United Against the Ruling Mullahs

The Iranian Student Movement Up to the Minute Reports ^ | July 23, 2003 | The Wall Street Journal

[Pan_Yans Wife]

United Against the Ruling Mullahs

July 23, 2003 The Wall Street Journal Review & Outlook

The pronouncements of America and Europe on the Middle East have sometimes seemed a tale of two policies. The U.S. brought freedom to Iraq even as Dominique de Villepin led France in Saddam's defense; the U.S. quarantined Yasser Arafat even as Brussels continued to have dealings with him; the U.S. attempted to isolate Iran even as Paris and sometimes even London pursued a fruitless policy of engagement.

This history of disagreement makes it all the more encouraging that, at least on the question of how to deal with the tyrants in Tehran, America and the EU are moving closer together.

The most recent signs of a trans-Atlantic meeting of minds came Monday. President George W. Bush escalated the war of words with Iran's ruling mullahs, saying from his Texas ranch that the U.S. "will not tolerate" Iran's constructing a nuclear weapon. At his side stood Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi -- who has just assumed the rotating presidency of the EU, and who is an unabashed supporter of Mr. Bush's Middle East policy.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

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[Montfort]

Let me see. A system where the legislature and executive can do the will of the people up to a point, but a few unelected folks in black robes can overturn anything that offends them.

Is this system Iran or the United States?