"Total Oppression State"

Iran, says Walid Phares, which is just another way of saying that the mask the American Left has been festooning on the mullahgarchy for thirty years is pretty much only persisting in fooling them anymore.  On the other hand, how much even short-term PR damage to the Tianenman Square massacre twenty years ago do the the ChiComms?

And no, Dr. Phares was not referring to the United Soviet Socialist Republics of Obamerika, but only because the mullahs had that three decade head start.