders or Mousavi would get the WH to increase its supporting rhetoric.

If he remeians silent under these circumstances, the worst fears of his leftism will be realized.

H/T American Thinker