pdq - Liberalism in Iran would equate to people who don't want to do everything according to what the Mullahs say, who aren't religious extremists, and who favor western clothing styles and social freedoms.

Are you saying that would be a bad thing? It is Iranian conservatives who are the deadly enemies of American conservatives...and American conservatives are the deadly enemies of just about everybody in the whole rest of the world at this point (but specially of Islamic or Communist conservatives). Conservatives fight wars against other conservatives as a matter of course, because wars are their bread and butter. ;-)

Face it, man. Conservatives in any society are often very dangerous f*ckers. They believe strongly in fighting wars and taking massive retaliation on people by deadly force as the quick solution to everything. They're also big on jails, expanded police powers, execution, torture, all that sort of nice stuff. Kill, kill, kill! It's the conservative way of making us all safe. Just ask Clint Eastwood.