The Uncertain Path Forward for Iran

From Tehran to Tabriz, from Los Angeles to London, Iranians are in collective shock, even traumatized by the Islamic Republic’s lethal suppression of recent protests that has claimed thousands of lives. But the profound shock and trauma must not make us oblivious to reality or leave us paralyzed by wishful thinking.  

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What unfolded in Iran on Jan. 8 and 9 will be remembered as the moment when the Islamic Republic made a lethal choice. What began as peaceful...