an interesting article about Iran:

a whispered message from Isfahan (from: GUARDIAN)

If you see it at first hand, you will have no doubt that this is a very nasty and dangerous regime. ...
let's have none of those confused and/or dishonest apologetics on the European left that, out of hostility to American policy, try to pretend that the other side (Pol Pot, Brezhnev, Saddam) is not half as bad as Washington says it is. ...
Now it's right to say that the Iranian mullahs run a very nasty regime and that it would be a huge mistake to bomb them....
many Iranians, especially among the two-thirds of the population who are under 30, hate their regime much more than we do....
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a reckless leader, but there are many other Mahmouds in Iran. We must listen to them. In the end, it's they, not we, who will change their country for the better.

Wolfgang