Well, you may not see this on FOX or CNN cause I'm sure they'll just show the same, tired, old videos where they yell "Death to America," but I think this story is whorth sharing.

Personally I think it should be headline news... but hey, I'm not a media-mogul.


Thought I should stress the "youths" part...

The US can work with this. They can also work with the Democratic protests in Pakistan, Tibet and Myanmar...

... but I'm sure we won't.

Abraxas

How the US can work with this? Sent them a postcard?
Seriousely what the US can do with youths and protestors? There is nothing they can do.

Never these groups wil be able to overthrow these regimes. Sending them money will make things even worse as they will be seen as "puppets of the US".

What Iran needs is two millions of poeple in the streets and an general push for regime change. As long as a large part of the population believe supertitiousely that mullahcracy is good because it protect morality, there is no hope.
As long as one third of the Iranian population are behind Ahmadinejahd and the radicals, nothing will change there.
What they need is 90% asking for change.

Iran holds the US presidency right now. Tehran can sink McCain in bad news that will make the notion "the surge has worked" a sarcasm. McCain is very lucky that Iranian mullahs are unbelievably peaceful people who refuse to use Iraqis as gunmeat to kill Americans. For all practical reasons, Iran has decisive word in the US election. Iran has every ability to sink McCain like an old rusty battleship by creating a derisive background for Cain's militaristic patriotic sy(m)phony.

Akh, I agree with that. But the question was not "How not to nerve right-wing powers in Iran" but "How to help anonymous 18 years old demonstrators who are not grouped into an organisation listed as official partner for the CIA and who don't even have a headquarter in the US?"

The answer to this question, for the amricans is "We can't do that.".

I agree.
Kosovo and Iraq qre shining exqmple of the bankrupcy of such policy.

It's unclear at this time how many Iranian fear the regime too much to protest, how many don't care and how many believe in the superiority of the Islamic moral (over decent living conditions)...

The best thing the USA can do if the USA wants to see some democratic improvements in Iran is to say the heck out. 

That means no CIA funding of opposition groups, no CIA covert games, no CIA involvement with exiles, and no US propaganda/disinformation campaigns in Iran.

These are the policies the USA are already using and so far have only managed to almost wipe out the 'reformist' faction in Iran and have fully entrenched the 'conservative' faction.

Democratic progress in Iran is limited by US actions.  So long as the US plays the warmonger game or the Iranian subversion game, Iran will swing 'conservative'.

I disagree with your assertion that Islamic clergy always want power. 

For example, the Grand Ayatollah of Iraq (Sistani) has formally stated that he doesn't want the clerics to rule in Iraq and this is the general policy amongst Iraqi Shi'ites, a position notably shared by Muqtada Sadr.

And Iran is officially the same - the clerics do not rule directly, only in an advisory capacity (officialy speaking).  Their outward power is reflected by the power of the 'conservative' faction in the elected legislature. 

The electoral strength of the 'conservatives' seems to rise or fall in direct proportion to the amount of animosity and covert political operations coming from the US.

The 'reformist' faction was rising in Iran throughout the 1990's after the Iran-Iraq war.  That's the opportunity the US government took to increase their engagement with Iranian exile groups and Iranian reform groups.  US support caused an immediate drop in support for the 'reformers' and a consequent rise in support for the 'conservatives'.  This trend continues to the present day.

If you're an American, please refrain from posting.

You're making us look stupid.