You know, the Guardian has the best correspondent in Tehran. His name is Robert Tait.

Iran crushes teachers’ pay protest Guardian – By Robert Tait in Tehran Mar 17, 2007 The authorities in Iran have arrested up to 1,000 teachers in a brutal crackdown that signals their determination to break a pay revolt. Riot police beat demonstrators with batons as they tried to gather outside Iran’s parliament and education ministry and herded them into police vans and buses before transporting them to detention centres across Tehran.

And they’ve also got that terrific Tatchell guy who is one of the few Western columnists constantly calling attention to the repression of women in the Middle East, above all in Iran.

Eventually we will find several democratic revolutionaries on the Left, instead of only among the Neocons. Remind me: How is it that people who support democratic revolution are now called “conservatives”? While the “progressives” support the status quo of the Islamic fascist tyrants…