That is my understanding.I think what Bill Clinton was trying to say there is that the Iranian people want reform . . . Bill Clinton was praising the younger more progressive Iran.
That would be logical - but it's Bill Clinton we're talking about. Reread the article; your take is backwards. He explicitly promotes the mullahocracy and slanders the US. His speech is remenescent of nothing so much as Jane Fonda touring a North Vietnamese prison camp and putting prisoners in a bind where they had to either seem to agree with their captors - or get themselves tortured.
Exactly and well put.