Riots in Iran, Tehran Saturday, June 13, 2009

There are riots in the streets of Tehran tonight after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was 're-elected' yesterday. The government announced this morning that Ahamdinejad had won yesterday's election, even though all the polls showed otherwise.

If anyone other than Obumbler were in power in the US, I would say this is the best result possible for the West, because it's the result that's most likely to convince the Iranian people to rise up against the Mullahs.

But given that Obama is trying to 'engage' the Iranian regime (and many reports in the US are talking about how this will 'complicate' that 'engagement') and may not back an uprising by the Iranian people, things may not be so simple.