FREEDOM FOR IRAN PING
You are being an optimist. The only hope in Iran is the imposition of external force to remove the police state that has complete control over the population.
Allies under control of a fanatical regime are unreliable and ineffective. Iranians are sending suicide bombers to Iraq, yet to the best of my knowledge not one has sent him or her self to Tehran in opposition to the regime.
These stories are designed to give the west hope of internal change while the regime develops long range delivery systems for their nuclears.
I remember thinking while I was in the midst of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" how naieve the leftist student revolutionaries were. How they ignored all the signs their uprising had turned towards a terribly wrong victor.