Barack Obama must side with freedom in Iran

Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) ^ | February 6, 2010 | Nile Gardiner

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The coming week may prove another defining moment for Barack Obama on the world stage, and a major test of his failing leadership. As tens of thousands of anti-government demonstrators prepare to take to the streets of Tehran on February 11 in defiance of the security forces on the 31st anniversary of the Iranian revolution, the president will have to make it clear whose side he is on – the brutal Islamist dictatorship or dissidents fighting for their freedom. He can no longer sit on the fence as a dispassionate neutral observer. As the leader of the free world President Obama has a responsibility to speak out in support of those who are bravely laying down their lives in opposition to a dictatorship that has emerged as America’s most dangerous state-based threat.

Until now, the president has remained largely silent over the brutal suppression of the Iranian protesters, including the murder, rape, and beating of hundreds of men and women who have dared to speak out against the regime. He barely mentioned the Iranian protests in his State of the Union address, refused to condemn the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last June, and took days to issue a half-hearted statement when mass protests flared again last December. Even his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, who took a tough stance towards Tehran during her election campaign, has been almost as quiet as a trappist monk.

The Obama administration’s shameful appeasement of the Iranian regime has been a spectacular failure, which has significantly undermined Obama’s standing on the world stage and demonstrated the bankruptcy of his strategy of engagement. It is not too late however for the president to change course and show some backbone, both in confronting the mounting Iranian nuclear threat as well as by backing those bravely fighting

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