Biden Must Not Squander His Iran Moment

There are steps the U.S. government can take to support the protests and advance our national interest.

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Left: President Joe Biden at the White House, August 22, 2021. Right: Poeple protest the death of Maha Amini in Tehran, Iran, September 19, 2022.

Joshua Roberts/Reuters; WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters

The Iranian regime is in trouble. It finds itself amid the largest mass demonstration against its rule in decades and a complete breakdown in public order triggered by the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police after she was arrested for the “offense” of removing her headscarf in public.

Thousands have taken to the streets seeking a change in what has become a nightmarish theocratic dystopia, rivaled only by the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Some have gone as far as to call for the regime’s downfall.

Bobby Miller

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Bobby Miller

Bobby Miller is an ISI Fellow at National Review and a graduate student at Georgetown University.

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