December 7, 2024

Where’s the Audacity to Hope for Iran?

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Despite reports of politically motivated arrests, police brutality, and at least one death, hundreds of thousands of people marched in Tehran, Iran today in protest over what they believe to be the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Barack Obama’s support for Iranians who want nothing more than to free themselves from tyranny should be firm and unwavering. Instead he’s failed to give the audacity of hope to an entire country.